Just to provide some perspective on the comprehensive military "tale of the tape" between the Sino-Russian Axis and the United Soviet Socialist States of Obamerikastan, watch the following video:
To summarize (using "official" numbers and estimates for our enemies, which means our numbers are doubtless inflated and theirs are low-balled):
TOTAL PERSONNEL: Russia/China 7,955,000, USA 2,540,000 (3.13 to 1)
TANKS: Russia/China 24,564, USA 8,854 (2.77 to 1)
AFVs: USA 41,065, Russia/China 36,096 (0.88 to 1)
ARTILLERY (GUNS): Russia/China 18,571, USA 3,235 (5.74 to 1)
ARTILLERY (MLRs): Russia/China 5,570, USA 1,331 (4.18 to 1)
FIGHTERS/BOMBERS: USA 5,006, Russia/China 4,458 (0.89 to 1)
HELICOPTERS: USA 7,119, Russia/China 2,696 (0.38 to 1)
AIR TRANSPORTS: USA 5,367, Russia/China 1,962 (0.37 to 1)
AIRCRAFT CARRIERS: USA 20, Russia/China 2 (0.10 to 1)
TOTAL WARSHIPS: Russia/China 423, USA 190 (2.23 to 1)
Bottom line is, we are heavily outnumbered on the ground (We probably still hold a qualitative edge in training and equipment, but that's been steadily eroding over the past nearly seven years, just as have our numbers), heavily outnumbered at sea (with the notable exception of aircraft carriers, which is more an air power factor than at sea - and which the Russians and ChiComms especially are developing surface- and submarine-launched missiles to counter; and, of course, we now lack the sea transport capability to deploy our meager ground forces anywhere), and while we still have (nominal) numerical superiority in the air, only a low-to-mid single-digits percentage of our combat aircraft are fifth-generation (i.e. stealth - F-117 Nighthawk, B-2 Spirit, F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning), and the vast majority of them are anywhere from thirty (e.g. F/A-18 Hornet) to forty (e.g. B-1b Lancer, F-14 Tomcat, F-15 Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon) to even sixty (i.e. B-52 Stratofortress) years old. Which is to say, decrepit, obsolete, and doomed (i.e. 50% or greater losses) against the enemy's fifth-generation air defenses.
We have the "hollow military" they used to talk about during the Carter years with an extra term (and perhaps more) for the latter's contemporary counterpart, and our enemies, which used to be enemies to each other, are now united against us.
And now they are coming up with a way to eliminate the last remaining vestige of our command of the air:
China and Russia appear to be building unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that could dwarf America's advantages in stealth aircraft.
Photographs surfaced earlier this year of a new High Altitude, Long Endurance (HALE) vehicle in China, the National Interest reports. Known as Divine Eagle, observers say the aircraft could detect and eliminate stealth enemy aircraft far from the Chinese mainland.
The report quotes Popular Science in saying that Divine Eagle could be used against the B-2 bomber and large Navy warships.
Regarding Russia, the report notes that a similar UAV was displayed this week at the MAKS air show in Moscow.
The aircraft employs deeply-integrated electronic warfare systems that would keep it hidden from radars, according to data the report cites by flightglobal.com.
The Flight Global report quotes an official of the Russian electronic systems producer KRET as saying that the new UAV would detect such American aircraft as the F-35 and F-22, as well as the B-2. [emphases added]
Interesting. We were supposed to have air superiority with the Raptor and Lightning until the end of the next decade. I can only guess how much of this technological "leap forward" on the part of Moscow and Beijing came from their cyberplundering of the national security secrets Barack Obama didn't give them and the harvesting of all the ones he did.
However, the damage is now done. America has not only been brought down to the level of the rest of the world militarily and economically - meaning a Reagan-style military rebuilding cannot be repeated - but, in fact, far below the level of the rest of the world.
We are ripe for the taking, my fellow future prisoners. Our enemies know it. And their endgame will not be long in coming.
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