Is it so perfect Russian weapons today ...
For foreign countries, Russia has always been and remains a country that simply draws once again to criticize. Particularly willing to succeed in this power of some countries of the former socialist camp, as well as, by tradition, the Americans and their henchmen. Criticism is often associated with the principles of government in our country, selected democratic forms, pressure on the media, an aging technical park. But more recently, cries have begun to be heard that Russia, in addition to the above, is also producing poor quality weapon. Of course, if the same Americans or French say it, then they can be understood - the competition, after all ... you will besmirch the Russians with mud, and then it will be seen - maybe you can sell more of yours ...
But when accusations against Russian weapons come from countries such as India, with which cooperation has been going on for several decades, it’s worth considering. Some immediately demonstrate obvious aggression against Indian and other colleagues who are engaged in the procurement of Russian weapons: they say, what are these Hare Krishnas interested in! They bought, they say, our equipment for billions of dollars, and all of them are wrong - Tanks they don’t shoot, then the ship’s engines stall, then the planes fall. If you do not go into the context of transactions on the supply of Russian weapons abroad, then, of course, we can say that buyers simply want to bring down the price, and they invent all sorts of taunts addressed to us. But now, if you try to understand the situation, then problems will emerge in our production complex.
So, some time ago, the Russian side was charged that the aircraft carrier delivered to India categorically refuses to sail as it should. In this case, the Indians say that on this ship there is not even a couple of meters of electric wiring that has not rotted through, and the power from the generators is extremely unstable. Immediately on the part of the Russian suppliers he heard reproaches to the Indians themselves. And these words are approximately as follows: they themselves, they say, bought a ship from us "at a discount", and now you don’t like it, that we didn’t repair it at all. It was necessary, they say, to our children, electricians, to pay the “denyushka”, they would twist something there and insulate with their blue electrical tape. The situation is more like a case in kindergarten, when one boy exchanges a broken machine for a bitten apple from another.
So I want to say: citizens are sellers, and citizens are buyers, what are you fooling around? If we are talking about the sale of a whole aircraft carrier, then one of them needed to give at least a presentation and another to look under the hood, as they say. Now both those and others may get the impression that the partner, to put it mildly, is not quite reliable. And it will be absolutely true.
The situation with the equipment that has already been exploited is quite understandable: any used machine as a new one will no longer work. But when it comes to new Russian weapons, it becomes a shame for the Power, when every weapon allows itself to decry. We will try to consider this difficult question. Claims to the new weapons from Russia again brought from India. The essence of the claims is as follows: adjustable Russian-made projectiles deteriorate very quickly during storage. Our side immediately stated that the storage conditions of Krasnopolis in India do not fit any standard.
You can immediately comment: how are the same shells stored with us? Literally every month we hear from television screens: ammunition explodes in military warehouses in Siberia, now in the North-West, now in the Urals. Soldiers are conscripts, who, as always, are guilty. Well, in fact, no one will say that this “General Pupkin” has already been able to lay a normal floor in a warehouse for 10 for years and patch up the roof. Here and in India shells store about the same principle. They also studied with us, these Indian generals ...
Therefore, claims against each other, of course, can be, but where are the shells themselves? As they say, nothing to blame the mirror ...
However, such situations have often arisen in which the Russian military or space technology can actually fail foreign partners, and here it’s far from being in the wrong storage or inadequate operation. How to deal with a launch vehicle that, for obscure reasons, “ditched” several satellites of other states at once. Here, even the fraternal Belarus quite reasonably began to resent, because her companion "lost without a fight." Recently, the Russian Progress again made the whole world shudder because it did not reach the ISS. The new T-50 fighter on the recent MAKS-2011 proved to be not quite impressive either. And such examples, unfortunately, from year to year becomes more and more.
You can no longer talk about the 100% impeccability of our military developments. It is a fact. And while we are trying to “patch up” the holes and look for the guilty not only in the assembly shops and in the offices of designers, but also among the “common Russophobes”, claims to our technology will appear more and more often in the world. So, it is necessary to stop collecting absurd excuses, and to approach the issue of development and fulfillment of one’s own party of the contract truly responsibly.
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