VladimirTarasov

Yeah you're right, probably field testing. But T-90s would indeed help against Ukrainian AT assets and the battle around Luhansk airport was very intense.

Yep, Putin indeed is in it for the money. And he isn't he one who actually brought Russian standards high. He's a dictator who only cares for himself. Honestly with no disrespect to anyone, this sounds like CNN and Fox News. Russia would not be able to invade and hold the Baltics. But it would be able to invade and destroy the baltic military, and withdraw. Russia doesn't care about the baltics. They already hate Russia anyways. The only way I see Russia attacking a Baltic country is if the Russian population is abused by the governments of those countries. (Which I don't think is going to happen.) All this media coverage on a Russian invasion onto the baltics is just NATO's way on expaning east ward. Ukraine plans to join NATO by 2020... who would have known.

Ok 1. A rebellion is looked down upon by a great majority of Chechens as they have their own republic. Grozny is among the happiest cities in Russia, check it out. And BTW I have talked to Chechens in Grozny. I've been there 2 times. 2. Perhaps tactically bombed would end a disaster if NATO had AA asystems that can hit planes that launch KH-55 missiles 2,500 KM away? (TU-22s TU-95s TU-160 can drop these in a bunch of numbers) Georgian military bases would be flattened in a day if they are looking for full scale war. 3. If NATO supported the Ukrainians like Russia supports the insurgents, There would be an active Russian military presence (in other terms official battalions worth of units) deployed to counter set that. 4. Sure that is maybe why US has active tactical nuclear weapons in quite a few NATO airbases? If we starve fighting a war so be it. 5. China is Russia's friend, but I'm not saying China will fight NATO for Russia that is silly. They wont sell their selves to the US against Russia either. That is a sign of weakness. Russia is not as weak as you make it to be.

Sure buddy you gave me alot to write back on, I'm gonna write back to you later.

the campaign is amazing I really enjoy it, It's giving me a real war feel. But I think there was a language misunderstanding. I was wondering if the last file you shared was the fix for the briefings.

dragonwynn the last file you shared has the briefings?

Guys obviously that tank was brought into service from old Ukrainan stocks (sarcasm) to be fair the T-90s were brought in for a short period to help tip the battle in LPR's favor. So yep I'll give my American colleagues a point in this one.

The Caucuses will not lift off from the 2nd war, as the people of Chechnya are now getting perfectly along with us and we won the 2nd Chechen war. Sure a small insurgency why not, there's one currently(Terrorist cells instead of a rebellion mind you). Georgia cannot take any territories back without being tactically bombed on their military infrastructure. In 2008 we beat Georgians with a way less technologically capable force, and with less numbers. Georgia has upgraded its forces from back then, but Russia has too. (and our larger forces are right next door) As for Ukraine, NATO countries trained them during the war and Russian backed DPR and LPR had successes against them. What can NATO provide that can change the outcome? If Ukraine were to invade with NATO towards Russia you can expect the whole country to be mobilized (including me so I'd rather not a war to start ) I agree with you that the surface vessels of the Black Sea fleet(All Russian fleets) would have to stay in port (50 KMs out at most) NATO is just superior in terms of air power (numbers alone) mind you I'm not saying that Russia would be able to beat NATO on a full scale invasion on our territories but you can expect tactical nukes to fly on NATO bases, just as how NATO would send tactical nukes onto our bases. (Which is enough to shut both sides off from a war like this and as you have stated Steve, NATO would win based on embargos alone. Not counting militarily.) China has a very big gas deal with us, If they were to trade us in for America (highly doubted as Russia is now buying a bunch of stuff from China) they have a thing to worry about. Plus Russia isn't denying Chinese claims in their seas, with military tension. What will harm Russia the most is economical sanctions, it'd be very bad to say the least. So sure we are pretty scared to invade the Baltics.

NATO would indeed respond to a full out invasion of the Baltics, although any threats posed to Russian territories (Like Kaliningrad) will meet the threat of tactical nukes being used against military infrastructure of NATO. Which is indeed a bargaining chip against NATO superiority, as you mentioned it would make NATO think its plan through due to nuclear escalation. Everything aside, I really hope hope these tensions are swept aside as all these new military build ups do not show a great future ahead.

To be fair, Russia can invade the Baltics and hold it in a limited time scenario. But in a long term scenario NATO would with Air power be able to crack Russian air defenses in the Baltics. But the good news is Russia has no interests in the Baltics. Win win for everyone, but a lose to NATO taxpayers because Russia is now considered a threat and NATO will deploy a whole bunch of stuff to counter our threat.

Fair enough apologies, no news other than the 100 Armata's being bought. It was seen on the parade grounds May 9 pretty good pics on it you can check'm out.

This should be counted as trolling honestly. You're just trying your best to provoke me but luckily I've dealt with many people such as yourself on the net. If you are trying to prove Russia is incapable sure go believe it

I thought this was the armata topic keep going on with the butthurt.

Quite immature.

Lol! good one, expected from you

@dragonwynn I've played the first 4 missions (victorious on all missions :D) but there seems to be an issue, the briefings for each mission are not showing up only the campaign briefing was the only one that showed.

Possible spoilers: First mission I got a Russian army minor victory, I held 4 hills and wasted a brigade worth of guys. I inflicted over 200 casualties while suffering 48 losses and 76 wounded. I have one suggestion for this awesome campaign (probably the best campaign) the spetsnaz lads are only veterans they should be at a higher skill set ranging from crack to elite.

The Russian navy is mostly scrap iron at this point? That is a laughable statement, is the Russian navy as capable as the US navy? Of course not. But to call it scrap iron is a very biased opinion. The Russian navy is a defensive one, and it isn't because we want too its because we have too. And I am pretty sure our navy can play defense very well coordinating with land based systems, as well as air based systems while on defense. Also what suppliers are you talking about for the Russian Air Force? And honestly just not to start a political flame war I'll just keep the argument non-political and keep it militarily.

Look for evidence for my posts? Ok will do!

Our navy is what is the most effected, already weird ship producing mixed up with budget cuts will slow to modernize and build our navy up for a while(our navy is 44% the US navy because most ships are being overhauled.) Our ground forces suffer from budget cuts, Uralvagonzavod has been modernized a while back and its very modern and newish from what I've seen. Our tanks wont be lacking in quality more so it will lack in the wanted quantity because of sanctions and oil drops. Airforce has to lower spending as well, but modernizing of the air force is pretty decent for now. It is a shame that Russia is being sanctioned over Ukraine, where other countries deserve to be sanctioned more so. France is rolling back on the sanctions, I hope our other European partners put an end to the sanctions as well. Kinophile, The Armata program has been well funded already since 2011 set backs will be only against the numbers of the tanks bought and not quality. Russia has been modernizing on full scale since 2009. Given the outlook of our economy plans will be set back or the scale will be reduced. Given that our military doctrine is mostly defensive, I don't see an issue as long as our strategic and tactical assets give us a great bargaining position.

I don't get what you mean by stirring the pot but it turns out I was mistaken since during the time there was no info, I assumed such important tanks would be crewed by Russian crewmen. The crews as far as I know are Syrian soldiers trained to use the machines.

I during service was able to hit a armored vehicle sized target at 150 meters, the sight on the RPG-7 makes it more accurate than one would think. In game I got hits at 150-180 meters but sometimes they even miss at 70 meters.

Here we go again with the Russia abusing its neighbors. I'm not willing to continue on this.

Of course not... But you're making it seem as if we don't know this, and as if we aren't a capable force to fight. The farthest the Russian military would be able to fight NATO is the baltics after that obviously it wont be possible. It would be left to strategic assets to try and destroy NATO bases and all that stuff, but other than that Russia cannot launch a ground offensive into the bulk of NATO obviously we don't have the numbers to pull that off.

You know, The worse part about it was not using conscripts as even conscripts are trained and can fight. But the worse part is that maps or any knowledge of where they were simply did not exist. The high command assumed sending some forces into areas would work or something like that.