Do you know how long it takes to get 35,000 tanks out of mothballs AND get new crews for them? NATO forces would be in Moscow before they’re ready!
“There is a special quality in quantity ... which handfuls of modern tanks could not overcome.”
BS, Western tanks were designed specifically to overcome numbers. Again, the Russian mothball tank fleet really doesn’t come into the equation.
“Russia will quickly achieve air superiority over Poland, and bring in serious tank busting SU 25s to treat the 900 or what remains.”
Really, Russian pilots didn’t do very well in Georgia. Its hard to bomb tanks without a GPS system (which we have control of).
“Then there are the Russian T90 tanks - M1A1 variant killers. BTW, all the Russian best mil stuff and troops are (or was) on the Chinese border.”
Really? exactly how many Abrams Tanks have T-90s killed? Their best guys are on the Chinese border? They might as well be on the dark side of the Moon, because they cant respond in time to a war in the West!
Underestimating a foe is bad, but overestimating them is worse. Lets keep it real.
Not trying to under or overestimate - just some items for consideration.
The Georgia op was carried out by mostly Russian mercenaries - battle testing new tech, if you will.
M1A1s haven’t killed a T-90 yet either - which is the point - no one knows exactly how well one or the other would do in real combat.
Don’t need GPS to point and shoot at a hot target. Russian SA and TanktoTank anti-tank missiles are optical or thermal, I believe.
Their GLOSNASS satellites, while not as optimal as the US mil GPS ones, are functional for the situation proposed. The question you may want to ask is: will Obizmo allow the Russians to build GLOSNASS monitoring stations in the US?