This isn't worth an extended dispute, but it's something I used to know a lot about -- through 1988 or so I could have told you the CEP (accuracy) of every Soviet missle, the capabilities of WP tanks, and the like. Unless Russian technology has improved a whole lot since the fall of Communism, which I seriously doubt, I don't think that outside a handful of weapons systems, mostly fairly low tech, that their military technology was a serious match for anything the West could field. Hell, their missles were liquid fueled and their jets were using vacuum tubes. Their assualt rifles were the best, though. True, they can still blow up the world, but it doesn't take much to do that.
jks
-SU-27´s and SU-35´s are as good as the F-15, while the MIG-29 can match the F-16 in equal
-terms. Oscar class submarines are effective antiship weapons. AA missiles are almost as
-good as US ones and better than European stuff. Tu-22M´s armed with long range cruise
-missiles are a real threat to USN CVBG´s. The big trouble is that they can´t field too much
-of this hardware and they haven´t developed much new equipment since 1990.
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