Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "US Think Tank Admits Russia's Massive \u0026 Growing Military Industrial Output" video.

Not quite yet. The Soviets neglected microtechnologies (transistors, chips, foundries), and Russia has only recently started investing in them. This will be fixed in a few decades assuming investment continues and accelerates. Thinking there are no problems is a fast way to expose your vulnerabilities.
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@GETJUSTICE4U Thank you for your insight. I agree that microchips make economies of scale easier, but that isn't Russia's problem. It already has sub-90nm domestic chip capabilities. The issue comes down to 1) funding— new projects are extremely expensive to get off the ground 2) specialized tools. Russia still lacks crucial components in the semiconductor supply chain Zeiss is the only manufacturer in the world of the lenses used to etch at sub-5nm scale (using EUV). So Russia would not only need to produce its own chips but also every component needed to make the chips. That's what will take decades, filling in gaps in the supply chain does not happen overnight. Electroplating, lenses, machine tools, mechanical engineering design, lithography, all need to be upgraded first. Then the consumer-grade chips and tech will come. Basically Russia needs to achieve what China already has; its own consumer tech infrastructure. Oppo, Vivo, Huawei, Alibaba, TikTok etc.
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@charlescarabott7692 I agree, but as I mentioned before, it will take decades to rebuild the entire ecosystem outside of Western supply chains. The neglect started in the 1980s USSR, where central planners rushed several projects to align with Revolutionary holidays instead of properly developing their personal computer analogues to Western ones. Then the USSR later turned down a contract with a British computer maker and opted for reverse-engineering American units.
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