It’s huge, and the way Russians “engineer” things boggles my mind. They literally just scale components. The rotors and systems on all their helicopters are nearly identical, just bigger or smaller with more or less blades, etc.

And the Mi-26 is so powerful it can tow a Chinook through the air. Not really pro-Russian here. Just always been amazed at how big that monster is.

Cute.

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True, India insists that a certain high percentage be made in India. So this is probably not a Russian quality issue. Haven't heard that Algeria, who buys Russian built aircraft, has had the crashes that India has.

There actually were. Check out how many times/dates Turkey had summoned a Russian ambassador to complain about that. Plus their minions who shot the pilot had been bombed a lot ( clips on youtube are available ). Whatever is left of them are having a very tough time in Turkey now explaining their actions to a judge (…

There is a different point of view on this issue: NATO was formed as a response to a growing influence of Communist Eastern bloc after WW2. When USSR collapsed in 1991, the cold war officially had ended. But not the NATO. It gained new members in late 1990s.

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Some could say the “routine training exercise” was simply a cover. Ok, by the same logic, should the Russian warships be able to conduct “routine training exercises” off the coast of US in say, the Gulf of Mexico, since the US does not own the said Gulf?

NATO? Sure. And? See a Russian vessel off the coast of US?

White House - bots are already here it seems.

Considering the entire Baltic is withing range of Russian Naval aviation, air defense systems, anti-ship missiles, there would be a lot of US warships on the bottom of the Baltic. Baltic Sea, Black Sea etc - are a death trap for a carrier. Carriers are primarily suitable for US colonial wars.

What’s a “peaceful” US warship doing 70 miles off the the coast of Russia? Last I checked, US border wasn’t anywhere near the Baltic Sea.

Yeah because the Russians sail on the edge of American territorial waters all the time...

Yeah right!...:)

Russian attack helicopters in Palmyra.

Yeah, whether the Russians figured this out or not, Tyler is clearly missing the forest for the trees on this one. He’s envisioning a C2 challenge on the scale of controlling a regiment of these things, when in reality you’re looking at only controlling a handful in the highest-risk situations.

“There can be no doubt that modern air wars cannot be fought on the cheap—well, unless you’re Russia” Yeah right!Really funny. The day the Syrian army(with the help of Russian airstrikes) liberates Palmyra from ISIS in what is described as the heavier one battle defeat for ISIS since its creation.What happen?The facts…

It is terribly inefficient for the counter insurgency role. Our current war against ISIS is practically being run as expensive and wasteful as possible.