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Fascist Canuck · #12 (**permalink**) 02-27-2008, 07:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Fear-And-Loathing

Nobody is afraid of the USA?

Well if nobody is afraid of the USA, then Russia must be a pushover.

Plywood Rambo?

Tell me you 'Russian Bear' how's the whole Russian Navy thing going? Oh right, there is no Navy, it's all in port rotting away while the American one grows and gets more advanced each day......

Hows the Army? Still bogged down in Chechnya? Still got Conscription? Do you have Conscription for fun or b/c no one wants to join the Army that has been fighting in Chechnya for oh i don't know 15 years?

And the Air Force, well um All I say to that is look at your primary Strategic Bomber.

So to conclude the Russian Military is a joke, cannot even hold down a Seperatist movement within the country and when it sends bombers around they're always escorted by NATO fighters....

Was it like that in the Cold War? No. How big was the Soviet economy? Second. How big is the Soviet, I mean Russian economy now? Seventh.

See where I'm driving at now?

So you still claim the Russian military would not be ******* themselves if they went to war with the US? Neigh you claim that any country would not **** themselves if they went to war with the US?

Didn't think so

*ROTFLMAO @ the post of the Soviet 'Bear' bomber* No, no. That's not their strategic bomber. This is:

The Russian in this thread was right. Read below:

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According to press reports in the late 1980s, a defector stated that the Backfire regularly conducted exercises at intercontinental range, that this intercontinental range was greater than the Bison's, that the Backfire had a screw-in type refueling probe, that this screw-in refueling probe was stockpiled for every Backfire at all bomber bases, and that the Soviets had an active program of camouflage, concealment, and deception to mislead the West about the intercontinental range capability of the Backfire.

And yes, the Americans were afraid of this plane. The proof is below:

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The US proposed to the Soviets that they sign a politically binding declaration outside of START, which would commit them to: (1) not give the Backfire an intercontinental capability by air-to-air refueling or by any other means; (2) deploy no more than 400 Backfire; and (3) include all Backfire -- including naval Backfire--in the Conventional Forces in Europe [CFE] aircraft limits.