India already withdrew from joint development of the Su-57 in '18. 🇷🇺 had cut down on its own planned purchases of the ✈️ due to budget pressures, which ⬆️ the cost for 🇮🇳, angering New Delhi. Then there's the fact that the engine is an "interim" one whose stealth isn't up to par. Since the program started in '06 only 10 prototypes & 1 serial production ✈️ have been built, & the serial production model promptly crashed.
The Su-57 is likely to be the aerial counterpart to the T-14 Armata. 🇷🇺 originally wanted >2,000 of the tanks by 2020, then 2025, and have now rejected full rate production altogether in favor of a limited "test batch".
Moscow simply doesn't have the 💰 to replace its massive Soviet-era arsenal today, even IF it can still do the R&D. It's a catch-22 b/c if they focus on upgrading existing equipment to maintain their image as a great military power, that leaves fewer rubles for new toys. Then there's all the 💰 needed to spend on the strategic ☢️🚀 stuff like submarines.
The strategy they'll probably adopt for all forces is the one they've taken for the navy: scale back expectations & focus on core capabilities. 🇷🇺 hasn't built a surface ship greater than 5,000 tons since the end of the USSR. Destroyers are replaced w/ frigates, frigates w/ missile boats, & so on. Fantasies like carriers are put aside, & 🇷🇺 interests retrenched from to green to brown water.
Submitted July 07, 2020 at 08:52PM by Sachyriel https://ift.tt/3f9Pn93
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