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Although Russia’s military budget is 20 times smaller than NATO’s, it’s able to get a much bigger bang for its buck, as it has the world’s most powerful thermonuclear arsenal, the most powerful ground force, the second largest air force, as well as the second largest navy on the planet.
Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst
Most experts agree that the Russian military is the second most powerful on the planet, even when disregarding weapons of mass destruction. When included, the discrepancy between the US and Russia on one hand and the rest of the world on the other is even more pronounced. Either way, Russia’s military power is undeniable.
However, up until relatively recently, much of its military might was the result of Soviet-era legacy. Prior to the late 2000s, the Russian military was essentially a smaller extension of the Soviet Armed Forces. The aftermath of its 2008 performance in Georgia led to a reform that essentially created the modern-day Russian military. Doctrinal changes set in motion since then have transformed Moscow’s tactical military power in ways not seen in approximately half a century.
One of the first changes that were implemented was making the Russian military more compact and mobile. Large and cumbersome Soviet-era formations which relied on massed equipment and millions of men were replaced by much better quality-quantity ratio units with superior coordination and ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) capabilities. This proved to be extremely effective on the battlefield where a relatively small Russian contingent managed to not just stop the advance of ISIS and other foreign-backed terrorist groups which were ravaging Syria, but also help the country push back and retake territories lost over the years. With approximately 155,000-200,000 terrorists neutralized during Russia’s intervention in Syria, while never having more than a few thousand soldiers and a couple of dozen aircraft to support them at any given moment, Moscow proved how capable its armed forces are.
Lancet-3, screen grab from Russia-24 report.
The remnants of the massive Soviet military at home were thoroughly modernized during the late 2000s-early 2020s, which proved invaluable during Russia’s counteroffensive in Ukraine. However, the modernization program had to be overhauled as the experience fighting the Kiev regime forces showed the need to approach this process a bit differently. The importance of unmanned systems, particularly armed drones and loitering munitions was proven on the battlefield. The Russian military also had to make doctrinal adjustments to make its units even more effective. In addition, the arms industry started optimizing its research and development, production, etc. in order to better use its resources. This made it possible to not just maintain, but also increase production efficiency.
Another important aspect is Russia’s strategic military doctrine and it’s precisely this component of the superpower’s overall defense policy that worries the political West (particularly America) the most. In 2019, the Pentagon projected that Russia’s military power would peak in 2028 and that the US should do everything it can to prevent Moscow from following through with its armament program. One of the ways of doing that was escalating the Ukrainian crisis to a point where the Eurasian giant would have no other choice but to intervene, resulting in the derailment of the plan, as well as the depletion of existing Russian forces. The expectation was that Moscow’s economy would effectively be in tatters due to sanctions and that this would make the implementation of the armament program virtually impossible.
However, the belligerent thalassocracy miscalculated the robustness of the Russian economy, while also overestimating the impact of sanctions on Moscow’s technological prowess. Not only is Russia still able to produce advanced weapons, but it also continues developing world-class missiles and other types of armaments. The country remains the world leader in hypersonic technologies, so much so that its NATO competitors keep sending spies and trying to bribe/coerce Russian scientists into selling their know-how. Several people have been arrested due to this in recent years, which has been admitted by the Western mainstream propaganda machine, even though they’re still insisting Russia is “technologically backward”.
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Other advances include new types of tanks, armored vehicles, UGVs (unmanned ground vehicles), drones, etc. for the Russian Ground Forces. The Russian Navy is also getting dozens of new advanced submarines, both nuclear-powered and diesel-electric, underwater drones, as well as a plethora of surface combatants. The Russian Aerospace Forces are getting new types of aircraft, including state-of-the-art drones, particularly those controlled by advanced AI, next-generation fighter jets, strategic stealth and conventional bombers (or missile carriers, as they’re known in Russian military nomenclature), etc.
The Strategic Missile Forces, which operate the most powerful weapons in the history of mankind, are getting new ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles), as well as advanced HGVs (hypersonic glide vehicles), which are quite literally without analogs anywhere in the world. At the same time, Russia is expanding its already impressive capabilities in space and space defense, making it virtually impossible to conduct orbital attacks against the country without almost immediate retaliation.
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And yet, the fact that Russia is able to do all this despite being under virtual siege, while also conducting its counteroffensive against NATO’s crawling aggression, is what worries the Pentagon the most. Although the entire belligerent alliance has a combined budget of $1.3 trillion (over 60% of global military spending), Russia’s is $65 billion (just over 3% of the world’s total), approximately 20 times smaller.
Still, Russia is able to get a significantly bigger bang for its buck, as it maintains the world’s most powerful thermonuclear arsenal, the most powerful ground force, the second largest air force, as well as the second largest navy on the planet. If this were to continue until 2030, the Pentagon projects that Russia will be far ahead of NATO’s capabilities in many key areas.
Combined with China’s unrelenting rise in military might, which is also projected to reach its zenith in the early 2030s, the US is faced with the geopolitical nightmare of having to contend with not one, but two superpowers with near-peer capabilities (at best) or significantly more advanced strategic advantages (at worst).
I know that things that explode are cool but what russia needs are better and more satelites,
better and more recon drones and planes. A integrated friend/ foe system together with
all the donbas and other militias that fight in ukraine on their side.
And they need means to block the communication channels from the polish and romanian based us and british commanders and their ukrainian and mercenary troops in the battlefield.
Every russian troop movement is known in real time on the ukrainian side and every hole in the defence
is abused.
While russia has to send in troops to check if there is an enemy in the region. Troops which are often ambushed with the intel of the west. So better intel to loose less troops.
Cause the russian commandres may have not realised yet but they cant just throw masses of humans on the enemy since they do not have them like they had in ww2.
ukraine had not this received donations its tapir
you know what Russia needs? Less corruption , the real equipment really supplied to it’s troops. Real training for soldiers in tactics, use of radio, fire coordination, tactics instead of beating recruits by an old inept idiot Polcovnik. If they would have that, war would be over by now, but money went to yachts, soldiers slept in post, vehicles weren’t mantained …
The question of the automatic friend/foe system just proved it’s importance recently when Ukraine bombed airfields deep inside Russian territory with soviet made drones. So the defence should not be based on these systems alone. An intelligent consideration of the direction of a weapon would have prevented the attack of the airfields. On the other hand the weapons should get a different friend/foe marking for every new conflict.
The question of the realtime reconnaissance of the Russian troops by the Ukrainians is not necessaryly a question of foreign satelites. The above mentioned attack on Russian airfields by the use of soviet made drones shows that it also can be a result of the Ukrainian use of such drones for reconnaissance purposes. If the number of friends in the air is higher than the number of active own weapons, it is clear that the enemy uses the implemented friend/foe system to trick the defence and meassures must be taken to prevent this.
You should talk about what the losing side, NATO, will need to do to catch up with Russia.
You should stop broadcasting NATO propaganda, Russia is not using mass wave attacks, and Russia has more than enough satellites and drones to kill off as many NATO fanboys as NATO can send.
all chinese asian tech is copied stolen
American loves the equipment of the former Soviet Union
at least the Asian’s can make it work
i love the graphic used. the T-14 has 3 rounds an, auto-loader, needs one crew member, goes 13.2 Km faster, is taller but overall smaller, is lighter, can go 74 km further, than the Abrams.
but to top it all off, its 2.2 million cheaper.
it;s not, the price of 4 mils is absurd for an Armata. A T72B3 , modernised, costs over 4.5 mils . An armata is easily over 6 mils
Nice to see that reflxion. Abrams also are many kinds.
That’s a coping sentence.
You should wonder why those Armatas are not crawling all over. The Abrams do and in many versions.
You also should chack up ranks. Here the German upgraded Leopard and several others are better. The Armata has not even been tested in Real Combat. We hardly see any T90s in Ukraine as well.
You also ignore the autoloader system now easy can be knocked up by drones hitting the top of the tanks.
Russia don’t want to show it’s abillities to Nato, that’s why they use updated older weapons not their new ones.
T-14 ARMATA I am with high expectations about the new tank of the generation.
T14 – Armata cost 4 millions? i doubt it. A t72B3 costs 4.5 mils with all sistems on , an Armata platform is probably around 6-7 mils
Still coping Jack?
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AFU and US UK regular soldiers pretend dressing as Ukraine soldiers have suffer heavy loss of life because human wave cannon fodder tactics, sad US and UK will sell their widows and daughters as prostitutes and sex slaves in US and UK lol.
AFU and US UK regular soldiers pretend dressing as Ukraine soldiers have suffer heavy loss of life because human wave cannon fodder tactics, sad US and UK will sell their widows and daughters as prostitutes and sex slaves in US and UK lol.
Russia is the greatest military power on Earth. Money spent on the military is a poor indicator of effectiveness and power.
they just copy creative russia
Love Russia – but they don´t have “the second largest navy on the planet.” – number 1 and 2 is either USA or China – depending on tonnage or number of ships.
Icarus Tanovic, JHK and Cuckmander Hebrew are battling for the psychopath of 2022.
Yeah and this guy called Chris Gr, ONG he is worse than (the real) jens holm.
I am not psychopath
Russian military doctrine and fighting strategies are so ridiculous and stupid it wouldn’t matter what weapons they had.
AFU and US UK regular soldiers pretend dressing as Ukraine soldiers have suffer heavy loss of life because human wave cannon fodder tactics, sad US and UK will sell their widows and daughters as prostitutes and sex slaves in US and UK lol.
Worlds strongest ground forces?
After 10 Months in Ukraine, dont Look like even under the top 20.
How many years did it take USA to conquer tiny North Korea or Viet Nam?
Sure.
But with 3 Times more troops from the beginning the whole Thing would be done since months.
Especially US was running away from Taliban.
AFU and US UK regular soldiers pretend dressing as Ukraine soldiers have suffer heavy loss of life because human wave cannon fodder tactics, sad US and UK will sell their widows and daughters as prostitutes and sex slaves in US and UK lol.
How many years US was in Afghanistan before running away fromvTaliban lol.
your day of JUDGEMENT is NOT COMING NAZI USA but IS ALREADY HERE YOU WILL PERISH DOWN THE TOILET OF HISTORY the END is NOT BEGINNING but HAS ALREADY ARRIVED and NOW YOUR IN YOUR DEATH THROES NAZI USA> =Z=
To bother people as usual.
The Russians and Chinese are essentially partners. If it isn’t obvious already, Chinese trains and planes packed with useful stuff arrive at Russia twice a week. Everything from drones, radios, war materials, and possibly semiconductors, chips, parts all come from Chinese factories. Who have UNLIMITED industrial potential.
Slav shit: “ruSsiA aRmY STronGesT iN thE wOrld”
Ukrainazi: Hold my vodka.
Hahaha
“America” (sic) aka the disgUSting angloZionaZi empire of shit wants a lot of things….but it’s reign is already over. The one thing it can surely look forward to is a tsunami of toxic derivative shit as its flushed IOU fiat filth Saudimercan toilet paper dollah washes home to Slumville in the coming years. The debt bomb is the real bomb and unless the filth in Washing town decide to blow the planet to “save” their wobbly asses Washing town is going down the sewer that it richly deserves. As with the zionist garbage in Palestine, the free lunch for welfare warfare critters on the rest of humanity’s dime is all gobbled up. No more war on credit!
Now comes payback and major karma.
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The USMIC has been allowed to gorge for decades. It is now stuffed full and finding it difficult to move very quickly.
All that US budget has gone into private pockets. Reality, much like the moon landing, is faked for the masses. They are told something else in order to get them angry and prevent any critical thinking.
The western brinkmanship is going to backfire spectacularly. The rogue western gov’ts are destroying their own economies and oppressing their own people yet they are playing games with other superpowers which could end all life on this planet. Games they intend to throw western lives at. Your lives.
The pollution will be horrendous. Where is their self righteous calls for saving the planet now?
GO Russia/China, don’t stop and rest for a second, keep on advancing with your military tech, stay vigilant with your tech, don’t let it reach the hands of the Zionist Israeli whore West, may you both be the guardians of world peace.