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Watching TV shows or movies that display Russia as a military superpower is almost surreal nowadays. (lemmy.world)
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Was just watching Jack Ryan Season 3 and seeing the display of force and their movements causes some interesting dissonance given what we know now.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I'm old enough to remember when movies like 'Firefox' and 'The Hunt For Red October' first came out.

The US was always miles ahead of the Soviets. It was so bad that during the Reagan Era the Right had to come up with a new metric that let the Reds look tougher than they were. "Throw weight" was the measure of how big a load an ICBM could carry. Because the Russians had inferior tech, they had to build bigger missiles. Kind of how a 1700's musket had a higher caliber than an M-16. It was actually a symbol of soviet inferiority, but you'll hear people talking about it to this day.