>>8557358>Honestly that looks too advanced for 2000 Russia.Soviets began to work on LCD MFDs in very late 1980s/early 1990s. Same LCDs on Ka-50 appeared in early 90s.
That's the peak of Soviet military electronics. Never managed to enter mass production though. Further development was stalled by lack of funds in 1990s.
At that time they had some very fun and progressive ideas about future Soviet Army in 1990s-2000s regarding computerization and network-centric warfare, datalinks and integration of all combat vehicles in computer networks (pretty much the same thing US were working on a bit earlier). Didn't have time to work on it before shit hit the fan and military industry collapsed for a decade.
The point is: experimental soviet tech was much more advanced than what they have deployed en masse. Having advanced tech in limited numbers is one thing. Mass producing it is another.
>>8557380Museums usually are not interested/have not enough funds to keep vehicles in realistic conditions.
On this pic I can see another sign of "museum maintenance": triplex glass painted over, because "who the fuck cares".
>planes being equipped with ordnance they can't even deliver, but fit the rails so they were like "whatever"It is even more complex than that
>Planes have weight limitations on different hardpoints>Planes can carry controlled weapons only on certain hardpoints.>There are loadouts for specific missions, but no, people put everything looking different on all hardpoints. 