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To: Cowboy Bob

I think in terms of manpower and a number of assets Ukrainian military is among the most formidable is the world or at least in Europe for sure. As for a quality of their troops I’m not sure.


9 posted on 02/27/2014 2:22:57 AM PST by cunning_fish
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To: cunning_fish; Cowboy Bob

>>>I think in terms of manpower and a number of assets Ukrainian military is among the most formidable is the world or at least in Europe for sure. As for a quality of their troops I’m not sure.<<<

I fact I was wrong. i did a little research to find Ukrainian military was about on par with modern US military in numbers back to 1992 right after independence (780,000 personnel, 6,500 tanks, about 7,000 combat armored vehicles, 1,500 combat aircraft, more than 350 ships, 1,272 strategic nuclear warheads and 2,500 tactical nuclear missiles.)
Today it has deteriorated to 36th in the world.


12 posted on 02/27/2014 2:36:10 AM PST by cunning_fish
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They got THESE guys for sure... and they can ruin your day for sure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Marine_Corps


56 posted on 02/27/2014 11:53:12 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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