Post Soviet shit in service with non Warsaw pact countries.
>Mexico acquired it's Russian helicopter fleet in an impromptu trade agreement, after Russia took a loan from to purchase oil drilling equipment from Mexico. After Russia could not make the agreed upon payments to Mexico in either US dollars or Mexican pesos an agreement was brokered where Russia would settle the debt with a direct trade of vehicles and food products. Mexico was repaid with several dozen military helicopters, amphibious vehicles and multiple cargo vessels loaded with vodka and seafood. Much of the seafood spoiled in transit and the Mexican government refused to accept it. Russia agreed to pay the remainder of the balance with two Mi26 heavy lift helicopters. Russia agreed it would take back the spoiled seafood and dispose of it properly. Instead the food was dumped by Russian sailors off the coast of Cozumel where it temporarily damaged the local eco system. The odor of the several hundred tonnes of rotten fish could be detected on shore 5 kilometers away. The aircraft currently sit unused in Mexico as Russia has struggled to reliably supply vital engine parts. Russia has claimed that the maintenance contract with Mexico is not valid.
>Following the collapse of the Russian economy, debts to South Korea were also defaulted on. An agreement was worked out where South Korea would receive armored military vehicles, cooking oil, petroleum products, grain and beef. Much of the beef was determined unsuitable for human consumption and was processed as animal feed. The vehicles were found to be of lower perceived quality than those operated by the Republic of Korea army by then and were put into auxiliary use as reserve and training vehicles. It is suspected that several were sold to the United States and China where they were disassembled and studied. Russia has repeatedly lobbied for their return, claiming that it was an unfair trade brokered in bad faith.
>36 year old plane >being retired because russia STILL hasn't made anything that can even touch it >too expensive to keep around for an enemy that never materialized lol
>f22 is better than f35 In some ways that don't really matter in our actual timeline where russia has nothing to put up against it. In most ways, no. It's way more expensive and never designed to be mass produced so it doesn't make sense to keep it around. Since nothing r*ssia makes can touch an F-35 either, and it's got newer electronics.
Andrew Johnson
BMP-1 i think in the IDF these were mostly used as mortar carriers
each one of these is as powerful as the sole f35's engine by the way >In some ways that don't really matter in our actual timeline where russia has nothing to put up against it delusionel grandeur, s400 will oneshot it from 200km
india makes Russian licensed tanks, planes, BMPs and guns
Jayden Hall
>It's way more expensive and never designed to be mass produced so it doesn't make sense to keep it around
Not quite. Something like 750 were originally going to be built to replace pretty much all of our F15s eventually, but Obama pretty much saw Russia as a non-threat and deemed the Chinese far enough behind that he decided we wouldn't bulk buy the F22. The successor of the F22 which is already in the pre-production phase however is likely to be procured in larger numbers. It is too bad that the F22 was cut however. It would have gotten a bomber variant and a larger two seat variant with canards.
