You are exerting a lot of effort to paint the Russians as incompetent and dependent on old Ukrainian expertise.And how do we know that Russian nuclear weapons are real, what they are scaring everyone with?
Judging by the fact that we have not been providing technical support for their ICBMs for a long time, and what they tried to make as a replacement for our missiles does not fly, they are scaring everyone with something that does not exist.
ps. It's funny when Russia scares the world with our old nuclear missiles (developed by KB Pivdenne,Pivdenmash-Dnipro. Hartron Kharkiv - avionics )
If one reads your tripe, they would be led to believe that Russia does not have operational IRBM or ICBM capability.
* Russia's Oreshnik strike on Dnipro seemed pretty fucking competent on November 21st!
They used existing nuclear risk-reduction channels to give the US Defense Department a 30 minute warning prior to launching the strike. Then they proceeded with zero intercept and extremely precise placement of all 36 kinetic payloads.
* 12 months before that, they successfully launched a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile from one of their new nuclear powered Borei-class submarines. Like the Oreshnik, it is MIRV capable with a range exceeding 5,000 miles.
* 2 months ago another one of their nuclear subs launched a Kalibr cruise missile that struck a target at the Kura test site on the Kamchatka Peninsula, over 1,100 kilometers away.
. . . All of these are new systems . . . Russia is doing quite well without your assistance.