Do you really want to compare how many military aircraft and how many of naval ships us mic has produced in the recent years vs Russia?
So you basically are focusing on the very items which thus far have had the least relevance to this campaign. I mean Russia hasn't lost that many jet aircraft. Other than Su-25 Frogfoots and they have loads of those in storage. The US isn't producing the A-10 anymore either. Well. Let us go sector by sector then. How many twin jet fighter aircraft has the US produced over the past two decades, and how many has Russia produced? I will give you a hint. The US produced less twin jet fighters than Russia. The US has produced gazillions of F-35s but that is a multinational program so it isn't being produced only with US components. And those are single engine aircraft. Russia has produced hundreds of Flankers for itself. And in addition to that it has sold hundreds more AL-31 engines for China to put in its Flankers and J-10. Or for India to put in its Flankers. Yep you just forgot about all those engines. Only with the J-16 and J-10C has China started using its own engines.
And sure, the naval industry was mostly in Ukraine after the Soviet Union collapsed, and Russia stubbornly insisted on throwing Ukraine a bone and letting them make the marine engines. And because of that and the 2014 coup all the surface naval construction program was delayed by like a decade. But it is not like Russia has done nothing in that time. They refurbished a lot of their existing shipyards. And they opened up new ones. In strategic nuclear submarines, right now, Russia is certainly ahead in terms of production and modernized design. In attack submarines, they have like half the production rate, because they used to build nuclear attack submarines at two shipyards in Soviet times, and now they only build at Sevmash. But guess what the other submarine shipyard still exists in the Far East. It is building corvettes right now. It had loads of issues with management and staffing but they finally got that sorted out.
Frigate production is also still low because of issues with scaling up production of certain components. But they have at least two shipyards which have built frigates recently. If they manage to fix the issue with sourcing components, get it being produced in two shipyards, and put more orders in I think they could triple or quadruple the production of frigates. There are also like two other shipyards which still are operational which did build frigates in Soviet times so they have a dry dock large enough to build frigates. And they do have facilities large enough to build destroyers or cruisers if it came to that. But given the problems sourcing the components for the frigates it was still too early to build destroyers. The cruiser program was also delayed but that shipyard has been building nuclear icebreakers. So they still have shipbuilding capabilities. The major issue is large surface combatants like LHDs or supercarriers. They do not have enough dry dock capacity to match the US for those. Let alone the rest of the required facilities. They are currently building two LHDs in one shipyard. They do have the nuclear reactors to make a supercarrier, like I said elsewhere, they are building RITM-400 reactors for the Leader icebreaker right now.
if russia is able to build civilian airliners 100%, then why is almost 100% of its own civilian airliner fleet consist of planes that are 100% foreign made?
Oh right I also forgot about this. But Russia can produce the Tu-204 and Il-96 with 100% of its own components. But those are previous generation aircraft similar to the Boeing 757 and Airbus A340. There is little point producing the Tu-204 for the civilian market once the indigenous MC-21 comes out. And the Il-96 as a quad engine is obsolete and is supposed to be replaced with the CRAIC CR929 eventually.
A more realistic indication of russia’s true capabilities is to be seen from the fact that her G5 fighter fleet still consist of one fewer planes than fingers on one hand
So how many countries have 5th gen aircraft? Three. If Russia just converted Flanker production to the Su-57 they could easily get to similar numbers to the US F-22 fleet in maybe 3 years. But they don't want to increase production until the Su-57M design is finalized. Maybe this war will change their perception. But in their point of view they want a 5+ aircraft and not a 5 gen one. As is the Su-57 design is better than the F-22.
and those 5 are of notably inferior fabrication quality compare to their vastly more numerous American and chinese contemporaries
"notably inferior". People look at pictures of the hand made prototypes and compare those with production aircraft. You know what the level of finishing detail in the production aircraft is a lot better. And you know what, the F-22 and F-35 are disasters in terms of combat availability. Russia can't afford a non-economic design like that where most aircraft have to sit in the tarmac waiting for repairs.
and she has commission no new warship larger than about 6000 tons in over 20 years
They have built 20000 tons nuclear icebreakers. And the nuclear submarines are larger than 6000 tons. The Borei is close to 15000 tons.
Like I said, lack of availability of components, like the gas turbines which used to be the domain of Ukraine. Used to.
and her fancy new tank needed to be towed off of the first parade they attended.
Yes. Because the driver engaged the parking brake. Try doing that and see what will happen to your car. When they figured that out and disengaged the parking brake the tank rolled out just fine. They figured it out after trying to tow it, and it still wouldn't move. You eat too much Western propaganda.
she is a third rate nation going through the motions of punching far above her weight, hoping no one will notice her light weight. but her light weight is showing more snd more clearly with each punch motion she goes through.
Russia has 145 million people. How much do you want them to do?
