Originally Posted by
Vitek
As for Syria, this operation actually shows in my opinion a major success.
I think syria - especially fights of aleppo - tells a lot like previously said . It tells russia had to try hard for a victory forcing some few thousands rebels out of a city where the rebels had no airforce, no airdefence systems and no sophisticated weapons at all
Now imagine a run for the entire ukraine ...
When we look at civilian sectors we see that current russian technology in aviation , electronics and other advanced products is highly inferior to western products and there is no reason to believe its different in military technology when we compare latest russian to latest us systems .
Its not about blaming or underestimating russian military, the problem is russia would like to represent itself as a world class hightech military superpower which it simply is not .