I don’t know about planes and tanks but as for nukes and nuke delivery systems we have been thru 20 plus years of START so there is parity thru reduction
That’s basically my point. We’re at parity on nukes, planes, and soldiers. They are still way ahead on tanks.
The dollar numbers don’t mean a thing for a number of reasons - if they did, there wouldn’t have been a Cold War and China wouldn’t have more soldiers. Just a comparison of personnel and procurement costs (for equivalent hardware) proves that out - we pay much, much, more for equivalent hardware - because we pay our people much better.