Russia uses outdated technology in its allegedly high-tech weaponry
Integrated circuit boards extracted from Russian missiles
Image: Conflict Armament Research
Russia often touts its missile technology as a powerful tool of power projection, something the whole world needs to fear. A fear of it makes complete sense, partly because it uses control and navigation technology dating back several decades. And that gives you the sort of accuracy where a missile may hit hundreds of meters, or even some kilometers from the designated target.
That accuracy may be OK for a nuclear strike. But a conventional charge delivered with such low accuracy has marginal military value, if any at all.
To top it off, many of these technological solutions contain foreign-made components. So to summarize it, the so-called world's second army uses missiles guided by ancient tech - which they can not even make themselves. And that is what this military touts as its most powerful tool. This is a great illustration to inefficiency and hubris that no empire has thus far managed to escape.
References
How Russia Uses Low Tech in Its High-Tech Weapons
John Ismay, The New York Times, 4 September 2022
Component commonalities in advanced Russian weapon systems - Ukraine Field Dispatch
Conflict Armament Research, September 2022