What else do you expect from a country lead by a guy who rides bare chested on a horse in his campaign promos? I might be biased and all, being originally from Ukraine, but this effort is clearly grandstanding and nothing else. Remember, this is the same country where one of the main news anchors goes on TV regularly, and announces how Russia is the only country in the world with with will and the technology to wipe the United States off the face of the planet. Even the politburo back in the USSR days wasn't stupid enough to say something like that, not because it isn't true, but because they understood how mutually assured destruction works. The scary part is, it's possible that the leadership in Russia really is stupid enough to do it.
Putin is many things, but stupid is not one of them.
Overall, it makes me so sad, because I think Russia could be such a grate country if it wasn't for their leadership. There many people inside Russia who think the same way, unfortunately they are oppressed and exterminated on regular bases. It's ironic that a country that requires bloggers to register with the government of face jail time is trying to make an open alternative phone operating system to safeguard the users data.
well, it would be only half bad if there were new tanks. In reality it were "concept-tanks" and giving the most optimistic plans and cost - first deliveries in 2018 at $8M/piece (the price projected today, it will grow significantly by then) - it means that Russia will be living through 202x and into 203x with the main body of the tank force being whatever remains by then of the current 5000 total of drivable T-72/80/90 - these old tanks already are and will be even more "lame sitting ducks" for the high-precision smart AGMs of today and tomorrow and the likes.
There are not a sigle chance of making a successful rival to Android, simply because it requires much more than a huge pile of dumb money and based on self-delusion arrogance.