Nor do we hear much about Russian military equipment that cannot be used due to a shortage of spares.

Sixty trains were required to transport captured Russian equipment to Germany.

Then in October 2007 the government reversed their plans, and signed on to buy Russian equipment instead.

But then, how would you come to know so much about Russian equipment?

Every so often, the men who designed and built Russian military equipment got things right, and this was such a case.

Russian military equipment was even to this day extremely Spartan.

It is one of the leading Russian military equipment manufacturers.

The 200,000-kilowatt electric power plant, one of the country's biggest, was built in the early 1970's using Czech and Russian equipment.

But now he found the Russian equipment was no longer picking up his command signals.