{"id":3964,"date":"2013-09-03T08:17:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T06:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=3964"},"modified":"2013-09-03T08:17:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T06:17:25","slug":"russian-military-equipment-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2013\/09\/russian-military-equipment-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Military Equipment Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a comical advertisement for Russian military hardware disguised as a news story. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/russia\/economics\/19-12-2012\/123231-russia_military_hardware-0\/#7\">Russian military hardware best in the world<\/a>. \u00a0Just a reminder, <em>Pravda<\/em> is Russian for truth and was, probably still is, the official government news organ. \u00a0One of the amusing tidbits is their trumpeting of an Iranian claim that a Russian-made ground attack aircraft, the SU-25, took out an MQ-1 Predator drone as an example of the equipment&#8217;s superiority. \u00a0<strong>To repeat, a manned aircraft shot down a drone. \u00a0<\/strong>Lastly, as far as I know, all of Russia&#8217;s high tech eqipment exports and foriegn licenses are for what are called &#8220;chimp&#8221; models. \u00a0That is, model that do not include all the latest equipment upgrades that enter Russian service.<\/p>\n<p>I \u00a0will never forget the look on the Russian soldier&#8217;s face in Bosnia in 1996 when we showed him our M3A2 Bradley&#8217;s and what they could do. \u00a0When he looked at us and said &#8220;and we thought we could beat you,&#8221; it was priceless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a comical advertisement for Russian military hardware disguised as a news story. \u00a0Russian military hardware best in the world. \u00a0Just a reminder, Pravda is Russian for truth and was, probably still is, the official government news organ. \u00a0One&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2013\/09\/russian-military-equipment-advertising\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,24],"tags":[569,89,25,72],"class_list":["post-3964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-campaigns-operations","category-military-technology","tag-military-technology-2","tag-russia","tag-tech","tag-technology","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}