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You have to be able to detect a submarine to fire on it and the US is a long way ahead of Russia when it comes to both quiet submarines and passive towed arrays.

In fact the original argument for the super-cavitating torpedo was one based on the premise of killing a submarine that already fired on you that you hadn't detected until it fired on you.

Russia has some showy tech (as you mentioned) but they lack in areas the US was ahead of them in decades ago.

In terms of technology there are other countries with more sophisticated defence capabilties where I am from is one (the UK) is one, much of the technology the Russians export is things they did under the USSR (which definitely was #2 in terms of military tech at that point).

When you get down to it though modern war is force projection and logistics and there no one touches the Americans.




> modern war is force projection

The Russians seem to have projected pretty effectively in Crimea and Syria. They’re not back to their peak but they’re trending up.


Crimea was on their doorstep and Assad already had strong ties to the Russians.

The US Navy and marines are the 2nd largest Air Force in the world, the first been the US airforce.

Russia is clearly a regional power but it is not a superpower except in nuclear weapons but it would cease to exist shortly after using those.

I’ve no dog in the fight, I’m British but the US military is vast, it’s so mind bogglingly big that it’s just taken for granted at this point.

In tonnage of combatants the US navy is larger than the next 8 combined, 6 of who are allies.

It’s crazy how over gunned they are tbh and they spend less as a share of GDP than the Russians do.


Their peek was during the USSR and guess what happened then.

Their focus on aerospace just got nullified by SpaceX.

Their oil/gas is neglecting the accelerated shift from Europe to green energy.

So yeah, they still have military which was way bigger in the past and didn't got them anywhere.

The Ukraine story is not over and I don't think you have any idea why it was done.

It's because their fleet would be rendered useless is they can't control Ukraine and the black sea. And they don't control Ukraine yet :)

They did however already suffer pretty big losses because of it.




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