The Air Component of the Victory Day Parade Was Totally Absent

We were expecting about a third down in terms of equipment numbers from last year. The air component of the parade was entirely absent. We saw some new unattended ground vehicles with weapons, fine o. But otherwise it was just the usual thing. It wasthat there was a small number of tanks, bit of air defence systems and had the yards intcontinental balistic missile out again. I don't think we can start pointing at anyt capability there. There's another whole range of stuff, yeu got to do to be able to fight it effectively. And that's great, but i'm not going to forgive me if i're not going to quake in my boots and say oh g