The Hill: Experts warn weapons gap is shrinking between US, Russia and China
Competitors like Russia and China are closing the advanced weapons gap with the United States, aiming to push the U.S. out of areas on their front doorstep.
Experts say they're improving their ability to target U.S. aircraft and ships, pushing the U.S. military farther away from potential conflict zones and constraining its ability to use force in regions such as the Baltic Sea and the South China Sea.
"Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. military has never really had to fight an enemy that had its own arsenal of precision-guided weapons," said Mark Gunzinger, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
"It was able to use air bases and other bases located fairly close to the borders of an enemy because there wasn't that much of an air and missile threat to those bases,” he said. “That’s changing.”
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Update: US Worried That Military Advantage Over Russia, China Getting Ever Smaller (Sputnik).
WNU Editor: I sense another arms race is about to begin.
Yep eventually u.s airforce and armoured corp will catch up to russia.
ReplyDeleteArmata and su37 u.s has no equivalent
Well the race is on,
ReplyDeleteand the winner loses all
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Ha, it's not even a close call yet. The last time Russian tried to equal the US in military hardware, they went bankrupt and the country disintegrated. Granted the new Russian air defense system is rumored to be very good, but it has yet to be tested in combat against US aircraft. The problem is, if you can't see them you can't shoot them. But the second you turn your air defense system's radar on, you die.
ReplyDeleteTanks are becoming a thing of the past. On a modern battlefield they will make for big and slow targets for drones with anti tank missile systems, and single soldier operated anti tank systems. That being said, the M1A1 US main battle tank is still the king of the armored world till a rival matches it on the battlefield.
Russian is alot closer to bankruptcy and revolution than anything resembling parody on the battlefield. This reality will remain for a very long time.