Originally Posted by
Echo40
I find it strange that people still insist that Russia is a legitimate threat to the US, packing state-of-the-art body armor, when if anything the War in Ukraine has shown them to have in incredibly weak, poorly outfitted, incompetent military.
Honestly, they can't even successfully take over a smaller, weaker, less capable nation, and I find it hard to believe that they're fielding some incredible new body armor capable of stopping M855A1 when they're facing an army that doesn't even have ammunition that good at defeating body armor.
So unless they're really holding back against Ukraine and are deliberately trying to trick NATO forces into underestimating them by feigning weakness, they're not a threat at all. If you want to say that China has some advanced body armor in the works, then that I can believe, but Russia? Based on what, I might ask?