Respond to August 14, 2012, 11:08: The fact that when I saw the RT channel how they are organized, sweet and strong coverage! I understand that Russia media is strong ! Go forward RT

In case you just did not get it so far, this blog is about Russia. So "the junk weapons," "the rusting old Soviet" once and the rest of it should not concern you. This blog is not about the U.S. This blog is about Russia.

@ "To: Ex-Pat in the US" - speaking of nameless bloggers, you don't even use your own handle -  This blog has everything to do with the U.S.  RT is an official propaganda arm of the Russian government aimed at the US and the English-speaking world.  The artices are in English, the video news is in English and this blog is in English, and they are very interesting.  If it had "nothing to do with the US", the whole thing would be in Russian.  Clearly the article was meant to impress us, not the taxpayers of the Russian Federation.

F urther, of the 8 pages of comments in this blog, more than half of the comments are from Russians (the word order and syntax gives that away) and contain childish, "rude" and insulting anti-American garbage, taunting US readers and making "rude" comments about the quality of our military equipment.

I made no such "rude" comments about your war craft.  Anyone who knows anything about military aircraft knows that the Sukhoi design bureau is creating state of the art equipment for your country. 

I repeat, you won't need this fine equipment to attack or defend against us.  There is only one major military threat on your borders and it doesn't take a genius to guess who that is.  I'm just glad we don't have a border with them.

Further , any article created by the Russian government announcing that it will be spending such a huge amount of money, primarily on its Air Force, is bound to invite discussion regarding "why."  My comments are limited to why I think you may well need to modernize and expand it.  How that becomes a "nasty intrusion,"  well that's a bit silly.