It's the warhead, especially the small ones, that are difficult. I imagine a thousand launchers distributed across the country are an issue as well. The problem is that it's too tempting for locals to simply scavenge or resell any maintenance supplies. Very similar to the fuel and food that got sold prior to the start of the Ukraine invasion, only nobody is going to find out unless there's a nuclear war.

Schrodinger's nuclear missiles?

I think there's a handful of Soyuz launches per year, and those don't have a nuclear warhead that needs to be maintained.

Yeah, sorry, I don't believe for a second that Russia has failed to maintain their only playing card. What a joke. US military industrial complex folks will make up any story to excuse their audit-free slovenly spending.

That doesn't make much sense. You'd think the military industrial complex would be playing up how competent and great a threat they are.

> Yeah, sorry, I don't believe for a second that Russia has failed to maintain their only playing card.

Have you, uh, been paying attention to Ukraine?

Huh? How would the Russian arsenal being degraded and not effective in any way argue for more US defense spending?

Well, that's the genius in the Military Industrial Complex propaganda.

Russia is either pathetically weak and so we can push their buttons at our heart content or it is a all powerful evil entity and we need to spend like a trillion to close the missile gap.