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Rusty by still deadly 
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Was that the rocket with the Mars explorer on it that failed to get into orbit? That's like the forth try in the past two months, isn't it?
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Yeah it was just a civil satellite. That time...
But once again, in case of WWIII, no one will be using "100,000+ with MIGs, tanks, attack helicopters, artillery, armored troop transports and so on" against the real EXTERNAL enemy. At least according to the official Russian military doctrine which isists using of tactical nukes even in "small conflicts" (e.g. against aircraft carriers).
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I believe their military doctrine states they can use nukes only if their country was both invaded AND threatened.
I would imagine that's common with all nuclear countries.
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There is no USSR anymore, but it doesn't change anything. Russia is the only post-USSR country that have all the nuclear potential of Soviet Union. Everything doesn't matter.
Yea they still have a military and nukes but they are still not what they used to be. Hell it wasn't til just a few years ago that Russia's Navy was still mothballed.
One nuke - one carrier. Easy arithmetic, isn't it? According to the US sources, only one old good battle cruiser like "Moskva" equipped with Granit is able to destroy at least two aircraft carriers. |
People don't seem to understand the term "blue water navy". This means that their Navy can operate anywhere in the world at sea. You can't just sent a warship around the world; It needs to be resupplied at friendly ports, etc. The only countries that have blue water Navys are the US, UK, and the French.
In other words, Russia might have the ability to destroy an aircraft carrier, but this assumes that it would be able to find it and engage it without being taken out long in advance.