Recruiting engineers to fight with pay incentives… I remember in the Vietnam war all of us engineers lost our draft status. My newly made family went from HP engineers salary to E2. With a new baby and wife I wondered why no salary boost if you were married. My Dad (US Navy W2) explained if the Navy wanted you to have a wife they would have issued you one. I shorty was called to OCS and then an instructor at nuclear power school. I wonder if the Russian engineers realize how lucky they are to be offered such a salary. Of course Russia has not been paying many front line soldiers salaries so that might be something recruiters should mention so the engineers can plan properly.