Prometheus
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If it works as well as other Russian technology I'm not terribly concerned.
I would bet our intelligence network in the federation is light years ahead of what it was in the Cold War. I suspect we know as much about this as they do.
Probably more. The system in Russia is such that very few working on any given project understand the big picture. Russians suffer from over specialisation and rarely have much knowledge or ability beyond the details of their given task.
As the 19 century revolutionary, Alexander Herzen, stated “Russia is Genghis Khan with a telegraph”. Has not changed that much since he wrote that observation.