>>64257730
May not even be a need to send that friend!
Russia chest-thumping ultra-nationals said they had 50 badass "Kirovs" as they paraded them... In reality it was just 5 doing loops and photoshop magic.
Of the 5, 2 are not combat-capable or otherwise crash/die en route because General Kleptovich stole virtually all the maintenance budget AND the aircrew training budget.
Of the 3 still puttering towards the front line... another 2 are overhyped clown shows when they do arrive because apparently Defense Minister Corruptovich before his cousin General Kleptovich could even do his thing got the manufacturer to secretly under-spec and swap in duds for kickbacks. So some of the most touted "revolutionary West-destroyer" avionics don't function for shit and almost 50% of the ordnance don't actually fantastically explode like they should.
Meanwhile a platoon of AA bois actually trained properly, fed property and using kit that actually fucking works to spec are wondering why all of them bothered showing up. The NATO German soldiers part of the intercept team alternate between feeling fremdschΓ€men and schadenfreude (hilarious that Germans have a single convenient word to describe the two correct feelings for any self-respecting military who sees such an embarrassing Russia-stronk vatnick shitshow).