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I would advice you to study military history. During WWII Russian T-34 tanks was simple but way better than US Shermans and German Panzers. Their fighters (after 1943)was superior killing machines that was feared by German pilots. AK-47 is more reliable and way better than M-16( my personal combat experience).Never underestimate your opponent.

You're partially right!!! German tanks were superior to Sherman's but were just simply to complicated for battle situations, T-34 was a superior tank. Russians had nothing comparable to the P-51 with the Merlin engine. The Mig-15 was a good fighter but fell way short of the F-85!!! The Russians have the same problem now they have always had. Their engines are to big and guzzle to much gas, hence the huge air intakes. F-22 has super cruise which means they can engage at high speed and stay at high speed, unless the Ruskies have stolen that technology as well they can't. It is just as important to not OVER estimate your opponent!!!

I would advice you to study military history. During WWII Russian T-34 tanks was simple but way better than US Shermans and German Panzers. Their fighters (after 1943)was superior killing machines that was feared by German pilots. AK-47 is more reliable and way better than M-16( my personal combat experience).Never underestimate your opponent.

True. Although this is fiction, in one role playing game I've played in, Twilight: 2000, the person running the game had in his world history where an F-22 was shot down going against a Cuban MiG-17 or was it a MiG-15. I believe anything's possible. BTW, Twilight: 2000 was a role playing game, albeit "alternate history" where NATO and the Warsaw Pact (along with Red China) gets into an atomic World War III from 1995 to 20xx.

The key thing to is that if supply lines were disrupted or if the SHTF so much, planes like the F-22 and tanks like the M-1 would take a hit eventually since they are maintenance hogs whereas it would be much easier to maintain something like a MiG-15/17 or a T-34. Also in the case of the T-34, the Russians made so many of them, they can rush a superior opponent and come out on top. This is known as a "zerg rush" on the TV tropes website.

Getting back to the old Twilight: 2000 game, in many games, you had planes like the Sabre Jet, Super Sabre and the FJ-1 Fury (and many WWII planes) and so on return to frontline service as well as the F-4 being towards the top end.

"During WWII Russian T-34 tanks ~~was~~ were simple but way better than US Shermans and German Panzers."

Better? Nah, they just overwhelmed with large numbers of tanks.

"Their fighters (after 1943) ~~was~~ were superior killing machines that ~~was~~ were feared by German pilots."

Oh, then why did we have to give to them so many aircraft, for which we have never been paid?

"AK-47 is more reliable and way better than M-16( my personal combat experience).Never underestimate your opponent."

Your personal experience is only one opinion. I know people who swear that the M-16 is superior. Whose opinion is correct? I have heard experts say that those who cannot afford M-16s are forced to buy AK-47s because they are so much more cheap. When one buys cheap, one gets that for which he has paid.

I never underestimate the opponent. The main thrust of what I was trying to say was that they steal much of other people's technology. In addition, their philosophy has always been quantity over quality. Speed of production takes precedence over quality.