I have absolutely no concerns about US air or naval power facing off in a conventional war vs Russia. Russia doesn’t have the logistics, training, and can’t generate the combat readiness needed to go against a NATO coalition.
There is literally no scenario where the Chinese or Russians would be able to deny the US naval and air superiority. If war broke out over Iran the US would achieve air superiority in 96 hours. Every SAM site and usable airfield would be destroyed in the first 48 hours. Russia supposedly was considered a great power solely because of their infantry and land craft numbers yet now we are supposed to believe that since they’re getting exposed in this area they are actually a peer to the US technologically. FOH. NASA is literally testing knocking asteroids out of earths path
There is no area where Russia nor China is a peer to the USA
Well I don't usually get involved in these convos and though I think the Russians bit off a bit more than they could chew in Ukraine, @The M.I.C. comments have some context.
Russia's technology in anti-air defense (the S-300 and S-400), anti-ship and anti-sub hypersonic weapons, ballistic missiles, and some other advanced shyt is basically top of the line tech. It has long been knowledge that S-300 and S-400 are the premier AA weaponry and their hypersonic torpedo tech is just better. I trust the ballistic missiles fire right since they basically owned the space launch market until we got Elon and SpaceX up and running. Their cyber capabilities, which scare me the most, are something we don't want to see deployed in earnest.
Here's the problem: Russia (and also China) have developed tech to fight a war against us. Basically to beat Americans you have to deny us air superiority and naval superiority. They could send thousands and seamen and pilots home in caskets if they were in that kind of a fight...but they aren't. Fighting Ukrainians on their own soil requires a trained and motivated infrantry, good tanks, APCs, etc. and other things they haven't invested in as highly since a large land war didn't seem the most likely outcome. Javelins etc. were made to pop those things and the Ukrainians have used them well. I have a feeling Putin's mistakes probably came from overruling his generals in how to conduct this war but that is another story.
Part of the reason Ukraine gave the Russian Air Force that work and they can't freely bomb the country into submission is Ukraine has S-300s. That Stinger missile stuff can't do the job like those can.
This is basically a Russia-US-NATO proxy war though people don't like to admit that. We give the Ukrainians weapons, satellite imagery, we have AWACS planes in the Black Sea and E. Europe so they know about any Russian air support the minute it takes off, we have advisers on the ground etc. In this kind of situation, the offensive party doesn't do well. Look what happened to us in Vietnam when they had Soviet/Chinese support or when the Angolans/Cubans mopped up the South Africans in the late 1980s. Poor countries with Superpower backing defending their homeland rarely lose in the last 75 years. Their countries can be devastated in the process though. Our success in Iraq came because the Soviets were out of the picture and the Chinese were like IDGAF. On the other hand, Russia and China would likely be in the mix if we attacked Iran so we would see a similar disaster.
Gas prices are currently low not due to shale oil but because we are tapping the strategic oil reserves. We've taken out almost 200 million barrels this year or nearly 1/3; it is at its lowest level since 1984. If all was gravy we shouldn't have to do this. If we were doing this just to get cheaper oil (avg price of reserves is about $30/barrel) we should be replacing it with oil just in case but there has been ZERO input into the reserve this year.
Putin ain't no joke, ya'll, just wait. "
We just bodied that whole country with hand-me-downs we gave to a bunch of Eurotrash rednecks
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big nuts Biden
Sabine Hossenfelder had a good YouTube video on how theyre a hoax level threat. my guess is just another MIC gimmick to extract more defense dollars out of the government.Let’s please put this “Russian hypersonic missile” shyt to rest
The truth is, the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missile is actually little more than a conventional air-launched ballistic missile with a design that dates back to the 1980s.
It has benefited a great deal from both intentional and less-than-intentional misconceptions about this new class of weapons, often cited as a reason the United States is lagging behind Russia in a hypersonic arms race (that, as we've discussed before, isn't quite what it seems either).
That means all of the ICBMs in America's nuclear stockpile, all of Russia's Kinzhal missiles, and even Elon Musk's Falcon 9 reusable rockets all share the distinction of being hypersonic … and in fact, Russia's Kinzhal missile has more in common with those applications than it does with the newslew of "hypersonic weapons" nations like Russia, China, and the United States are competing to field.
Russia is trying to fool the world with its new 'hypersonic' Kinzhal missile
There are new weapons that leverage hypersonic speeds to achieve objectives in new or different ways. Russia's Kinzhal just isn't one of them.
Ayo you fukkin wilding in this thread
Patriotism is one thing but we got posters dead ass talking like they’re the Secretary Of DefenseI like how in these types of threads everyone becomes a patriot and/or war expert.
shyt is entertaining
Let’s please put this “Russian hypersonic missile” shyt to rest
The truth is, the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missile is actually little more than a conventional air-launched ballistic missile with a design that dates back to the 1980s.
It has benefited a great deal from both intentional and less-than-intentional misconceptions about this new class of weapons, often cited as a reason the United States is lagging behind Russia in a hypersonic arms race (that, as we've discussed before, isn't quite what it seems either).
That means all of the ICBMs in America's nuclear stockpile, all of Russia's Kinzhal missiles, and even Elon Musk's Falcon 9 reusable rockets all share the distinction of being hypersonic … and in fact, Russia's Kinzhal missile has more in common with those applications than it does with the newslew of "hypersonic weapons" nations like Russia, China, and the United States are competing to field.
Russia is trying to fool the world with its new 'hypersonic' Kinzhal missile
There are new weapons that leverage hypersonic speeds to achieve objectives in new or different ways. Russia's Kinzhal just isn't one of them.
