An important part of the Russian plan was to acquire American equipment and supplies. In the meantime, after two months, it turned out that this and that was successful, but the problem is the low technical culture of Russian mechanics and the language barrier.
Although Moscow made sure that there were enough English soldiers in the first wave, but they had long since crushed the line, and their successors had difficulty reading not only the instruction manual but even maps and signposts ...

In this situation, the helpers turned out to be Iranian and Egyptian soldiers who already had contact with US licensed equipment, but they ordered themselves to pay dearly for this help.

Either way - after the first weeks - the only measurable gain of the Russians was to get some 150 M60 tanks, US tanks and Tucson airplanes, but in spite of several flights on single units, they were far from usable.
