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Part of that stems from the fact that they are the biggest victims of hate crimes since 9/11. The average Sikh is more likely to face a hate crime than the average Muslim.

:rofl: They make it sound like I could buy a 700 megawatt nuclear reactor from them for $1,700. In reality, that's the cost per kilowatt, so the total cost of a 700 megawatt reactor comes out to a more reasonable $1.19 billion.

Does this look like reactor coolant to you?

One is already undergoing sea trials. The last of the subs will be introduced by 2021, but some of them should be introduced much earlier. Obviously, the zircon-s is not ready yet, so we won't be able to see it in action for a while. Actually, it could be much more efficient by flying...

That's certainly an important task, which is what the Borei ballistic missile submarines are for. But relying on a nuclear deterrent is risky. If Russia get's involved in a conventional war, I doubt they'd be willing to start armageddon by using nukes. This is where the attack submarines come...

It's amusing how people complain that Russia is still using Cold War era tanks with the T-90 just being an upgraded version of the T-72. In reality, it's no different from anywhere else, such as in America, where we're still upgraded variants of the old M1 tank. In fact, Russia is making a...

I expect the S-400 production rate isn't high enough to satisfy Russia's needs.

It wouldn't be able to. I'd argue though that such a scenario is extremely unlikely. From what I've observed, the objective ranking that GFP has matches amazingly well with my own subjective ranking. They've clearly come up with a good formula for ranking countries.

This is certainly a major problem. It will be Putin's greatest challenge to deal with corruption. Not sure about China, but I think Russia is in a better position to end corruption than India though. If anybody can single handedly deal with corruption, it's Putin.

This is good. Nuclear attack submarines are a cost effective way to destroy a large blue water navy (such as America's).

So the first Russia spends the same on defense as the second Russia but gets outdated weapons? The point is that technology level is reflected in the defense budget and gdp size.

I don't think Iran's system is designed against ballistic missiles. Its probable opponents, Israel and USA, don't use ballistic missiles. They use cruise missiles. Which definitely have complex guidance systems that could potentially be spoofed.

The only thing they need to hack is the GPS signal for GPS guided missiles. And for everything else, they just use good old decoys.

Neither committed genocide or arbitrary killings. Robospierre's killings came in a time of chaos and might have helped stabilize France. Sure, they were overboard, but the French nobility had been causing the deaths of tens of thousands of ordinary French people for ages through their oppressive...

The fact that it's much cheaper to have a puppet government in place.

Robospierre, Khomeinei, and Stalin weren't evil. And Emperor Hirohito cannot be held responsible for what the Japanese military did. He wanted peace, but he wasn't the one in charge.

Don't know about the Quran, but when I read the Bible - specifically the Torah - I have to say that the jews and their god did some pretty crazy things.

Here's Vladimir Putin's essay "Being Strong - Why Russia needs to rebuild its military." He doesn't mince his words. Western analysts have been saying that the Russian military needs to become smaller and more streamlined to deal with small scale regional threats. Putin makes it clear that it is...

Last year, Russia laid out its plan to spend $650 billion on its military to replace aging Soviet equipment and rebuild the military which had suffered lack of funding during the 1990s. 80% of that is being spent on procurement. That's an average of $52 billion a year. In comparison, the United...

Yup. The entire Russian military industry is going to be backlogged with domestic orders until 2020 at the very least.