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Originally Posted by Skybird
Modern Russian missiles have very long legs that outrun Western missiles.
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This because russian doctrine, inherited from USSR times, calls for a huge SAM umbrella while NATO doctrine was centered in airplanes to achieve air superiority.
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Better technology can compensate numerical inferiority to a certain degree - and not beyond.
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Quantity has a quality all of its own.
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America never has confronted top modern Russian equipment and top trained Russian experts in combination. Beating less trained personnel of third world armies with B- and C-grade equipement of export quality, does not really tell you the ultimate truth about how it would end with the real enemy in place.
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Lets hope it stays this way....