Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "Do modern Russian Air Forces have a big problem?" video.
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Soviet Union was economically 1.5 times less developed than German Reich and half of occupied Europe (France, half of Poland, ChehoSlovakia, YougoSlavia, Greece) - GDP of USSR - 530 billion US$, GDP of Germany with all ocupued territories in 1941 - ~800 billion US$. Also we must not forget that Germany was in war with UK at that time - building of Atlantic wall cost
10 billion $ to Germany in period of 1941-44, production of submarines for battle in Atlantic was larger in spent of iron than production of tanks during all war, in the British air Germany lost more than a 1.5 thousand aircrafts. Also Germany hold ~half of it's troops (Germany had 7.4 million) in the rears. Soviet Union had 2.66 times more population - 160 million own population, but from which only a part is loyal to Soviet governent or Russia. - let's say 2.25 times. Germany had 60 million own population. In the start of the war Soviet Union had equal to German in numbers of troops army, with 5 times more vechicles. (5.7 milion troops, 4.6 in European part, 21 thousand tanks, 20 thousands aircrafts, 56 thousand artillery, ~370 thousand supply trucks and ~54 thousand large tracktors. Germany prepared for Soviet campagin 4.1 milion troops, 6 thousands tanks, 4 thousands aircrafts, 11 thousands artillery, 70 thousand supply trucks and 10 thousand large trackrors. And even with 2.25 times more population, with equal economy, with much bigger army, Soviet Union lost 11.9 million soldiers in combat and 1.8 in captivity against 4.2 million Axis combat and 0.4 million captivity casualities, totaly losing first 2 years of war with 7 to 1 casuality ratio dead and 3 millions troops surendered. During Napoleonic wars there was familliar situation.
Modern Russian economy - 3.5 trillion US$, while US and NATO - ~35-40 trillion US$. 110 millions own population against ~1.3 billion. Russian army is much, much smaller than NATO. Soviet Union had German millitary technologies, that were taken in 1941 by Molotov-Rebbuntrop pact - millitary production equipment, vechicle sights, systems, that were copied and put into massive production. During the WW2, USSR had Americian industrial equipment - ALL Soviet T-34-85 tanks were produced on modern Americian machine tools, that were copied and put on massive production by USSR. All Soviet machines from 1928 were build on Weimar Republic equipment, from 1940 - on German, from - 1943 on Americian equipment. Even Soviet fighter mig-15, best of it's time, was made of English equipment, that was bought by Soviet Union in 1945 with English sights and aviation technologies. Modern Russia have the same problems - all termal imagers, sights, special equipment and computer systems are producing in the West. Russia didn't put into massive production T-114 Armata tank due to the Americian embargo of computer and sights systems. Modern Russia also politically unstable, and there is big threat of Civil war. Modern Russia don't have any chance, if there would be the war, after mobilization and approach to the borders, NATO would take Moscow and Urals after 2 months...
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