USA and NATO conduct highly provocative military exercises in the Baltic Sea or near the Russian border in Poland or Baltic states on a regular basis. I don’t know if they used B-2s, but they use plenty of other advanced gear like the P-8.

The highly capable Tu-160 was supposed to be the replacement for the Tu-95 family. According to many sources, in a number of comparisons and parameters, the Tu-160 is probably the best long-range bomber in the world. The issue with the Tu-160 was that it was really expensive and that its production barely started…

There is valid concern over Russia politically because they did meddle in the US election

The same can be said of the B-52. Because, after Vietnam and relatively short bombing campaigns in Iraq, they haven’t been doing much.

ISIS blew up a full Russian passenger airliner over Egypt less than two years. ISIS beheaded a Russian spy on its territory about couple of weeks ago. Considering the US and Russia are partners in fighting ISIS and the fact that ISIS terrorists can just as easily target passenger airliners of either country, I think…

Considering ISIS blew a full Russian airliner out of skies over Egypt, and that US and Russia are partners in fighting ISIS, I think passing that information to Russian officials was more than justified. That’s not what “burned” the spy. It’s whoever who exposed the whole conversation to the media.

There was no reason for him to tell them that

Yes, basically the Arctic ocean is Russia’s best hope for having an unimpeded access to the world ocean, so Northern Fleet is the most important fleet in Russia. Two others, Black Sea and Baltic Sea fleets are basically bottled up in a land locked sea with NATO countries controlling the exit into the ocean.

Why should the USA spend a whole lot of money on militarizing the arctic? The most important ocean for the world economy and shipping is the pacific ocean, and places like the South China sea, and that’s where the US military resources are going. If Russians are so obsessed about arctic, let them waste resources on…

I can see why Americans can be so secretive about their technology transfers. A whole lot of American weapons are of course class-leading, and so the government is very jealous about that. It is suspected that even American allies, like Israel, may have leaked American secretes (such as the technology related to the…

You can’t trust western analysts to make any perdition about Russian demographics because they tend to be extremely politicized and sensationalist. I recall some idiot report from 1990s that was predicting that today Russia was going to have only 90 million people. That hasn’t happened did it?

So you don’t get the news about the US military from random blogs,

I draw my knowledge from a ton of blogs, English and Russian language, American and non American based, including jalopnik. I must say jalopnik is now truly garbage military blog. For the most part, we now see about three posts a week on foxtrotalpha, most of which can be reduced to highly biased “America is great,…

Sounds like you haven’t been looking up the Russian demography trends since about 1997. In fact, the Russian population has been stable at around 140-150 million people for more than a decade, add or subtract. Moreover, the Russian demographic trend are pretty much identical to much of East and Central European…

Where did I ever report to you about where I get my news about US military? Please don’t deflect the subject of this discussion.

Actually, you’d be surprised how much a dollar can buy in Russia. It’s a much poorer country, and people are used to much lower wages and standards of living. I have been listening to a radio interview of a Russian manager of some military equipment corporation and when asked what a “highly qualified worker can earn”…

They did a lot. Obviously you have no idea and no clue. You have not been following any Russian language military blogs like bmpd or news sources like lenta.ru or topwar.ru. So what can I tell about you? Just another opinionated moron drawing his “knowledge” from jalopnik, and posting on jalopnik.

Trump should just fly in the back of the cargo cabin of AF C-130, Matis-style.

It says that the naval forces is far more important to China than to Russians. Recently the Chinese have started downsizing their army and putting more resources into the navy, envisioning potential conflicts coming from the sea. Russia on the other hand, does not have any maritime disputes with the neighbors (except…

They still have the biggest and the most modern nuclear arsenal and an armed force third in size after China and USA. They operate on low budget, and that’s precisely why they can do without the likes of VA Hospitals or expensive precision weapons when it comes to fighting medieval jihadist savages.