End of USA military dominance.

[RandomGuy]

english isnt going to win this debate, they need to spend some of their debts to teach you how to speak bilingual.

Wir koennen alles auf Deutch reden, ob sie wollen.

[RandomGuy]

Stalingrad showed that the most patriotic thing Russians do for their country is dying. It is how they have kept their nation safe.

In light of that, Russians have figured out that they can keep their country safe long-term by simply dying off en masse. The UN estimates that Russia's population will have shrunk by one-third by 2050. This is why Kobe24Forever struts with such bravado. He knows the relentless dying of the Russian people will make them invincible. I imagine that last living Russian person in the year 2100 or so will be all but omnipotent.

At the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union had a total population of nearly 290 million, and a Gross National Product estimated at about $2.5 trillion. At that time, the United States had a total population of nearly 250 million, with a Gross Domestic Product of about $5.2 trillion. That is, the population of the United States was smaller than that of the Soviet Union, with an economy that was only twice that of the Soviet Union. Two decades later, Russia's population is about 140 million, with a GDP of about $1.3 trillion, while the population of the United States is over 300 million, with a GDP of $13 trillion. Today, the population of the United States is twice that of Russia, and the US economy is ten times as large.

[RandomGuy]

Ok, 'nuff of the fun.

Adios.

[jman3000]

x 100000 @ thinking India and Pakistan would join the same coalition.

Are you ing re ed?

Does that question even need to be asked?

[Wild Cobra]

Russia beat back the Germans because it was ing cold.

Besides that, the Germans were the agressors, and the soldiers obayed out of fear rather than believing in the cause. The Russians were fighting for their homeland.

[jman3000]

I'm leaning towards this guy being Chinese and not Russian.

[RandomGuy]

Russian spies and Anti-Moose and Squirrel technology vill be making you all kneel...



We have thousands of magic-water-powered AMS systems now, and silly nazi propaganda is making me laugh at ur dumbness.

[Wild Cobra]

The united states marines are made of aproximately 1 in 5 gay men, they are poorly trained and demand to have buttsex every now and then or they will sue for money, the marines have been known to chicken out and run when the going gets tough while screaming like little girls.

quoted from the ing CIA, dont tell me where i got it or else i have to kill you.

Is that you Boutons?

[jman3000]

On the post stating that Russia's population has dipped from 290 million to140 million in 20 years... is that possible? Is that just accounting for the lost population due to the satellites breaking off?

Was it the 1-2 generations of baby makig it lost due to WWII?

The number just seems so unfathomable.

[The Reckoning]

He's a pretty typical Kobe fan.

Those Russians were badasses in Afghanistan. We're truly ed when they enlist all their mafia and mail-order brides for the big war.

more like bride-ordered males

[Yonivore]

And, don't forget the newest kid on the block:

[MannyIsGod]

I have no idea what that is but I really hope that dude's name is not Dave.

[Yonivore]

I have no idea what that is but I really hope that dude's name is not Dave.

Airborne Laser. It can kill ICBM's in the launch or boost phase; or it can kill you as you sit on the can reading porn.

[MannyIsGod]

Nice - are they planning to mount that on a plane?

[jman3000]

Airborne Laser. It can kill ICBM's in the launch or boost phase; or it can kill you as you sit on the can reading porn.

can it kill you on the pot while youre in launch phase?

[jman3000]

i'd imagine a plane delivery system would be too slow to respond... unless you planned on keeping an airplane on patrol indefinately. either that or it has a crazy range.

[Yonivore]

i'd imagine a plane delivery system would be too slow to respond...

Not necessarily, depending on deployment strategy and number of resources in the air.

unless you planned on keeping an airplane on patrol indefinately.

What do you think we did for damn near 40 years? There are a lot of B-52 pilots from the Cold War that spent more time in the air than on the ground.

...either that or it has a crazy range.

Well, there's that too.

[RandomGuy]

Nice - are they planning to mount that on a plane?

It is already mounted on the plane.

Don't think that military hardware gurus aren't drooling over the next generation of batteries either.

Honest to God Laser-mother- ing-rifles, biyatches.

Combine battery technology with the military pushing for individual units to have their own solar collectors, and you have infantry units that don't need to be supplied with bullets, and have a line-of-sight laser rifles capable of burning a hole through your head at thousands of meters.

Sniper school will never be the same...

[Yonivore]

It is already mounted on the plane.

Don't think that military hardware gurus aren't drooling over the next generation of batteries either.

Honest to God Laser-mother- ing-rifles, biyatches.

Combine battery technology with the military pushing for individual units to have their own solar collectors, and you have infantry units that don't need to be supplied with bullets, and have a line-of-sight laser rifles capable of burning a hole through your head at thousands of meters.

Sniper school will never be the same...

End of our military dominance my hairy ass.

[Blake]

how did this thread go 5 pages in less than a day.....

definitely not the end of USA posting dominance

[jman3000]

What do you think we did for damn near 40 years? There are a lot of B-52 pilots from the Cold War that spent more time in the air than on the ground.

id imagine it woud have to be done in shifts... keeping such a big aircraft aloft for so long just doesnt sound very healthy from a mechanical point of view. i know you can refuel in midair.. but you cant do engine inspections and what not.

[2centsworth]

WWII was won in the factories in the United States, producing Tanks, Planes & Ships at a pace unprecedented, and unimaginable before.

The U.S. was underestimated; both its resolve, willingness to sacrifice its people for a just cause, AND in it capacity to produce weapons.

Stop listening to your isolated, agenda - driven professor (or teacher), and actually LEARN FROM HISTORY.

a big reason why the Auto Manufacturers are important.

[smeagol]

Quality entertainment thread

[AFBlue]

What an entertaining thread....and so factually inaccurate I don't even know where to start.

How about the technology gap...

The F-22 can outmaneuver any operational SU aircraft. But it doesn't even matter, because the F-22 has a vastly superior avionics suite. The radar on the F-22 is so good they had to modify the current AIM-9 (missle) to travel farther. Let's just say, while the SU-27 is doing backflips the F-22 has targeted it from a couple hundred miles out, fired its missles, and is on its way back to home base by the time the SU gets lit up.

And the funny thing is...the F-22 isn't even the most advanced aircraft in development. Someone mentioned the F-117 retiring. The F-117, our first-gen stealth aircraft, has flown missions for damn near 20 years and is out the door. Meanwhile, the US has produced it's second gen (F-22) and is onto its third generation of stealth fighters (F-35). Where is Russia at with their stealth technology again...in development?

And what about Russia's UAV program...in development?

That doesn't even begin to discuss the gap in training, which is by and large where the US gains its most significant strategic advantage.

No, I sincerely doubt the US will surrender its Air Supremacy anytime in the near future, and I wouldn't put the Russians at the top of the list for countries that would represent a challenge.

[Yonivore]

What an entertaining thread....and so factually inaccurate I don't even know where to start.

How about the technology gap...

The F-22 can outmaneuver any operational SU aircraft. But it doesn't even matter, because the F-22 has a vastly superior avionics suite. The radar on the F-22 is so good they had to modify the current AIM-9 (missle) to travel farther. Let's just say, while the SU-27 is doing backflips the F-22 has targeted it from a couple hundred miles out, fired its missles, and is on its way back to home base by the time the SU gets lit up.

And the funny thing is...the F-22 isn't even the most advanced aircraft in development. Someone mentioned the F-117 retiring. The F-117, our first-gen stealth aircraft, has flown missions for damn near 20 years and is out the door. Meanwhile, the US has produced it's second gen (F-22) and is onto its third generation of stealth fighters (F-35). Where is Russia at with their stealth technology again...in development?

And what about Russia's UAV program...in development?

That doesn't even begin to discuss the gap in training, which is by and large where the US gains its most significant strategic advantage.

No, I sincerely doubt the US will surrender its Air Supremacy anytime in the near future, and I wouldn't put the Russians at the top of the list for countries that would represent a challenge.

Well said.