re: Red Army Sustaining Massive Losses. Look WEAK

No reason to be surprised about this. I used to do a once over on Soviet-made armor and equipment brought back from Desert storm. Mostly I did translations from Russian to English on the consoles and gauges. After climbing through T70 and T-80 tanks, various armored personnel carriers, a few helicopters and other equipment, it became obvious that their material is junk.

At the time, I thought that it was simply that they didn't sell their "good stuff" to other countries. Turns out that they don't have any "good stuff." American armor and equipment is light-years ahead of what Russia can make and produce.

I now wonder if we have been fed lies by our government about how powerful the Soviet Union was in order to provide an excuse for nearly unrestricted exorbitant military spending. Of course, it is nice to know that no other nation has anything near what we have in our military inventory.