Russian Armed Forces great or not?

[Chief]

The emp would destroy all our technology not shielded for it. It would take the US months maybe years to recover. The Nuke itself would not, but the repercussions caused by the lack of power would throw a country like the US into chaos. That's if detonated in the center of the country of course, but it's still possible.

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Originally Posted by Chief

The emp would destroy all our technology not shielded for it. It would take the US months maybe years to recover. The Nuke itself would not, but the repercussions caused by the lack of power would throw a country like the US into chaos. That's if detonated in the center of the country of course, but it's still possible.

There is not a Nuke large eneogh to do that to the whole US even if detonated into the middle of the country. It would just piss us off and then we would nuke whoever was responsible.

[Henk]

Yes, there are no such a large nuke. I know about a thing they designed a few years back that can put a country into total black out and destray all there electonic systems and utterly defenceless.

Adler what do think how the Russian airforce compares to the US airfore today and during the cold war?

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

The Russian airforce is made up of some good aircraft, Mig-29, Su-27, etc.. however there avionics packages suck. They will not get very far with them because of that fact.

NATO airforces supported by AWACS would completely overtake them.

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i think too much emphasis today is put in EMPs, some of more cluless friends keep saying "well what if they just set off an EMP, then what're we gonna do"- yes, because you can just drop that big EMP bomb and every single electronic device would stop working, apart from the EMP machines that take up entire blocks at universities the only way you'll get a usefull EMP is with a nuke and not all electronics are succeptable to that, for example the old style valves aren't really affected by them (i believe part of the reason they were never replaced in the EE Lightening), whilst data linking and the sharing of inteligence will win the next war the grunts on the ground couldn't care less about EMPs!

[mkloby]

Originally Posted by DerAdlerIstGelandet

The Russian airforce is made up of some good aircraft, Mig-29, Su-27, etc.. however there avionics packages suck. They will not get very far with them because of that fact.

NATO airforces supported by AWACS would completely overtake them.

That's the truth. US air forces alone would annihilate the russian air force, let alone a fleet augmented by NATO forces. They have nothing to overcome the superiority of our avionics. Not even cobras and other nonsense aerobatics!