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Message: [QUOTE="Glad_its_all_over, post: 10650533, member: 815"] Prompted by a request upthread and based purely on some open source, including Russian language and personal opinion: [CENTER][B]Russia[/B][/CENTER] Nowhere near as big and scary and competent as they'd like us to think. Small(ish) number of extremely well-equipped formations, say around a Corps or so in total in European Russia (2-3 divisions, including some airborne and special forces). Very, very strong on artillery, air defence and ISTAR, decent panzers and pretty reasonable professional (contract troops). However, logistically very thin, very low stocks of modern munitions, national infrastructure, including roads, railways and the like very ragged and in desperate need of maintenance and an economy in the toilet - if oil's not north of $80 or more a barrel, they only really have gas and a huge amount of GDP is routinely quite simply stolen. Limited air and maritime assets, what's available is being sweated hard to give the appearance of far more than is actually at hand. Can put on a good short-term show and, given an existential conflict, could probably generate a Soviet Union-style 1970s/80s - equipped military from stock, anything after 1990, not so much. A whole generation has now largely missed conscription, so no immediately available reserves. What they've got at hand might make it halfway across Poland before getting slaughtered. Essentially bluffing the living shit out of the West, except in grey operations like info and cyber where they desperately need a bit of a spanking to teach them some manners. Notably the GRU needs reminding of how nations and intelligence services interact. [/QUOTE]

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