Every country has its speciality and where it dominates, Russians are never known for their cars, the Germans are, When anyone talks of top 5 cars, they are now either German or Japanese followed quite far off by the americans . The French are there just to make up the numbers. The Qualify of Russian engineering is excellent, and specially in designing. The Russians have came up with many designs those have seen operations. Also.
Lets see, There are the MiG15 to 19 and Su-7 which are swept back wings, There is MiG-21 and Su-15 with its triangular wing, There are Mig-23 Mig-27 Su-22 Su-24, Tu-144 with the Variable Swept wings. There is Yakolev planes which are VTOL and in a way, there seems that Lockheed were adviced in technical area by the Yakolev engineers for the F-35 B version VTOL version.. Also lets not forget the long ranged bombers T-16, Tu-20, Mya-4 the worlds heaviest plane An--225 .. the worlds most destructive Submarine Typhoon class, Then there also is the worlds deepst going attack submarine Alfa class, Also first Sattleite... first man in outer space.... Does anyone remember any french in outer space? Maybe an author who just wrote a fantasy. Now these are all the various enginnering achievements, Further in aviation there is Su-30, Su-35 and now PAKFA... unparalled...
In all these years, the French hav ejust come up with one design, and just tried to squeeze it out .. Mirage III, Delta wing,,,... Mirage 2000 again a delta, and inspired by SAAB viggen the french decided to add Canards to Mirage 2000 to make it "excellent plane" Can the french boast of an operational heavy or medium transport that was actually designed to be a military transport plane? How about VTOL plane, any ever operational aircraft made? How about Variable wings made on your own and in operation? Let the french not talk of Engineering achievements or Quality of engineers. By the way, when we buy defence equipment, we buy seeing their defence equipment and not cars..