Back To The Future

At the pinnacle of USSR power, Soviet road-mobile ICBMs, SS-25's ("Sickles") parade in front of Lenin's Tomb for Victory Day 1985 --- 1985, Marty!

And at the 5:00 mark, Russian SS-25's lumber across Red Square on Victory Day for the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union:

Meh. While the sight of hordes of rumbling Russian military hardware would prompt President Obama to reflexively beg to talk to them about something/anything!-please-pretty-please-let's talk!, the Pentagon says "whatevs":

The United States expressed no alarm over the parade. Russia has become a leading global arms exporter again, but its wares are almost all items designed decades ago. A Pentagon spokesman, echoing a view common among military analysts, had characterized the planned military review as a hollow show of dated gear bearing fresh coats of paint.

“If they wish to take out their old equipment and take it for a spin and check it out,” said the spokesman, Geoff Morrell, “they’re more than welcome to do so.”

In any case, it's been a loooong time since we in the missile defense business have seen their big missile rigs in action --- nice show, comrades. I bet the launch tubes were empty or full of beets.