Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Why are RUSSIAN ARMS failing SO BADLY? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

  1. The US would not be tracking individual lanches what they would be doing is watching for atmosphere effects such as thermal signals. The idea that Russia can launch low travelling nuclear missiles that can travel across the ocean at hundreds of feet of atmosphere is nothings short of ridiculous. They have to use high altitude launches that descend and those would stand out like a sore thumb. Russia's real threat is that they can launch from submarines but that is a complex procedure on its own. Britain has a much better aerospace industry and even they struggle with submarine launches.
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  2. That may have worked 50 years ago where precision and detection was nowhere near what it is today. Having missiles today that require high altitude launch and descend would stand out like a sore thumb. Such systems can easily be tracked by laser with other exotic methods and the Russians have to know this as well.
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  3. It would be good against smaller military forces due to the large scale but when it comes a well trained military based on western culture it would get destroyed even if that military is several times smaller. Japan for example would wipe the floor with them on every level.
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  4. Military culture cannot just be introduced on a whim and has to take generations to develop.
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  5. US weapons design and manufacture is based on the culture of the country which is about high levels of quality at vast scales. The US has been producing about 7 million cars per year for the last 60 years. And produces many thousands of high tech machines, aircraft, satellites and home entertainment. That all comes from culture.
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  6. Nuclear weapons and oil.
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  7. The probably have systems that work but not enough for full nuclear exchange. Nuclear weapons have been way overhyped.
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  8. Nuclear weapons are mechanical systems that require maintenance. And the skills required to achieve that cannot just be done at will. Such a culture of science and technology has to be developed over decades. And then there was always the question how well did they work in the first place. It is one thing to set off a nuclear reaction and another to have an operational warhead.
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  9.  @Suksass  The oil does when it is combined with Nuclear weapons. Without the oil their now why they would exist as a country.
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  10.  @Морозов-ь7с  Launching for a video is not the same as deploying in a critical attack and doing it successfully. Sub launches are some of the most complex there are from a technical point of view.
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  11.  @dennisbrown5313  Taking all of that aside and just focusing on Russian engineering for a moment. I am saying that Russia simply would not have an easy time of just launching on their own never mind the capabilities of US defence systems. There is the factor that Russia warheads are based on mechanical systems that are 50 years old and it is unlikely based on the evidence of their performance in Ukraine that they would have an enough missiles for full nuclear exchange. There is a high probability that US sensor networks are capable of tracking the majority of Russian assets. I also suspect Russia knows all of this as well.
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  12. They are mechanical systems that require lots of maintenance.
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  13. Overall worked better?
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  14.  @daveansell1970  Free Market and liberty are just better.
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  15.  @daveansell1970  Free market is always better hence why you are using technology from the free market. Everything around you is from the free market.
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  16.  @piotrd.4850  The US is nothing like the design bureaus of the USSR. The US has a marketplace where the best survive based on their market capabilities.
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  17.  @michaelryder9885  The West considers them to be a deterrent but does the East?
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  18. All mechanical systems require maintenance. Most of the Russian nuclear warheads are 50 years old. They have had little maintenance. There is then the problem how well made where they to begin with. We are talking about a country that murder tens of millions of its own people while making lots of fancy looking aircraft and missiles. A complex project that everybody got to see was the Soviet equivalent of Concord that was based on stolen designs. But here is also an issue Russia nuclear warheads are based on stolen designs from the US as they could not do it on their own.
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  19. The US military like Roman 2000 years ago is based on the market economy. It means development and advancement is based on commercial success. It then gives the government the power to build really fancy things and people mistakenly assume that it is the government building it because of lots of wealth. The iphone 13 is much more powerful than iphone 1 and the F-35 is much power powerful than the F-4.
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