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This channel posts a lot of Russia is doomed stuff that has not, yet, come to fruition; but they continue to make decent points that deserve further investigation.
The assertion that they're not even spending China levels on maintenance for their nuclear deterrent is something to pay attention to.
China is kind of famous for not having the means to deliver much of its arsenal, on top of corruption that definitely hobbles its utility.
On paper the Russians have more nukes ready to fly than the US, but aren't even spending as much as France or the UK, whom have much smaller numbers of warheads and missiles?
One wonders, just exactly, how many of their delivery systems still work.
The mention of how old many of their ICBM designs are isn't necessarily valid. Our main missile is the LGM-30G Minuteman, first fielded in 1970! Our main missile is C&R eligible! But we test ours on the regular, it appears that Russia doesn't.
It still pisses me off that we got rid of the Peacekeepers. I was at the JSTPS when they came online. Our office did the deconfliction and made the targeting tapes and documents for ICBMs and SLBMs.
ReplyDeleteBlessed are the Peacekeepers, for they shall immolate the Earth. (If necessary.)
Deletei would prefer not to find out...one launched towards us is one too many...panzer guy
ReplyDeleteAfter the fall of the Soviet Union, it was discovered that the Soviet nuclear deterrent was very much maskrova and a Potemkin military.
ReplyDeleteEven more interesting was that certain agencies in the US knew this but kept it hidden to keep the scared up.
The B-52 first flew back in the 1950s, and it's still keepin' right on.
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