>>18291794
Corrupt, incompetent, ineffective, backward and obsolete, just like absolutely everything else in the Soviet Union.

>>18291810
By the 1980s it wasn't backward at all it was probably the most modern Soviet armed service branch. But yeah the USSR collapsed shortly after.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2018/august/historic-ships-red-american-cruiser
My grandfather was part of the crew that took this obsolete American cruiser escorting a convoy to Murmansk, then handed it over to the Soviets as part of a complicated deal related to dividing up the surrendered Italian Navy amongst the Allies. In 1949 the Russians returned it as a rust bucket and it was quickly scrapped.

I've heard that the soviet sailors for some reason were the best soviet troops during ww2

>>18291794
Vodka, sodomy and the nagaika

>>18291850
>>18292062
The United States literally had to support the Russian military with millions of dollars for years right after the dissolution of the USSR to prevent them from selling their nuclear weapons to warlords or some terrorist Arab.