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 And maybe the market for ideas?  5 months ago varja 71 in psk In Russia there was a unique situation.  Remnants of serfdom persisting, deformed by industrialization.  The latter took an ugly form, without creative destruction. 

 Any attempts to create an innovative economy in Russia run into extractive institutions that are preserved by the policy of "protection" and "stability."  Social lifts for youth are closed, clever people because of, crooked legislation and non-legal regulation of the economy can not realize their ideas. 

 They flee abroad.  And then ignorance was channeled into Orthodox fascism and began to threaten the minds with physical violence.  "It's hard to be God" the Strugatsky brothers: "Literate?  On the count you!  Do you write poems?  On stake!  You know the tables?  On the count, you know too much! "Limited ideas had a hard impact on the army and the military-industrial complex of Russia.

  When I served in the army, I could not understand why the junior officers from the battalion commander to the platoon commanders, who usually fought in hot spots, neigh as horses over the applied strategies that the commanders' fathers descended from above.  

Engaged in the analytical work after the army, I understood the reason for laughter.  The fact is that the strategy of the Russian armed forces has remained the same and unchanged since the Second World War.  It is necessary to produce many tanks to capture the battlefields, just like in Arkanar.  Naturally, you need to spoil more metal in tanks that nobody wants. 

 T-72B3 manages the military budget at 78.9 million rubles.

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  T-90 - 120 million rubles

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 "Armata" - more than 400 million rubles.

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  At a time when the Russian defense industry was improving the armor and electronics of its tanks.  NATO countries did not develop tank building for a very interesting reason. 

 The fact is that the theory of combustion (explosions) has gone far ahead along with systems for detecting armored targets.  Using them on the battlefield has become excessively expensive and extremely inefficient.  It is easier to make a more advanced strike part of the rocket for 2 thousand dollars than to make tanks worth 600 thousand rubles. 

 American scientists did so.  And the "Javelin" had a new rocket.

https://youtu.be/WfqjPaRwmtw

  That's how the new missile works:

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 And the difference for a missile for 2 thousand dollars is not to tear the T-72, T-90 or "Armata" for 600 million rubles.  And here is the calculation of "Javelin": If a country lives at the expense of rental income, then it has backward legislation, there is no competition of ideas.  Lagging in everything leads to degradation and a senseless waste of money and threatens the country's defense capability.  

All photos from Google, and video from youtube.