One of the pillars of Russian propaganda was the image of its military forces as the "second" army of the world. And the key brick in the formation of this image was stories about new military-industrial complex products. Not only were they given exceptional characteristics, but they were also presented as having no equivalents in the world.

This Kremlin legend could have been maintained for a very long time, if not for the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The battlefield has shown that some samples do not even come close to having the declared properties, and some exist only in propaganda stories. LIGA.net tells about the most notable failures of Russian miltech.

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