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>Russian rockets are outdated and unable to compete in the World market
How can you say they cannot coom-pete when you're not allowed to buy them because of sanctions?
>Russian space program has little to show for and even has a few humiliating failures
Did you forget all the SpaceX humiliating failures? How about that Goymon rocket they tried launching from Norway a few months ago?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ILfdUjgKUGg
>The Russian re-usable rocket program made little to no progress
Why does reusable matter? And why is it worth the added weight, complexity and cost?
>If Russian "normal" microchip manufacturing is bad, microchips for space applications are even worst.
Electronics made in the 60s are good enough for military applications and avionics.
Your attitude is exactly the same as some overweight, out of shape tele-spectator with his ass on the sofa at home pointing at the TV and laughing at Olympic runners who didn't win the race they were competing in.
Countries which can put stuff into orbit is a very select club and hardly anyone in the EU or 5 eyes is in that club.