Whether Air, Land, Sea, we always hear about Russia's new prototypes. Join Chris as he talks to independent analyst Stanimir Dobrev on why Russia's prototypes like the Su-57 don't matter as long as other issues continue to handicap the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS).

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- Recommendations by Stanimir Dobrev -
Dobrev, Sanimir: Dwarfing the Giant: The Reality of Russia’s Military, Part I, 19th September 2018, https://international-review.org/dwar... (last accessed 05/11/2022).

Dobrev, Sanimir: Dwarfing the Giant: The Reality of Russia’s Military, Part II, 14th November 2018, https://international-review.org/dwar... (last accessed 05/11/2022).

General recommendation is to look at local and regional sources as the information contained there is 'less' filtered. These are in Russian:

Examples include:
https://vpk.name/
https://www.vedomosti.ru/
https://www.business-gazeta.ru/
https://www.kommersant.ru/
https://flotprom.ru/
https://mil.press/
https://novayagazeta.ru/
https://bmpd.livejournal.com/
https://baza.io/
https://63.ru/

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Stanimir Dobrev

Thumbnail:
Su-57 by Anna Zvereva, wiki commons
Putin by Kremlin[dot]ru, wiki commons

- Timecodes -
00:00 - Intro
01:04 - Trends over the past decade
04:55 - The challenges in equipping the Russian Air Force (Aerospace Forces)
09:42 - Pilot training: critical problems and bottlenecks
13:43 - Availability numbers of aircraft
16:27 - What's up with the Su-57?
19:31 - What is Russia improving?
22:03 - VKS perfomance in Ukraine: biggest takeaway
25:56 - Recommendations

- Audio -
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