Well, Soviet/Russia is optimized to fight neighbouring countries. That implies more logistics problems than for e.g. USA.
What shocked me was the secrecy about weapon systems, to train people without letting them even see the equipment they would use if the fertilizer hit the fan.
From a perspective from around 40 years ago, there were two cases:
An open society, with quite a lot of research published. And a closed society, which could import the information from the open society (including a lot about weapon engineering) but kept their cards hidden.
before hindsight, it wasn't obvious which solution would work in the end.
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Well, Soviet/Russia is optimized to fight neighbouring countries. That implies more logistics problems than for e.g. USA.
What shocked me was the secrecy about weapon systems, to train people without letting them even see the equipment they would use if the fertilizer hit the fan.
From a perspective from around 40 years ago, there were two cases:
An open society, with quite a lot of research published. And a closed society, which could import the information from the open society (including a lot about weapon engineering) but kept their cards hidden.
before hindsight, it wasn't obvious which solution would work in the end.