Tupolev202 (July 12, 2009 at 4:22 am)

Oh well, the 2008 south ossetia war eh? You pussy americans did even dare to protect your georgian friends.A Reuters analyst described Russia's army in light of the conflict as "strong but flawed." According to him, the war showed that Russia's "armed forces have emerged from years of neglect as a formidable fighting force, but revealed important deficiencies".

robinowitz3 (July 12, 2009 at 3:53 am)

. Despite the pre-planning and the show pieces Russia put on display, observers commented on the numerous stranded tanks and generally unimpressive ragtag performance of the Russian military

robinowitz3 (July 12, 2009 at 3:51 am)

However, prior to the attack, the Russian army secretly transferred its top-of-the-line T-80 and T-90 battle tanks and BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles from its Moscow and Western military districts to the Caucasus, thereby hoping to hide the obsolete and dilapidated state of its equipment.

robinowitz3 (July 12, 2009 at 3:50 am)

Russias attack on Georgia in August is illustrative of the serious problems it faces in bringing its operational capability in line with its superpower pretensions. Russias 58th Army invaded tiny Georgia with 500 tanks and an equal number of combat vehicles

Tupolev202 (July 12, 2009 at 2:58 am)

Open your eyes american, Russia is going to be a superpower, sooner or later.

robinowitz3 (July 11, 2009 at 11:39 pm)

Russia is no superpower,emerging or otherwise.

kalleanka887 (July 11, 2009 at 10:47 pm)

I think t-90 is a great tank. Not the greatest but an worthy apponent.

RIEKSONE (July 11, 2009 at 8:45 pm)

t 90 is a upgraded t 72

kalleanka887 (July 11, 2009 at 5:44 pm)

T-90 can bee destoyed in the front by a ww two panzerfaust.The lower front thickens of t-90 is just210-280 and 60-120 mm RHA!!!

patnais102 (July 11, 2009 at 5:22 pm)

lol our comments about DU got deleted, funny.I love how people take it so personnnal, like if those tanks where their own.Armed force are irrevelant today their will never be others world conflicts like we had in the last centuries.Today's arm forces fight against guerilla, a direct confrontation against any decent military power (western country , china ,pakistan india or russia) would lead to anihilation.Military spending is a way to transfer money from the poor to the rich (war is a racket).

uzpisox (July 11, 2009 at 4:42 pm)

No shit it's hard to be the best, that's why T-90 isn't the best.

MarshallJukov (July 11, 2009 at 4:17 pm)

Pal - leave those freaks alone - it is pointlessDon`t feed the trolls