Does that include the engine?

Easy. In Russia, you can face criminal charges for excessive cost overruns and wasting government money

Sad but true. Maybe one day other countries will decide they need their own defense budgets, but I guess it is easier for them to wail about how we aren’t doing enough and then critize us as the “ World Police” when we do something wrong

From the mid air collision?

Meh, so are Americans. Hardly a single trip across town in traffic doesn't have me wishing for a new plague (which may make me the asshole, but I digress)..

This “avoid civilian casualties” thing is a relatively new phenomenon for us. It wasn’t that long ago that we were desperately trying to make every person killed count as an enemy combatant in some way. That was back when the reports started coming that +80% of the people killed weren’t the intended target. It will…

Not to mention them sinking the South Korean Ship

Bullshit. Human space flight to Mars helps develop advanced propulsion, lightweight radiation shielding, long term life support systems, and advanced fabrication techniques. All are useful here at home for various reasons, and all can have a huge payoff.

Well, NK did just fire another missile into the sea...

No, a Brinks truck has an exposed radiator so with small arms fire you can drain the engine coolant disable the truck. Are they using the truck as propaganda? Of course. Does that mean the truck isn’t real or is useless, of course not.

And I don’t see what about these things makes them so hard to get in and out of. The doors are no smaller than those you find on a typical APC. I am not sure why you are so insistent that these are worthless. Also, it clearly has a lower CG than most of the MRAPs.

If it’s deployed in a riot , it would be a line of them with riot police, not just a lone truck chilling in a back ally

Most vehicles are easy to disable if you know how. I don't know why you seem so insistent that Zil can't make trucks.

At this point you are rambling

It's not a combat vehicle and won't operate in environments with IEDs or RPGs

Isn't meant to be used in an environment with RPGs... This isn't a GAZ Tigr or a BMP.

Take them out? With what? The thing you aren’t understanding is that this isn’t meant to be a vehicle used in combat like in the Middle East. It is meant to control riots and move the Russian equivalent of SWAT teams around.

So? Overkill is what you want for riots.If it looks and sounds scary, then it’s job is done. If the battle is lost in your enemies’ mind, then you have already won.

How about you go protest in the street, and tell me how much of a ridiculous piece of shit it is when it is being used as a riot control vehicle. This isn't a GAZ Tigr, it's a riot control vehicle.

Decent armor and intimidating looks do wonders for squashing civil unrest...