In Europe, when talking about Russian weapons, they use outdated stereotypes, writes the French news site Atlantico, calling the Russian arsenal much more high-tech than most usually think. The translation of the corresponding publication is given by “Inosmi”.
According to the material, “the lazy European public rests sleepily on the comfortable notion of rusty Russian tanks and nuclear missiles in dilapidated hangars.” “Experts have been observing a completely different picture from the Black Sea to Syria and from Ukraine to Karabakh for ten years,” the newspaper writes.
The publication provides examples of simulations that were carried out in the EU by the Baltic countries and Poland, where Russian troops who took part in hypothetical conflicts defeated opponents in the first few days of hostilities. “Experts explain these defeats by a high-tech arsenal on the verge of science fiction, which has been developed in Russia over the past decade,” the newspaper assures.
Atlantico cites several examples of Russian weapons considered obsolete gaining an advantage over modern Western designs. In particular, the incident in the Black Sea is mentioned, when in April 2014 a Russian Su-24 bomber flew over the American destroyer Donald Cook, as a result of which the latter “went blind and deaf.” “The ship would have been destroyed by the first missile (the Su-24 pretended to come in to attack),” the newspaper assures.
In August 2018, the author of The Drive Tyler Rogovey stated that the Russian robot Igorek and an active exoskeleton with electric motors and a battery, presented at the same time by the Kalashnikov concern at the Army-2018 forum, have nothing to do with real weapons, which may appear in the near future.
