<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=580315217-23022003></SPAN></DIV><SPAN class=580315217-23022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=580315217-23022003>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. </SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=580315217-23022003></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=580315217-23022003>jks<BR><SPAN class=020150310-24022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=580315217-23022003><SPAN class=020150310-24022003></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=580315217-23022003><SPAN class=020150310-24022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>-SU-27愀 and SU-35愀 are as good as the F-15, while the MIG-29 can match the F-16 in equal</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=580315217-23022003><SPAN class=020150310-24022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>-terms. Oscar class submarines are effective antiship weapons. AA missiles are almost as</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=580315217-23022003><SPAN class=020150310-24022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>-good as US ones and better than European stuff. Tu-22M愀 armed with long range cruise </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=580315217-23022003><SPAN class=020150310-24022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>-missiles are a real threat to USN CVBG愀. </FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class=580315217-23022003><SPAN class=020150310-24022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The big trouble is that they can愒 field too much </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=580315217-23022003><SPAN class=020150310-24022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>-of this hardware and they haven愒 developed much new equipment since 1990.</FONT> </SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=580315217-23022003><SPAN class=020150310-24022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>                                                                Alexandre Fenelon</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>