Really? To tout the military hardware successes of the Ruskies is to ignore that they can’t make reliable tootsie rolls. Previous planes were shoddy, at best, and prone to being held together with baling wire and rubber bands! That’s when they could reliably fly at all! Nice try comrade.
 

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Replies: @Rahan, @Ray Caruso, @Mulga Mumblebrain

bailing wire and rubber bands wouldnt hold a plane together in flight so i doubt migs were held together with bailing wire and rubber bands
whats with americans? making a conscious decision to totally underestimate enemies-weird actually
i mean it makes one feel good and think that one has a talent with snappy one-liners so i guess evolutionary-wise it provides self-confidence with the ladies but one has to live in reality eventually

Replies: @Alfred Muscaria, @TomSchmidt

Can any creature wank like a Yank?

{... is to ignore that they can’t make reliable tootsie rolls. }

Maybe Ruskies can't make reliable tootsie rolls*, but they make some very reliable other stuff. So reliable, that US just HAS to buy it from thems Ruskies: they are that good.

[Why The U.S. Still Has No Viable Alternatives To Russian Rocket Boosters]
https://www.npr.org/2016/02/08/465974255/why-the-u-s-still-has-no-viable-alternatives-to-russian-rocket-boosters

[When it comes to launching top-secret military satellites, the Pentagon relies almost entirely on rocket engines made in Russia. The U.S. has been using Russian rocket boosters for the past 2 decades.]

[U.S. needs up to 18 more Russian rocket engines: Pentagon]
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-space-russia-idUSKCN0X600H

[WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon will need to buy up to 18 more Russian-built RD-180 engines to power rockets carrying U.S. military satellites into space over the next six years or so, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said in an interview on Friday.]

Over to you, homes.

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* US is definitely #1 in building reliable Tootsie Rolls by the 10s of millions: that's why morbid obesity and diabetes rates are skyrocketing in US.