The disparity between Western and Eastern military equipment continues to shock me to this day.
How can there possibly be a real WW3 when it would be this much of a one-sided curbstomp?
>Western equipment allowed impoverished shithole Ukraine to stand toe to toe with Russia, the second largest army on Earth
>Nobody in the Middle East can hope to stand up to western-armed Israel
All that's left is China, but I doubt they would fare any better.

>>507228097 (OP)
Every time the west starts slipping they do an aggressive reassessment and overhaul until they are dominating like 10:1 again, like the Top Gun program which was created because American pilots in Vietnam were ONLY killing like twice or thrice as many enemy planes as they were losing themselves, which isn't good enough by western standards. Westerners are shit at certain things but when it comes to killing efficiency we simply don't fuck around, it is expected for a western fighter to be able to kill like ten combatants minimum on average.

>>507228563
So my question is, how can the East hope to compete with this?
We are running circles around them militarily.

>>507229677
>how can the East hope to compete with this?

more manpower authoritarian shitholes have some advantages in wars, no anti gov or anti war protests. they can also hide casualities and sacrafice way more people then western nations. That's what happened back in nam, gooks had 100x more casualities than you burgers, but you still pulled out

>>507230602
I'm talking about a real war though not some police action BS
Notice we never sent troops into North Vietnam

>>507230736
Moral and political support from your people is cruicial in war

this is the last propaganda cope that americans will cling to
>at least we have the best army and we can bomb everybody

>>507231025
Can't they? Who's gonna stop them?

>>507231025
whos coping now, dickless?

>>507228097 (OP)
Literally like a month ago a J-10 shot down a Rafale in air to air combat. Does frog military equipment no longer count as western?

>>507231417
What is the overall combat record of each plane?

>>507231417
>flown by a jeet
doesn't count

>>507231668
Cope. The J-10 was flown by a paki, so the playing field from an operator’s standpoint should be level.
A chiense jet with a chinese missile managed to shoot down a French jet miles within its own airspace.

>>507231531
J-10 - zero combat losses
Rafale - 1 combat loss (to the J-10)

>>507228097 (OP)
Amerilard delusion. Westoids just got dabbed on a week ago by Chink shit jets from the year 2000. At this point the question is if it would take 2 or 5 minutes for China to obliterate the entire US military.

>>507228097 (OP)
>The disparity between Western and Eastern military equipment continues to shock me to this day.
>some planes
>some fake numbers

In REALITY.
US-UK terrorist alliance needs aircraft carriers and planes.
Because they do their military terrorist activities from ships.
So they need the latest planes.

East doesn't need the latest planes.
For instance, if you consider a NATO-West war against Russia in Ukraine, it isn't solved by the planes.

It is currently won by Russia against the west by actual 21st century technologies - ballistic missiles and drones.

>Russia wins this war ON THE GROUND
>not in the air

>>507231668
I'm sure the Mexicans in USAF are way more talented pilots.

>Ukraine losing is actually a win

learn from history, the late Roman empire had superior military technology and standards compared to the Rome that conquered most of the known world

>>507232002
I know Ukraine has no chance of winning, but being an impoverished third world shithole lasting this long against the might of the Russian army is basically a miracle enabled by western equipment

>>507231531
J-10 (1-0)
Rafale - (0-1) unless you count bombing goat fuckers then probably like 1000-1.

>>507232002
Also it's funny how Russian military gear is way superior to westoid one despite costing 1/10th. Maybe the Amerilards shouldn't have designed their tanks with the same principles as mobility scooters that will never have to fight in difficult terrain.

>>507228097 (OP)
>All that's left is China, but I doubt they would fare any better.
There are reasons to suspect China might have better engineers than Russia.

(You)

>>507232147
Is this true? I was under the impression the Roman troops mostly dowgraded from the more expensive lorica segmentata to the cheaper (and possibly more effective) mail. Hell didn't the Byzzies use scalemail?

>>507228097 (OP)
> The disparity between Western and Eastern military equipment continues to shock me to this day.

What kind of cope thread is this? The chink shit the Pakistanis use BTFO the western supplied and much larger Indian Air Force just a couple of weeks ago. Ukraine is losing wildly.

>>507232196
Ukraine, while being part of Russian Soviet Union and a Soviet Republic, was top 15 economy in the world.
It became a 3rd world shithole once the west and capitalists robbed it many times.

>Boeing had 1000 russian engineers who were located in Kiev,
>now Boeing has jews , DEI and pajeets
>and Boeing planes are falling off the skies randomly

>>507228097 (OP)
Should I remind you that houtis aka a bunch of goat herders were able to make the US fleet flee with just some misiles from Rusia?

>>507232117
Having your capital city get bombed to dust is actually a 5d chess grand master move. Don’t you know?

>>507232430
here comes the cope
how come your glorious air defenses utterly failed in Iran last night

>>507232430
how does a brand new su-35 get shot down by a 50 year old F-16???? xDDDDDDDD

>>507232025
they literally are lmao.

>>507230736
>Vietnam wasn’t a real war

Ah, this is now the globohomo losing cope line. I suppose Afghanistan and Iraq weren’t real wars either?

>>507233187
Afghanistan no.
Iraq was a real war for the first week and look how the Iraqi army performed

>>507233351
>real war
No such thing war is war. We are good at conventional wars but then get bogged down and fail at the parts that matter.

>>507233351
Iraq wasn’t a real war either. The last real peer/near peer war the US fought was Korea, and it ended in a grinding ukraine tier stalemate against China.

>>507230602
>>507230936
It's important to keep in mind that a major reason we pulled out of NAM was we realized it was an entirely pointless war. This was proven to be true a couple years later when Vietnam and China immediately started fighting. We should have been arming Vietnam from the start.

>>507233621
This is true, MacArthur knew what it would have taken to win but we didn't have it in us, shameful

>>507233596
what part about conquering vietnam mattered in any way? LBJ was a good goy doing the bidding of his handlers. probably kikes. its just strange that he would invade vietnam for tonkin false flag but wouldn't invade israel for a much more grevious maritime attack...

>>507232437
IIRC even during the principate the segmentata wasn't the uniform standard, albeit it was mass produced like in no other era
but overall, my point is, in the late empire you didn't have a military that on paper was weaker than the preceding eras, the cavalry was definitely superior, the organization too didn't fall behind, even as late as when Goths were marauding inside the Roman territories they could still get their asses whooped by numerically inferior but very organized Roman legions
so even if Sassanids, the comparable competing foreign empire, could never hope to march onto Rome or conquer it otherwise, they still didn't need to nor to out-tech Romans, they could just wait it out

>>507231025
That’s a really good cope though.

>>507232430
The F117 shoot down is cope as it was visually tracked from takeoff to the point where it was shot down, and was the 10th F117 to fly the exact same route. They literally had the system pointing at the spot prior to it arriving. If anything it proves the value of human intelligence.

>>507232444
>The chink shit the Pakistanis use BTFO the western supplied and much larger Indian Air Force just a couple of weeks ago
Fr*nch planes don’t count as western war tech.

>>507228097 (OP)
perhaps when america was white

>>507232437
Chain mail was actually higher tech and superior in combat to the lorica segmentata. The misconception comes from late medieval plate armor, which was better than chain, but the Roman armor was not the same thing, notice the flat angles, and it was not made out of steel.

>>507234499
If we see all air warfare, not only planes, American hardware performed considerably worse than Soviet hardware.

Americans really like to pretend the parts they didn't won are not real.

>>507236162
What other American air systems performed poorly? The stinger system made the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan a disaster.

>>507236973
American AD is terrible (even if we believe made up propaganda stories like stingers in Afghanistan) and the use of air power for strategic goal is even worse.

It tends to perform well against enemies who cannot fight back, but the moment it's faced with token amounts of AD, we get what we saw in Yemen, losing aircraft and failed to accomplish anything.

>>507237254
Most of those are drones or utility helicopters. The F16 is from the 1970s. Notice how Israel, using actual 2010s equipment had no issue bombing Iran?

>>507234729
I thought chain mail predates lorica. (even though there is a strong argument that chain mail is superior even if one ignore it being way cheaper)
My impression is that the lorica was basically a flex on poor people and not very practical.

>>507237509
I'd rather not talk about the fight between Israel and Iran right now, Israel lies so much it makes even American look honest in comparison, and it takes some time for reliable data to appear.

Instead, let's focus on Yemen, what did the airpower of US managed to accomplish? Did the use of US planes managed to archive any strategic goal? If anything, the tiny amounts of AD Houthis had prevented the US from archiving anything.

>>507236973
>Stinger made the Soviet blah blah blah
Amerilard propaganda. The stinger was roughly as good as machine guns at taking down helicopters.

>>507237861
Not really DShKs caused far more harm to Soviet aircraft than stingers did.

>>507237860
They did agree to stop attacking shipping and then stopped attacking shipping so is that not a strategic win?

>>507237704
Yeah but it's harder to make with unskilled slave labor. That's why the segmentata came into play. Much easy to make with slave labor. Think Ork armor in LOTR.

>>507236162
The problem is that the sample size is ridiculously small, iirc there's only like three engagements between same gen Soviet and Western aircraft which resulted in losses.

>>507228097 (OP)
all those planes and bombs yet you can't get rid of non-whites raping your entire civilization to death?

>>507238223
They didn't stop attacking ships because of the air campaign, but because the US cut all support for the other side in the Yemeni civil war.

That the US had to basically give them the other half of Yemen when suing for peace speaks a lot about the US air power.

>>507238297
And Soviet doctrine focus far more in AD, the idea of Soviet planes vs US planes, nothing on the ground only serves to push propaganda.

>>507238367
You really think those planes are supposed to protect whites anon?

>>507238273
I thought chain mail is easier to make with slaves since you can just have the slaves do the simple link making and then have one artisan assemble the thing.

>>507238667
that's the justification used to have them right? to protect the west? lol

>>507228563
>American pilots in Vietnam were ONLY killing like twice or thrice as many enemy planes
Lol
You believe this?
hilarious

>>507238906
why shouldn't he, do you have anything that contradicts the available data?

>>507239255
>In total, the United States military lost in Vietnam almost 10,000 aircraft (3,744 planes,[4] 5,607 helicopters[3] and about 1,000 UAVs.
>North Vietnam lost 150 to 170 aircraft and helicopters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_losses_of_the_Vietnam_War

Even if we assume every single NV lost is a plane, the US still lost 22 planes (3,744 / 22) for each plane NV lost.

>>507239557
>(3,744 / 22)
* 3,744 / 170

>>507238223
>So my question is, how can the East hope to compete with this?
But they don't have to? They just have to watch western nations implode while theh laugh.
>inb4 it isn't happening shill
How's boeing (not) going mike?
>inb4 muh pilots
The cope, off the thread. You are welcome.

>>507238746
No. It's harder. The Segmentata is just bands of iron while the chainmail is an intricate system. It's like the Macedonian phalanx problem. It's better if you have the cavalry and units, but fielding the army is hard. The Roman units and gear wasn't better. A Gallic warrior was 1v1 better equipped if properly kitted, but the issue was the kit was too expensive and hard to make so most were just shirtless.