Russia's Military? What Do You Think?

Question

After viewing lots of footage the Russia invasion of Georgia, I do not feel as bad. Russia appears to be so unorganized, they are still using AK47's and Afghanistan era equipment. If America went to war with Russia it would be like fighting the Republican Guard. No contest what so ever.

Answer 1

You are obviously Ill-informed of the Russian miltary. They are just as up to date on technology as we are and hold a larger population. To go to war with Russia would destroy both of our economies.

Also I think you're mistaking the AK 74 for the AK 47

Answer 2

I don't know what kind of crack you smoke but if you think Russia would be an easy win, it must be some bomb sh*t.

Answer 3

they're invading georgia so of course they're gonna use their smaller and cheaper weapons. and russia's military is extremely powerful

Answer 4

Well they do have enough nukes to kill the world five times over...

Answer 5

do you know that ak47 is still the most reliable rifle for war. it can be used in water, sand, dirt est. and my friend who served in iraq told me that he always had with him ak47 in his Humvee. and when they went under attack he would use that ak47 and it save his life many times.

Answer 6

lmfao usa has weapons tht dont exist XDDD

omg yeah thts for sure, so sad u cant tell if ur sources are the cartoons or the comic books lol

as for russia, ak47 is not used any more, at least not in the army, yeah its the different modifications of ak74 which are not so bad :) and know, i dont think tht russia wud "send the worst it had" cuz man dont be stupid, why wud they risk soldiers lives just in order to keep the technologies away? does tht make any sense at all?

Answer 7

You are wrong.

Russia has a very strong and effective army,

Answer 8

wow you don't know how powerful Russia is. russia controls most of the worlds oil and energy supply our tanks wont be effective with out gas to make them run  

Answer 9

I don't know if it would be like fighting the Republican Guard, but if we lined our conventional forces up against theirs, without the use of nukes, we would have air superiority in a very quick way. They do have some good equipment, and don't knock the AK-47 as its still the best rifle ever made and better than anything we had for years, however, our fighters are much more organized, our equipment works and is more sophisticated, and they would sh*t if we pulled our forces out of Iraq and Afghanistan and brought them up to their turf. They are taking advantage of a weak situation at the moment, but don't p**s us off too much or we will start the draft and kick a*s. People seems to forget that we have a purely volunteer military at the moment and we are fighting more than two fronts at the moment and the Russians just better not "spit in Superman's face" because if we turn our attention over to Russia, they will surely have to pull their nukes because we will vanquish their conventional forces.

Answer 10

The Russians are better than the Republican Guard but it's still no contest. The Russians are a generation behind the US in military technology. Then again, the Russians were never all that advanced technologically anyway.  The biggest Russian military fear factor has always been their greater numbers. We have seen that on the 21st century battlefield, technology negates numbers.

Lenin described the Red Army best when he said, "Quantity has a quality all it's own."

Answer 11

They're a lot tougher than you might think, they wouldn't be a pushover like the Republican Guard was, but you're basic premise that they're not as good as advertised is correct. But still, a war with Russia would be a major war that would require a WW II-like effort in order to win.  But being technologically superior, and having a population twice the size of theirs, we have built in advantages, and that's not counting the potential of 400 million Europeans being on our side.  

Answer 12

If America went to war....NO ONE could defeat her!

(I am not in the U.S.)

But....I know one weapon, very few know of or believe she has....and

It does the job!!!  1000%(NOT 100%)...

America......will NEVER allow  anyone to beat her.

She has weapons  none knows about!!

So yes....no  contest  to Anyone  who takes her on.

She has  weapons that do not even exist!...(think hard on that)?

Answer 13

i doubt. obviously russia is aware of georgia's military strength ( it was theirs just years ago ) and so russia sent in just sufficient military hardware to deal with it. also war is not just about equipment but also terrain, weather, surprise attack, figthing determination, population support and other intangibles. russia is a formidable enemy and anyone who doubts that ( napoleon, hitler, etc ) are doomed to fail.

Answer 14

You forgot one little detail that makes russia different from Iraq/Afghanistan.  Russia has nukes, and the firepower to blow Washington DC off the map if we were in an all-out war. For all intents and purposes, we have the ability to nuke Moscow as well, but thats beside the point.

Answer 15

They actually are carrying the latest generation AK-74, AKS-74 and AKS-74U (Krinkov). Their armored personnel carriers the BMP have been in use for around 40 years now because they are as good as it gets. They got the design right the first time, so there has been no need to develop anything else. Of course like everything else in any superpower's stockpile they have been constantly upgraded. Russia's weapons are simplistic yet sturdy, which is a huge advantage when you are waging a large scale war. U.S. weapon's systems, the infantry M-4 carbine in particular, are way over engineered and prone to overheating, jamming and breakage under the harshest combat conditions. Conditions that the Russians know to well from their experience in "The Great Patriotic War" (World War Two). The M-4 is better suited to static combat and short missions whereas the AK-47/74 family of weapons are more suited to an army on the move that has little time for weapons maintenance and repairs.

Answer 16

Thats funny seeing as how we cant even finish a third world country Like Afghanistan ( not that Russia could ) but Afghanistan had the help of a super power then, the US. What super power is backing them now? And we dont even have enough troops to finish waht we are in already, so what are we going to do against the closest thing to a super power Russia?