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> Even if the Russians got to fight in their perfect scenario of an artillery slugfest, the US Army could still defeat the fully-mobilized Soviet Union. US arti
by klooney 4y ago
> Even if the Russians got to fight in their perfect scenario of an artillery slugfest, the US Army could still defeat the fully-mobilized Soviet Union. US artillery and armor could cut down any combination of human waves and simple tank attacks the Soviets could manage.
Important asterisk- this war was never fought and this is all speculation.
- actionfromafar 4y agoAlso, the European NATO/Soviet theatre was supposed to be faught in a nuclear hellscape. The reason BMPs and T-72s are so flimsy, is not because they are "bad". They were designed to be used with ABC packages and crawl through corridors already nuked "clean" by nuclear artillery. Even NATO anti-tank helicoptors would have a hard time going in when there at any moment could be a nuclear fireball in your path. We will never find out if they are any good for what they were designed. Most of them are destroyed now.
- ltbarcly3 4y agoYou are just speculating that its speculation, reality is fundementally unknowable.
- red-iron-pine 4y agoFurthermore this would have changed or been different depending on what stage of the Cold War you were in. Draw downs, shifts to hard fighting in Vietnam, stripping US divisions to supply Israeli forces during the YK War, etc. would have seen very different scenarios play out if shooting started in Europe. By the time of Able Archer it's likely that NATO would have been able to (eventually) outfight USSR/WARPACT forces, but not without huge losses and devastation -- and maybe nuclear war.