Business Insider: The most spectacular Russian military failures of all time
There are some projects that the Kremlin would love us to forget.
The Russian military has long been a bogeyman for the West, with Cold War memories lingering even after the fall of the Soviet Union.
However, over the years Russia's fierce competition has produced a number of duds alongside its successes, as the country has scrambled to stay one step ahead of its geopolitical rivals.
The following is a collection of some of the most ambitious military projects that resulted in spectacular failures.
WNU Editor: My altitude and philosophy behind mistakes and failures is simple .... do a mistake once .... you are a philosopher. Do the same mistake again .... you are an idiot.
When I hear this one I think of a place far away in time.
ReplyDelete"Let me speak proudly: tell the constable
We are but warriors for the working-day;
Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd
With rainy marching in the painful field;
There's not a piece of feather in our host--
Good argument, I hope, we will not fly--
And time hath worn us into slovenry:
But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim;
And my poor soldiers tell me, yet ere night
They'll be in fresher robes, or they will pluck
The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads
And turn them out of service. If they do this,--
As, if God please, they shall,--my ransom then
Will soon be levied. Herald, save thou thy labour;
Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald:
They shall have none,
I swear, but these my joints;
Which if they have as I will leave 'em them,
Shall yield them little, tell the constable."
And then there is the F-35.
ReplyDeleteOMG!!!!! Poetry from James. :)
ReplyDeleteJay ... when I was putting up this post, the F-35 was constantly on my mind.
Tell the constable WNU.
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Shakespeare was never my strong point James. The old English is hard to understand.
This is easier.
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I now understand. Thank you.
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