Russian hardware is top notch, do not let others kid you. They have excellent anti ship missiles and anti air systems. The problem is mostly in the personel. Low pay, low morale, constant abuse. It has gotten better for some units, but second grade units are beeing treated like dirt. They do have precision ammunition…

Israeli planes. That would be, eCCHHem, don't both of those look more like f-16s?

"Hey look over there, it's something besides low oil prices destroying our precariously teetering natural resource based economy!" - Putin 2016

all i say is google dan carlin's common sense podcast episode 'poking the bear' and see one of the most intellectually fascinating and unbiased arguments on this subject.

You cannot indefinitely sustain an expeditionary military. Every nation that has tried, from Egypt to Rome to England has discovered this to their sorrow. Our LCS fleet will not stay on our shores. Everything we have is made to fight on other peoples land. It's expensive complicated and unnecessary. It makes more…