You are vastly overestimating Russia ability to innovate. Russia has basically not innovated since the Soviet Union. Angara rocket is supposed to be the 'next generation' rocket and its adoption has been painfully slow.
The idea that they could just build a reusable rocket is just not in the car.
Mostly what the Russian space program has been doing is announcing one absurd program after another. The amount of power-point designs announced by Russia is comical. They have announced a reusable rocket but like so many of the other projects, its mostly just propganda.
The idea that they could just build a reusable rocket is just not in the car.
Mostly what the Russian space program has been doing is announcing one absurd program after another. The amount of power-point designs announced by Russia is comical. They have announced a reusable rocket but like so many of the other projects, its mostly just propganda.