U.S. war technology easily takes out Russian systems

World Tribune ^ | 26 March 2003 | World Tribune

[Enemy Of The State]

apparently their GPS jaming devices are as effective as their nuclear submarines.

[AlextheWise1]

ITs not the jammers that are the problem, its probably the Antiship missiles found in UM QUsar that were manufactured last year

[monday]

"ITs not the jammers that are the problem, its probably the Antiship missiles found in UM QUsar that were manufactured last year"

Then why is everyone making such a big deal of the jammers? This is the first I have heard of missiles, except for the French ones. I did hear that GW was really angry that the Russians had sold the Iraqis night visors. Stuff anyone can buy on the internet.

[HighRoadToChina]

Soviet crap BUMP!

[Warren]

Very interesting. Was reading an article about how Russian aircraft were much superior to ours.
Guess the guy was reading the brochure put out by
the Russian gov't.

[Grampa Dave]

We have posters here who love the new Russia. The stuff that they post re the great Russian Planes is nauseating.

The Russians had poor quality control as the USSR, and now that the Russian Mob/KGB thugs are running Russia, their quality control is probably worse.

[TADSLOS]

Russia never met a piece of American equipment it didn't like and attempt to imitate, usually with less than stellar results.

[derlauerer]

"But when we fought him in Gulf War 1, we were fighting Warsaw Pact weapons and doctrine. Our rapid victory was a final humiliation of the crumbling Soviet Union."

It might have been if the Soviet Union hadn't ceased to exist two years before. Let me refresh your memory. The Soviet Union breathed it's last in 1989 during Reagans second term. Gulf War 1 was in 1991 during G Bushes term.

Let me refresh your memory: The Soviet Union officially ceased to exist on January 1st, 1992, some nine months after Desert Storm, and less than six months after the attempted removal of Gorbachev in a failed coup.

It was during the chaos following the coup attempt that Boris Yeltsin, then Mayor of Moscow, rose to prominence by defying the plotters and standing on a tank defending the Russian Parliament.

I think you have confused the fall of the Soviet Union with the fall of its empire, which did indeed occur in 1989 (although even that was a few months after Ronaldus Maximus had left office).

[marron]

No need to refresh my memory. The Soviet Union fell two years before. The Soviet equipment in Iraq's inventory did not cease to exist, nor did direct ties between Moscow's intel services and Saddam's, nor did direct ties between the Russian military and Saddam's.

We are probably fortunate that Gorbachev did not offer any direct support to Baghdad, but his officers remained there during the war. Gorbachev's withholding of help may be a part of the reason Bush Senior later was so quick to support him when he was taken prisoner in the coup-attempt.

I will reword the sentence in question, however: "Our rapid victory was a final humiliation of the [crumbled] Soviet Union."

[marron]

Let me refresh your memory: The Soviet Union officially ceased to exist on January 1st, 1992, some nine months after Desert Storm, and less than six months after the attempted removal of Gorbachev in a failed coup.

Thank you.

[Stavka2]

Yeah, especially Russian technology that is between 30 to 50 years old. T-55's are early 50's tanks, T-72s were a mtach for M-60s. Luckily for the US they don't have T-80s, T-90s and BMP-3s. Besides, these are arabs fighting. And your "third" world country has the 10th largest economy in the world, look it up on the CIA Fact Book 2002. Dooou!