Russian Su-57 & T-14 Armata Tanks no Match vs. US F-35 & NATO Forces

Video Above: The War in Donbas

By Kris Osborn – President & Editor-In-Chief, Warrior Maven

The Pentagon is taking a bold and clear deliberate step to say the US and its NATO allies would like to “see Russia weakened” following its invasion of Ukraine for the specific purpose of safeguarding other European countries at possible risk of Russian attack.

“We do want to make it harder for Russia to threaten its neighbors and leave them less able to do that. Russia in terms of its land force has been attrited in a significant way they have lost a lot of equipment, precision weapons, lost a surface combatant. Will be harder to replace some of this capability moving forward because of the sanctions. We want to make sure they don’t have the ability to bully their neighbors,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in Germany following a meeting with leaders from more than 40 nations.

In terms of pure numbers, it might seem difficult to think of substantially weakening Russia’s military, given its size. However, Austin and others have said that indeed Russia has been continuing to lose large amounts of its combat force and equipment in the war, leaving them much less fortified and combat-ready than they were previously. 

Also, Russia’s armored vehicle inventory has also taken a large hit in terms of numbers as well, given the number of successful ambushes against Russian convoys and armored formations.

T-14 Armata Tanks, Su-57s and F-35s

The Russian military already seems to be suffering from a numbers deficit when it comes to advanced technologies. While Russia does reportedly have a wide sphere of high tech weaponry to include hypersonics, 5th-generation stealth aircraft and T-14 Armata tanks, the country does not have a sizeable force of any of them.