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Posted: 3/16/2014 10:57:24 PM EDT
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The French, certainly. The Brits. The Germans, for what it's worth these days. The Swedes know a thing or two about making weapon systems, even if they don't have the biggest army. The Finns and Danes have some cool stuff. Poland is becoming pretty decent. |
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The Germans are pretty well armed. Their Leopard 2 tank is one of very few in the world that can go toe to toe with an Abrams. The French Foreign Legion has proved they can bring one hell of a fight. I think the Poles are going to start really working towards improving their military in fear of what Russia may be planning on doing. The Swiss know what they are doing to, hell pretty much everyone in that country are part of their military. They also make some damn fine weapons too. There is a reason nobody fucks with them.
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Apart from Russia View Quote Well armed is not the same as being capable, experienced, or resolved. |
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Daily reminder the Germans have 225 main battle tanks.
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Also, it's worth noting that many don't consider Russia to be European.
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It's actually about 400 Leopard IIs of different generations (mainly A6, followed by A5s, a few A6M and some A4s). Our M1 Abrams tanks use the same gun, the 120mm smoothbore Rheinmetall or M256. We train with ze Germans on a regular basis. They are well armed and well trained. http://i62.tinypic.com/wjb1xv.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Daily reminder the Germans have 225 main battle tanks. That's it. It's actually about 400 Leopard IIs of different generations (mainly A6, followed by A5s, a few A6M and some A4s). Our M1 Abrams tanks use the same gun, the 120mm smoothbore Rheinmetall or M256. We train with ze Germans on a regular basis. They are well armed and well trained. http://i62.tinypic.com/wjb1xv.jpg I thought they started putting longer barreled guns in the Leopard IIs because they don't get DU. |
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I thought they started putting longer barreled guns in the Leopard IIs because they don't get DU. View Quote They have been trying different configerations for quite some time. They've put a shorter barrel on the UrbOp (or PSO) version, and a longer gun on the A7+. So far no major changes have been made. |
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Russia would overrun Europe in 15 days. Everything Germany and France have, Russia has more of.
We need another Reagan. And ERWs. |
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Would the supply trucks full of krokodil be able to keep up with the advance units of Russian armor?
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The Germans are pretty well armed. Their Leopard 2 tank is one of very few in the world that can go toe to toe with an Abrams. The French Foreign Legion has proved they can bring one hell of a fight. I think the Poles are going to start really working towards improving their military in fear of what Russia may be planning on doing. The Swiss know what they are doing to, hell pretty much everyone in that country are part of their military. They also make some damn fine weapons too. There is a reason nobody fucks with them. View Quote Really? Totally depends on their opponent. When you are only using 1% of their domestic spending for military, I have to think Russia could take any of them individually. |
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Scandinavian women seem to have some of the biggest arms I've ever seen.
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What European Countries are the most well armed?
The United States, since that's what the vast majority of Europe uses for the bulk of their military. |
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Russia would overrun Europe in 15 days. Everything Germany and France have, Russia has more of. We need another Reagan. And ERWs. View Quote Russia's military is far less competent than people generally believe. They no longer have the scale of the Soviet days, but still have the corruption, shitty NCO corps, poor maintenance, bad equipment, etc. While they absolutely can field SOME well equipped and well trained units, the bulk of their military is crap. Plus, the French would nuke the shit out of them without hesitation, if they advanced too far. |
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Yeah, but what does the best equipment help if you're too scared to use it. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SekrVjD5lRA/TewO4S2PfWI/AAAAAAAAA1g/85mOGfSyuVE/s1600/cartoon.gif The FFL is something different, but only the officers are french. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Civilian? UK and France nobody else, really Yeah, but what does the best equipment help if you're too scared to use it. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SekrVjD5lRA/TewO4S2PfWI/AAAAAAAAA1g/85mOGfSyuVE/s1600/cartoon.gif The FFL is something different, but only the officers are french. |
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isnt this on wikipedia? WTAF View Quote That would mean saigaman couldn't start another thread though I would imagine France followed by the UK then a big gap to Poland and Germany, Italy. Followed up by Spain, and Portugal. After that we are talking exclusively territorial defense entities with some ability for peacekeeping operations if they can hitch a ride on our or UK/FR transport. If you consider Turkey as "Europe" they are pretty damn imposing to anyone except US/Russia/China but they have little to project power. Just fuck up their neighbors. |
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There is reason they never get invaded. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Because mountain merchants have no real resources to bennefit from. Especially not at the cost of invading them. They would get overrun if they had something worth taking. |
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Daily reminder the Germans have 225 main battle tanks. That's it. How many does Canada have? More than that. Not according to Wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_Canadian_Army_equipment |
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More than that. Don't they still have a bunch of tanks stationed in Germany? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Daily reminder the Germans have 225 main battle tanks. That's it. How many does Canada have? More than that. Don't they still have a bunch of tanks stationed in Germany? How decisive are tanks? They have a big portable gun, but they seem rather vulnerable to everything from molotovs to air strikes. |
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Daily reminder the Germans have 225 main battle tanks. That's it. How many does Canada have? More than that. Don't they still have a bunch of tanks stationed in Germany? Nope. CFE pulled the heavy shit out in the early 1990's. AFAIK they still have a detachment with the AWACS guys in Geilenkirchen at the NATO airbase. |
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Russia would overrun Europe in 15 days. Everything Germany and France have, Russia has more of. lol no -Joseph Stalin That would require a level of logistical capability which is far beyond anything the Russians have had in the past two decades. |
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How decisive are tanks? They have a big portable gun, but they seem rather vulnerable to everything from molotovs to air strikes. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Daily reminder the Germans have 225 main battle tanks. That's it. How many does Canada have? More than that. Don't they still have a bunch of tanks stationed in Germany? How decisive are tanks? They have a big portable gun, but they seem rather vulnerable to everything from molotovs to air strikes. Tanks don't operate on their own. |
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Because mountain merchants have no real resources to bennefit from. Especially not at the cost of invading them. They would get overrun if they had something worth taking. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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De Swiss. There is reason they never get invaded. Because mountain merchants have no real resources to bennefit from. Especially not at the cost of invading them. They would get overrun if they had something worth taking. Ding ding ding. That has always been the plan. |
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Just a guess of the five most capable.
1. France 2. UK 3. Poland 4. Sweden 5. Germany |
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Russians aren't going anywhere. It's US and NATO aggression that is pushing the war. Crimea and the Ukraine is none of our business.
If we wanted to stop the Russians, just stock warehouses filled with alcohol. Once the Russians find it, it's over. Three days of drinking and we can walk in and disarm them. Besides, if Russia really wanted to ph*ck with the West, they'd dump foreign currencies (especially U. S. Treasuries) and demand gold or rubles/yuan for their oil and gas. Economic warfare can achieve what military might cannot. |
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Daily reminder the Germans have 225 main battle tanks. That's it. How many does Canada have? More than that. Not according to Wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_Canadian_Army_equipment Gay Bush would had told Harper to stock the fuck up. |
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Russia would overrun Europe in 15 days. Everything Germany and France have, Russia has more of. lol no -Joseph Stalin The Russians don't have that much shit anymore...they have even less ways of supplying that shit. |
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Russians aren't going anywhere. It's US and NATO aggression that is pushing the war. Crimea and the Ukraine is none of our business. If we wanted to stop the Russians, just stock warehouses filled with alcohol. Once the Russians find it, it's over. Three days of drinking and we can walk in and disarm them. Besides, if Russia really wanted to ph*ck with the West, they'd dump foreign currencies (especially U. S. Treasuries) and demand gold or rubles/yuan for their oil and gas. Economic warfare can achieve what military might cannot. View Quote It is our business when we disarm their nuclear capability with the guarantee of protection. Russia's economy is about 1/8 of the US's and 1/16 the size of the USA's and the EU's combined. They stand to gain nothing by dumping our currencies. |
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Turkey,by numbers and if you count it as European.
Russia doesn't have the numbers they once did but also they've not had anything close to the operational experience NATO forces have had in the past 13 years. |
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France followed by Great Britain.
All the surrender monkey bullshit aside, the French are the only one of them that can actually project power globally and they've got a credible nuclear deterrent and the mindset to use it. |
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Daily reminder the Germans have 225 main battle tanks. That's it. How many does Canada have? More than that. Don't they still have a bunch of tanks stationed in Germany? How decisive are tanks? They have a big portable gun, but they seem rather vulnerable to everything from molotovs to air strikes. Tanks don't operate on their own. So is it the idea that each tank works w/ X units of infantry, some manner of artillery, and all the supporting units? |
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So is it the idea that each tank works w/ X units of infantry, some manner of artillery, and all the supporting units? View Quote Armour always operates in conjunction with organic infantry, fire support, air defence etc. Failure to do so results in videos like those from Syria. |
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