Who would win a conventional war between Russia and America?

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Answer 1

People that have answered this are living in the world of 10 years ago.

Russia has seen its wealth increase at an amazing rate, thanks to energy price increases. Russia supplies the gas to most of Europe & earns a fortune.

Under Putin, the Russian military has returned to almost superpower strength. They have some of the most advanced missile systems, defence hardware and joint strike fighter jets in the world. They also have a huge army, trained to the highest level.

Russia didn't get rid of its nukes either, so has serious strike ability.

Russia also has a pact with nuclear armed Communist China and an attack on one nation is results in a united response.

Russia would defeat America with surprising ease.

Answer 2

I am not a Russian or an American, so you can consider my opinion as an impartial one, OK?. In a conventional war, it depends on which territory the war is being fought. If the war is on Russian soil, Russia will win. If the war is on American soil, America will win.

In World War 2, it took the combined forces of England and America to defeat the Germans on the Western Front. Had the Americans fought alone, it was unlikely that they have defeated the Germans. But of course, the Americans were fighting on German soil, and they were also fighting the Japanese in the Pacific. The Allied and German casualties on this front was about 800,000 (a million).
The Russians fought against the Germans at the Eastern Front. The Russians defeated the Germans. The Russian and German casualties in this front was about 3,500,000 (three and a half million). From the casualty figures, the Eastern front is more heavily fought. There were more Germans fighting in the East than the Western Front. But again, the Eastern Front was mostly fought on Russian and German soils.

I Hope you get the comparison. But times had changed. The conventional weapons now are more modern that in WW2. And Russia today is smaller than the USSR in WW2.

Answer 3

As am former USAF member and a former US Army Infantrymen this will sound like I m partial to the USA. Fair enough, however, after serving in combat in both branches I can honestly say I believe Russia s only hope would be NUKLIER. Their equipment abilities are in my opinion are exaggerated grossly. The Russians are tough and they are very good soldiers, but they are mostly drafted and simply don t believe in most wars they have to fight in. We have a volunteer military with for the most part take real pride in simply being the best. AND WE ARE. Our politics and Politian, well that s another story in itself. That s why we should only allow honorable discharged vets to serve as President. If your going to send a man or woman to their deaths for this country. YOU SHOULD HAVE HAD TO WALK IN THEIR SHOES. That way we don t get some flake in the White house. While nobody can predict how any one person will react when confronted by Putin. At least the person would have some military training, and would be smart enough to listen to his generals instead of his Harvard professor. Our government considers the us the enemy. Our government considers anyone that is heterosexual, white male, or Christian, or the police the enemy. If we had a real President the 101st Airborne division would be on the southern border. Col. Allen West for President.

Answer 4

I don't know. It is a very popular issue though. To prove it there are jokes made about this issue. For example. Russia and America wanted to decide who was the superpower. They decided to have a dog fight. They had five years to prepare. The Russians started breeding large dogs. Taking the meanest puppies and breeding them together to form even meaner dogs. When the day came for the dog fight the Russians moved the cage into the stadium. The dog was barking and growling and bending the bars of the cage. The Americans came in with what looked like a long wiener dog. They released the dogs, The Russian dog came running up to the America's dog growling and snapping it's jaws. The American dog opened it's mouth and ate the Russian dog in one bight. It turned out that the Americans had been doing plastic surgery on a crocodile in the five years.

Answer 5

In a conventional war Russia does not have the sea lift or air lift capability to invade the US. We probably do have such a capability, but I agree with Harry today's Americans and our commie media would start crying uncle after the first body bags were shown on TV.

To World's biggest St Helen's fan (the volcano?). You have to be kidding a war between Britain and France. France couldn't whip the Rhode Island National Guard.

Answer 6

U.S.A. All the way!

Reason 1 Technological Superiority

Stealth, Munitions and Ordinance Like JDAMS and the like, Armor, Vehicles, Anti-Missile Technology like the patriot and the new anti-rpg unit, Laser tech. etc. and so on.

Reason 2 Command and Control Superiority.

We took out the afghans in much less time and casualties than the ruskies in the 80's. We took out the worlds 4th largest Army in 2 weeks in Iraq, How long do you think it would have taken the Russians?

Reason 3 Air superiority would signal the winning hand...

I think that our superior Air Force would defeat even the best of Russian Modern Fighters including the SU-37. It comes down to the fact that we have more advanced fighters with more seasoned and experienced pilots that are better equipped and trained.

With this being said not to be overconfident it would certainly depend on many factors like timing, location (Theatre of Operations) What type of Presidents and Generals are in office etc.

Answer 7

No allies involved? USA, but not by much, It's a money thing...they cannot hope to compare with our vast resources at this time. But don't get me wrong, those Russkies are tough, really really tough, and intelligent. But in the end our body armor and more accurate weapons would make the difference.
Also our Navy just dominates the world in technology and training. We could starve them in a few months. The air war would be something else...That may end up being a dead heat...though I'd still like to think our generals are smart enough to make short work of the biggest threats.

Answer 8

Russia is pretty much in a financial mess.
They'd be hard pressed to raise enough money to bomb any Americans.

On the other hand America is wealthy so they'd have no problem raising enough cash to bomb both Russians and Americans (and they usually do)

The Vietnamese were a poor people with not enough firepower to win a war, but the Americans cocked up, bombed themselves and still managed to lose a war against Vietnam.

So I declare it a draw.

Answer 9

Well i am sure that war would go nuclear so there wouldn't be a real winner. But if fought by conventional forces then America would win

Answer 10

I would say america. Russian submarines would be a concern, no doubt, but the americans also got them. Russia no longer has reliable bombers, like the americans B52,B1 andB2s, in fact, their air force hasn't got any stealth aircraft, russian AEW aircraft is also inferior to american E3s and E8s, american conventional fighters and fighter-bombers are better than their russian counterparts (and their pilots much better trained and combat-experienced). US navy, mainly the carriers, don't have a russian match at all. Land army,...america is better equipped and trained as well,..specially regarding special forces, helicopters,..etc. American logistics are far superior as well.

However,...if this was meant to be a land war,...where would they fight?

Answer 11

Depends who invaded who. America is getting its *** kicked big time in Iraq. Lost the Viet Nam war. What makes anyone think it could take Russia. If she invaded Russia she'd get her *** kicked.

Plus Russian Winter makes those guys really hard fu**ers, deal with alot of adversity. Americans are pansies, they have it much too easy.

On the other hand Russia equally would not be able to successfully invade USA cos of disorganisation, economic, technological and military inferiority.

So both nations wisely leave each other to their own.