False! Russia cannot compete in QUANTITY vs Nato, of course not, its budget is limited
But technologically, it can, as a matter of fact, in many divisions its ahead of US/Nato
Show me an western tank with an unmanned turret like T-14
Show me an western sub so quiet like the upgraded russian Kilo class "black hole"
LOL! Are you kidding me? Russian doctrine is based on quality?
Russian aka Soviet Union doctrine has been BASED on QUANTITY for decades! Hence why Russia has thousands of T-72 tanks sitting in storage. Russian/soviet military doctrines was overloading the enemy with a lot of tanks even if they were inferior to their counterparts they would out number them.
T-14 is not a GameChanger at this point. Russia has lagged in tank quality against its German and American counterparts since WW2. US army has already put out a contract for next gen tank, so T-14 will have an adversary soon. That is if it even makes it to mass production.
so what? you dont have to reinvent the wheele.
Every missile is an "upgrade" of the german V2, right?
My point is the Hypersonic missile and ICBM are irrelevant as they are part of MAD doctrine and will never be used. If they are used, then Iran and the rest of the world will cease to exist as well as you are talking about a full on nuclear exchange with the two biggest nuclear superpowers.
cheaper + more effective!
russia dont have to build one ship to every nato ship, one plane to every nato plane.
1 missile can smash a navy ship worth 1000 times of the missile, so russia is more efficient.
More efficient does not mean it cant compete technologically against Nato, it just means russians are doing things with brain, nato is doing things to drain the taxpayer.
Who u think will survive in a fight -> few millon $ Bastion anti ship missile vs 4 bln $ Zumwalt class navy ship?
Seriously where do you pull these ridiculous numbers from.
A few million anti-ship missiles. This is a joke right?
First of all only 3 Zumwalts exist and they part of US Navy. I don’t know what the point of bringing this ship up. The Zumwalt has the RCS of a small fishing boat, so goodluck locating it. Not that it is ment to be a major game changer.
So basing your entire arguement on anti ship missiles vs a project with severe cost overruns is oversimplifying the weapons/Navy that NATO and US truly have.
Lastly Russia vs NATO would be fought by land not by sea because Russia is restricted by how it can reach major waterways. That leaves Russian navy exposed away from home.
You act like russia is the only country with anti ship missiles and cruise missiles. Again those missiles buy Russia defense/deterrence.
Possible, but again, Russia is going the "cost/benefit relation" doctrine
This doctrine doesn’t even exist. You just made it up. Putin announced a massive 100+billion modernization effort. Then they lost Ukraine and sanctions happened along with volatily of oil prices. It’s more like realities of situation than any actual change in doctrine. Russia still adheres to Soviet Union military tactics and doctrine.
you heavily underestimate the PAK-FA project, russians already working on 6th gen fighter. there was an good article, russians just dont waste money, they dont need YET! hundreds of PAK-FA, its all about "cost/benefit"
they just test new subsystems on the PAK-FA which will be implemented in the 6th gen fighter in future.
Lol the chief designer of Sukhoi is your source? Seriously? The outlet of propaganda? What is he supposed to say it sucks? It’s inferior to F-35?
So your telling me Russia spent 20 years building plane to test components for another gen plane coming in 15-20 years? Seriously who are you fooling?
Even India didn’t want the plane anymore because of the problems and that it wasn’t truly a 5th gen fighter. It had reduced RCS only at frontal angle. It wasn’t built as a full on stealth fighter as the F-22 was.
It just wasn’t impressive enough when the SU-35 exists at a cheaper price and is well established. That’s the simple truth.
And even if Russia builds a super duper “6th gen” fighter. Whose to say they can AFFORD it? Let’s say the plane costs 100M per unit, how many do you think they can afford?
The US took the F-35 program and had it subsidized by many countries and had certain countries produce certain parts to make it overall more cost effective. Not to mention the billions it will get from selling the planes to its allies. Russia won’t have that benefit. It will take the full brunt of r&d and production.
it lacked because soviet/russia doctrine is different, they just dont needed UAV´s like the USA do.
there was no need for russia to bomb the shit out in other continents
But that changed, russia is now investing heaviliy in UAV´s, and its just a matter of time they will be ahead.
I wrote "if it necessary", what will the US do if all they satellites will be neutralized/jammed? There are many ways to humilate the enemey, no need to go nuclear imediatelly
Here comes the flip flopping, on one hand Russia follows Soviet doctrine then on the other hand it follows “cost/benefit” doctrine. So which is it? It seems you don’t know the difference between the two because they are pretty different in terms of how they approach arms production.
The truth is Russia fell behind in certain areas and UAV technology was one of them. That got exposed in the Georgia war and sent Russia to the drawing board. After struggling on their own, they merely purchased UAVs From Israel (likely some ToT) and Iran.
Iran has had MALE UAV for nearly a decade and attack UAVs even longer. Last I checked, Iran wasn’t “bombing the shit out of other countries” during this time. The future is UAV and AI, Russia was late to the party.
If Russia disables GPS, US will disable GLONASS. So let’s not play the “what if” game. And Russia depends on GPS/GLONASS just as much as the US does.
The real fact is Russia is being backed into a corner without the US/NATO firing a single bullet.
Russia has NATO/US on its borders. Nuclear missiles aimed at it. Interceptor missiles on its borders. And sanctions are tightening the noose around Russia. Once EU finds other gas alternatives, Russia will lose even more leverage.
Putin is tied by the constitution in terms of max term limits. So unless he declares himself Czar he will have to leave the political front officially and work in the shadows.
Russia has lost Ukraine, just let that sink in For a moment. That would be the equivalent of Iran losing Tabriz and Iranian Azerbaijan to Azerbaijan and the West. If that were to happen you wouldn’t declare that Iran is on a roll now would you?
Russia has lost its soviet satellite states. It’s weakning. It can pound it’s chest and act tough but as you can see the US military is pivoting it’s military force to China.
China is the future threat to US global empire. Russia cannot compete economically or military wise with these two superpowers. Russia has no one to blame but itself.
