The collapse of the Soviet Union is an inevitable result, of course Liu Lang can't do anything about it, unless he is reborn as a god, but he doesn't want to miss this gluttonous feast, of course oil deposits and those things can't be his turn, but those old industrial foundations in the Soviet Union are very valuable.

In his previous life, Liu Lang had read a lot of books about the strength of the Soviet Union, and he had some understanding of the strength of this country that could make the United States extremely jealous, and the Soviet Union's commerce, that is, the tertiary industry, was far inferior to that of the United States, but his industrial science and technology, to be honest, may not be much weaker than the United States.

The degree of industrialization is first reflected in the country's weapons, and the comparison between the two is clear.

The Soviet Union's most glorious period was from 1975 to 1982, when the Soviet Union developed rapidly and dominated the world with the United States.

At the end of the 70s, the Soviet Union suppressed the United States in a strategic posture, and the Soviet Union at this time was a god-like existence.

Let's not talk about technology, let's talk about the size of the country, needless to say, the USSR is the largest country in the whole world, how big is it?

At that time, the Soviet Union merged Belarus, the Russian Federation, Ukraine and other countries, with a total area of more than 22 million square kilometers, occupying one-sixth of the world's land area, 58 times the land area of Japan, and more than twice the land area of the United States.

In 1991, the population was as high as 280 million, while the population of the United States was 250 million.

Then look at the industrial level.

In 1975, the Soviet Union's total industrial output was equivalent to 75 percent of that of the United States, but its fiscal revenue and military spending were basically the same as those of the United States. At that time, the Soviet Union sacrificed the economy and vigorously developed the military, the economic structure was deformed, and light industry and daily necessities were stunted.

In 1978, the total volume of steel in the Soviet Union reached 150 million tons, twice that of the United States, oil production was 600 million tons, 1.4 times that of the United States, natural gas production was 400 billion cubic meters, cement production was 125 million tons, 1.6 times that of the United States, textile production was 7.1 billion square meters, 1.8 times that of the United States, 110,000 harvesters, 3.6 times that of the United States, 550,000 tractors, twice that of the United States, 90 million tons of dairy products, 1.6 times that of the United States, and 9.2 million tons of fishing, 2.6 times that of the United States.

The Soviet Union also ranked first in the world in terms of armament production capacity. It can produce 3,000 main battle tanks, 5,000 armored vehicles, 300 intercontinental ballistic missiles, 10 submarines, and 70 surface ships every year, a capability that no other country, including the United States, can match.

At that time, the Soviet Union had more than 4 million standing troops, including 2 million army, 400,000 air force, 400,000 navy, 600,000 air defense forces, 300,000 rocket forces and other services, and more than 20 million reserve forces. At that time, the U.S. military, including civilians, was almost 4 million, but the U.S. Army only had 1 million.

At that time, the Soviet Army had 65,000 tanks, 75,000 armored vehicles, and 29,000 artillery pieces.

The Soviet Navy was the second largest in the world at that time, with more than 2,000 ships, including 10 aircraft carriers, 79 ballistic missile submarines, 268 cruise and attack submarines, 193 surface main ships, 797 small surface boats, 187 landing craft, 269 auxiliary vessels, 100 nuclear submarines and 100 conventional submarines.

At that time, the Soviet Air Force had nearly 10,000 aircraft of various types, including 752 long-range bombers, 5,200 fighters, bombers and attack aircraft, 620 transport aircraft and 200 helicopters.

The Air Defense Force has 1,300 fighters of various types, 9,600 anti-aircraft missile launchers, 7,000 radars, 100 anti-ballistic missile launchers, 1,400 intercontinental missiles, and 1,700 strategic combat aircraft, the largest in the world.

These are all conventional weapons, and the Soviet Union has frightened other countries the most because of its nuclear weapons.

In terms of nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union had 45,000 nuclear bombs at its peak, while the United States had only 33,000 in the same period, enough to destroy the earth several times. It is also the place where the Soviet Union is most feared in the world.

It is said that the Soviet Union equipped each battalion with 40,000 AK47 rifles in order to prevent a nuclear attack by the United States, so that the weapons could be used normally after a nuclear strike. In 1981, in order to show off its force, the Soviet Union conducted an eight-day joint exercise of the sea, land, air and strategic armies, with 500,000 troops and tens of thousands of tanks, which was the largest military exercise in human history. In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, marking the peak of Soviet hegemony. The Soviet Union at this time was a perverted existence.

However, these things disappeared in an instant after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In the previous life, twenty or thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, some explorers had nothing to do and secretly went to those abandoned military bases to "explore", and saw an extremely shocking scene, thousands of scrapped tanks, tens of thousands of tons of giant ships floating on the sea like dead fish, and even nuclear submarines lying in the base turned into piles of scrap iron.

Of course, it is not all gone, Russia has inherited a part of the Soviet Union's industrial legacy, which may be a tenth of its heyday, but this alone still makes Russia dare not mess with it in the decades that followed.

Liu Lang is not very interested in these equipment, these things can still support the scene in this era, but in the information age twenty years later, they are almost the same as scrap metal.

Today's China's national defense strategy is similar to that of the Soviet Union, attaching great importance to army tanks, infantry and warships, because the thinking of the vast majority of generals is still immersed in traditional tactics, thinking that the factors that determine war are numbers, equipment and tactics, and by the way, there is also fighting spirit, and the national army relies on these to defeat one enemy after another.

It was not until the Gulf War four years later that the US military showed its true strength to the world for the first time.

It was a war between the U.S. military and Iraq, the U.S. military took the initiative to attack, Iraq defended various fortresses to wait for work, and the U.S. military had to cross a large area of desert if it wanted to attack the other side, and Iraq had already deployed millions of troops in the desert, and even buried tanks in the sand, waiting for the other side to throw itself into the net.

The war has attracted the attention of the country's top leaders, and most people believe that even if the Americans can win, they will pay a heavy price in the end, because the empty desert may become a cemetery for the American army.

The result?

The U.S. military did not send an army at all, and they let the small-scale special forces flexibly go deeper, using satellite positioning to sneak under the nose of the other side effortlessly, and then guide the missile launch through laser positioning.

As a result, in a very short period of time, the roaring missiles destroyed all the tanks hidden in all corners, and the Iraqi fighters became blind and deaf under the interference of the US early warning planes as soon as they took off, and the final result was ridiculous, the US troops suffered almost no losses, and the other side was completely annihilated, which could not be called a war at all, but could only be called a one-sided massacre.

How can a war be fought like this?