go on....

Actually, this is kind of inaccurate, I don't think it's ever been "rebooted" per se. The May 9th Victory Day parade always happens, and it always has land vehicles, and always has aircraft.

Even in 1995 when Boris Yeltsin was in power, they still had all the tanks, all the missiles, everything on the square.

Your comment is obviously a joke. The exact translation is actually "The Great Fatherland War". I don't know why its called patriotic war. The war was not about patriotism. The war of patriotism, when when Mussolini goes to Africa and keeps the ass in Ethiopia to show the world how great of a nation Italians are (BTW,…

This article is full of misinformation. Russians have always been proud of WW2 victory and May 9th parade has ALWAYS been held at in the highest regard. It was NEVER thought of as being inappropriate. First paragraph says that it's been rebooted which is false. It's been held every single year for the last 69 years.…

Let's not forget the $5-billion U.S. investment via NGOs to destabilise and disrupt Ukraine government, economy and society.

I am not a fan of Putin, but every man who was a boy inside who used to play with little tank and soldier toys should be fascinated by this parade. So many toys.

Why not? Victory Day for Russia has the meaning of independence day. I think a loss against nazis would have possibly mean the annihilation of not only USSR and Russia, but also Russians or their enslavement. Nothing wrong with a military parade on such a day. You also have to take into account that it was patriotism…

Good point. I'd love to see stories about India, Pakistan and China.

They're not meant to be high tech invisible fighter jets. They're meant to be cheap, easy to repair and service, considering it's a slow low flying close air support aircraft, vulnerable to all kinds of land based air defense.

It's not like Nazi land-grab as the first or the last in the history of humanity. Ridiculous, politically motivated comparison.

I wouldn't worry if I was Russian. There are a few good leaders that could replace Putin after an abrupt death. For example, what about Medvedev, Shoigu, or Ivanov? A bigger worry would be if Putin slowly gets sick and ill but his elite refuses to relinquish power for many years, sort of like Brezhnev in the 70s or…

A10 can't fly without a complete dominance of the skies and a suppression of ground based air defense. I want to see the A10 fly through Russia's thick air defenses and also unmolested by air-to-air missiles fired from Mig-29 or SU-27 variants. F15 a decent match to Su-27. Who knows who'd win. Abrams is a nice tank…

So @ Tyler: is Foxtrot Alpha going to be a primarily Russian focused blog? Because, while there was the story about Iraqi F-16's and some stories about US special forces, most of your stories seem to be on Russia.

I misunderstood a certain portion of your statement but i still think russia doesn't cleanly swap in with pre war germany. I will admit its similar but I think conditions today are wildly different. Germany had a coalition of political idealogues, and there were a BUNCH of weakened states since the last World War had…

"Papka, the planes are having sex in the sky!!!"

"Do you know what those things can do? Suck the paint off your house and give your family a permanent orange afro."

Say what you want. But this is a parade worthy of its name.

No, Nazis.

They look stylish which I think counts for something in a military. Thats why, even though everybody hates Nazi's, you just got to give it to them those racist bastards knew how to outfit a fighting force.