Chinese Sohu: Exercises "West-2021" showed that the core of the Russian army is still Soviet-designed weapons
The Chinese press is discussing the results of the strategic joint exercises "West-2021", which, as you know, were held at the training grounds in Russia and Belarus. Chinese journalists agree that the main purpose of these exercises was to demonstrate the capabilities of the Russian Armed Forces to NATO countries, the infrastructure of which is constantly moving towards the borders of the Russian Federation and Belarus and is being systematically improved.
The Chinese edition of Sohu indicates that during the exercises Russia used certain new weapons, “however, all the same, the maneuvers showed that the core of the Russian army is still weapon Soviet development ".
From, to put it mildly, ambiguous material on the mentioned information resource:
At the same time, the author does not report in the Chinese edition what specific "advanced weapons of the NATO countries" he is talking about. Maybe about the Abrams tanks, which were developed back in the 70s of the last century and which, like many tanks in Russia, were repeatedly improved and modernized? Or maybe Sohu is referring to the American B-52 strategic bomber, which will soon celebrate the 70th anniversary of its first flight?
This is to the fact that it is difficult to find a power that would bring exclusively modern technology to the exercises - not even the one that belongs to the modernized options, but just the very latest - just "out of the pencil" of the designer ... And it is difficult ( more precisely, it is impossible) to find a power whose arsenal of weapons would not consist of a significant percentage of the developments of previous decades.
However, the Chinese author is not embarrassed by this, and in his article he points out that “in order to participate in a military conflict, for example, in Syria, Russia has to open part of its old equipment, which was previously stored in hangars under special seals”:
The fact that there are enough T-62 tanks in Syria itself, the author of the Chinese Sohu, also, apparently, is not particularly interested. And he seriously believes that all the T-62 tanks that are in the SAR have recently appeared there exclusively from Russian military "warehouses".
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