Since the beginning of the special military operation between Russia and Ukraine, the United States has been supporting Ukraine behind its backs, either sanctioning Russia's economy and other elements of national development, trying to form a certain obstacle to Russia's military operations, or providing weapons and equipment to Ukraine, trying to make the war more and more intense. Although the United States did not directly send troops, saying that it was to avoid provoking three wars with Russia, but the various actions of the United States to stimulate Russia did not stop, then if the United States and Russia had a war without considering nuclear weapons, what would be the chances of Russia winning?
In fact, the reason for this setting is mainly because of the special existence of "nuclear weapons", after all, once a nuclear war occurs, it is definitely not just a matter between the United States and Russia, then the entire world civilization may be destroyed. Therefore, those who say at every turn that once Russia's conventional equipment cannot be defeated, Russia will definitely bomb with nuclear weapons immediately.
Back to the point, the United States is still the most powerful country in the world at present, after all, the US military-industrial complex will take advantage of the opportunity to make money. Take the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, for example, because of the special military operation between Russia and Ukraine, the stock markets of several US arms dealers have all flipped, directly rising by more than 10%. It can be said that taking advantage of this special russian-Ukrainian military operation, US arms dealers have taken advantage of the opportunity to make a big profit.
Moreover, in this trend, the Biden administration has also directly raised the defense budget for fiscal year 2023, although the US statement is that because of the needs of the current international situation, the US should increase the defense budget to ensure the security of the United States.
But if there is not enough support, the US defense budget is estimated to be unable to rise, of course, even if it can not go up, it is higher than other countries, and relying on the defense budget, the United States is already the world's most powerful military power. Although the shipbuilding industry this year has not been sluggish, and various problems have emerged in an endless stream, compared with Russia, which has not been optimistic about the economic situation. The development of U.S. military power is still very impressive, while Russia still relies on the inheritance from the Soviet Union, and has not developed much on the whole.
This gap should be the view that most people agree with at present, after all, because it is true from the surface, but even so, the military strength of the United States has not yet reached the point where it can directly win the war against Russia. In terms of the size of the army and the number of equipment, we should start with the air force, after all, air supremacy is the key to a modern war, and in the recent special military operations, the Russian air force is not much, which makes many people start to sing the decline of the Russian army.
In terms of the number of fighters alone, the number of Russian fighters is about 4,000, and fighters, bombers, transport aircraft, early warning aircraft and other types of fighters are not bad, but compared with the total number of more than 13,000 fighters in the United States, the one-to-one gap is still obvious.
In terms of fighter performance, the U.S. fifth-generation F-22 has been in service for many years, while the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter has only been in service for a few years, if from the perspective of stealth performance, all aspects of the design for stealth effect service, F22's stealth capability has obvious advantages. However, in terms of mobility, it is the Su-57 that is superior, so if there is no basic information on actual combat between the two, it is still difficult to decide the winner or loser based on this. In particular, actual combat is not a one-on-one duel, and in terms of strategic air strikes, Russia and the US military are such a limit pull, so it is difficult to decide a result.
However, if you look at the scale alone, the advantages of the US military are still very obvious.
From the perspective of the navy, in terms of the number of "water overlord" aircraft carriers, Russia currently has only one "Kuznetsov" aircraft carrier, which has been in the maintenance stage before, and then spent billions of dollars to let the aircraft carrier enter a new journey, and the plan is to restart sailing this summer.
Compared with the scarcity of Russian aircraft carriers, the United States has eleven nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, although the US military's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers have exposed many problems because of disrepair and other reasons, but there are always better than nothing, plus various types of destroyers, cruisers, etc., there are hundreds of large and small ships, while the total number of Russian naval ships is only more than a hundred.
But Russia has the most powerful nuclear-powered cruisers in the world, as well as a variety of nuclear submarines, enough to pose a threat to the vast majority of U.S. warships.
Moreover, war has never been a one-on-one direct confrontation between a branch of the armed forces or a fighter plane, and war is about tactics, and how to link the sea, land, and air forces with the army and the field to play the greatest role is the most important thing.
According to the actual situation, once there is a war between the United States and Russia, the most likely battlefield is Europe, which is far away from the United States and close to Russia, so the United States must carry out long-distance projection. In such a comparison, Russia can first directly use the powerful missile system to bombard the important equipment of the US military, and then send out bombers to name them one by one, after all, the distance is long, and the US military's land-based missile support is far inferior to that of the Russian army.
In this way, the superiority of the US military is not much, and there is another point, although Ukraine's military strength can not be compared with the United States, but this special military strength that is happening is also actual combat experience for Russia, and it is developing modern military combat, which may make Russia more aware of how to use modern equipment and modern combat methods to fight.
That is to say, russia still has a great chance of winning this nuclear-weapon WAR between the United States and Russia, and Russia dares to fight, but the United States is not necessarily.