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Comment by hollerith | Hacker News Reader

>difficult to plausibly claim that all the ancient rusty USSR stuff across the strategic rocket barrier is in any sort of usable shape.

There is no more ancient rusty USSR stuff -- at least in the Kremlin's strategic nuclear arsenal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41041532

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Without evidence, that comment is an opinion piece. Hopefully we never have to find out.

Could it be that the source of your skepticism is the fact that you have over the last 2 years seen many comments here on HN asserting that Russia's military is probably incapable of maintaining an effective strategic nuclear capability whereas my comment is the first one you've seen that takes the opposite position?

According to one comment I saw here a few weeks ago, Russia's nukes are probably made of wood.

I suggest searching the web for "Russian nuclear weapons modernization", restricting yourself to credible news outlets.

Still feels like an opinion, as the other commenter said, look at the state of their equipment when going against Ukraine, there is little indication their nukes or their silos, bombers are much better except your opinion.

Opinions are fine, but the evidence against your opinion is currently stronger.

One of the top results from a very reputable source. The title says it all. "Russia’s Nuclear Modernization Drive Is Only a Success on Paper"

https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2024/0...

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