Putin’s Analogy : Is this a fallacy?

From a recent article:

“ President Vladimir Putin insisted Russia's homegrown coronavirus vaccine was as “reliable as a Kalashnikov assault rifle”…

Leave it to a rabid strongman to draw such an absurd analogy, but I was wondering if this might entail a fallacy?  Vaccine = Kalashnikov?  ( False analogy? )

I doubt Putin is making an argument. It's just a statement of opinion (and probably a way of hyping up his vaccine).

Seems like more of an opinion. Red cars are better than blue cars. Red cars are has reliable has Roberts pluming. You can set your watch to .........

It could be argued his statement is logically fallacious. The fallacy would be weak analogy. Vaccines have little in common with assault rifles.

Of course, President Putin is trying to be persuasive. That is, his rhetoric is less logos and more pathos. However, Scott Adams has argued that analogies are terrible for persuasion for just this reason: "Analogies are good tools for explaining a concept to someone for the first time," he writes. "But because analogies are imperfect they are the worst way to persuade. All discussions that involve analogies devolve into arguments about the quality of the analogy, not the underlying situation."

So it seems Putin fails here at both logic and persuasion.