How did the Soviet Union once lead the United States militarily?

Something that has never been, it's all YY. The Soviet Union was far inferior to the United States in military power at any time. Socialism has no superiority, and the so-called concentration of forces to do great things is actually far inferior to capitalism, regardless of the results of the people's own play, but when the capitalist countries concentrate their forces, there are major events such as the US moon landing project.

The Soviet Union's overall strength was far inferior to that of the United States, and many of its scientific and technological advances were far behind those of the United States, and such abnormal development resulted in its military science and technology being far inferior to the United States in almost any aspect at any time. The so-called developed heavy industry of the Soviet Union is actually far inferior to the West in many places, for example, the diameter of the pressure-resistant shell of the Soviet submarine has always been small, more than 10 meters is the limit, and the same is true now, while the West can easily achieve more than 14 meters.

During the Cold War, in order to compete for hegemony with the Western camp led by the United States, the Soviet Union invested a large amount of strength in the development of military heavy industry, ignoring the development of light industry related to people's livelihood.

And the Western camp led by the United States cannot be as extreme as the Soviet Union.

In the long run, the Soviet Union's military development surpassed that of the United States, and the result was that it surpassed the United States militarily for a time.

Greyhond is right, the Soviet Union is indeed only in a few independent items at that time in the world in the leading state, such as the army's tanks, armored vehicles, individual air defense, rocket troops' ballistic missile guidance, etc., In fact, the landlord can refer to a few Middle East wars to see, of course, people are also the most critical, after the end of World War II, the Americans brought a large number of scientists back to the United States, and the Soviet Union because of the convenience of being on the same continent, only brought back a large number of machinery and equipment and drawings, (The Nazis' vision of long-range rockets and supersonic fighters).

The concentration of manpower and material resources strengthens the spiritual factor.

Partially leading! And the best equipment also needs high-tech as it does now! Most of the new technologies developed by the continuation of World War II technology!

Starving the people and taking all the money to develop the military.

The superiority of the socialist system.

During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were more powerful in terms of military strength and even overall national strength. Let's first take a look at the strength of the two sides, the total strength of the Soviet army is 3.4 million, of which the rocket army is 10,000, and the army is 1.4 million air force

420,000, Navy: 450,000, Air Defense: 230,000, Internal Guard:

350,000. The total number of personnel in the US military is 2.02 million, including 10,000 in the Army, 580,000 in the Navy, 10,000 in the Air Force, and 10,000 in the Marine Corps.

As for the balance of power between the two superpowers, the main ones are military confrontation and economic confrontation. Let's start with the arms race. The Soviet Union learned the lessons of World War II, vigorously developed heavy industry, and rapidly increased industrial output value, so that the Soviet Union rapidly grew into a superpower in a short period of time, while the United States was too busy controlling the world after the war to care about the arms race.

The United States did not wake up until Gagarin returned to Earth from space, and its military strength is slightly inferior, but due to its great economic power, it can quickly catch up in the short term; In economic terms, the USSR had its inherent flaws. By the end of World War II, the capital of the United States accounted for about 75% of the entire capitalist world, and its economic power was worthy of world hegemony. However, the economic conditions of the USSR were obvious to all, food and clothing were almost a problem, so economically it was the United States that was stronger than the former USSR.

The U.S. military has also developed rapidly, supported by a strong economic base. Although some places are inferior to the USSR, they are also well developed. The US Air Force and Navy were also very strong and could almost compete with the USSR.

In addition, the United States produced a large number of aircraft carriers in a very short time.

The military power of the United States was not inferior to that of the Soviet Union. It is also because the United States does not have a long-term feudal history, so it has developed relatively rapidly, constantly opening up to the outside world, and paying attention to domestic economic development. Although the Soviet Union's military strength was very strong, it blindly pursued heavy industry and neglected the development of the economy and people's livelihood, and the proportion of the economy was seriously unbalanced.

Even at the peak of the army, they showed a state of decadence in this regard.

In general, during the Cold War, the United States was superior in the economic field, but the USSR was superior in space and nuclear ** equipment, but because of the collapse of the USSR, it was the United States that was superior. This Cold War was also the most important reason that led to the final collapse of the Soviet Union.

The military power of the USSR was somewhat stronger, and in the late 60s, the USSR surpassed the United States in military spending. Although military spending does not determine military strength, it is the most important indicator. In the seventies, the Soviet Union had already surpassed the United States in military power.

USSR. The Soviet Union had the most powerful land forces, and later took control of Europe, and had a lot of tanks.

During the Cold War, the military strength of the United States and the Soviet Union was evenly matched, so the Cold War lasted for many years. It ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Luo Zhenyu: What was the difference in strength between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, is it the same as you think?

The United States is several times stronger than the Soviet Union, the Battle of Zhenbao Island is the period of Khrushchev's administration, the Soviet Union fought China, Soviet soldiers used high technology **, but the losses exceeded the Chinese, the United States Korean War, the location of the attack was easy to defend and difficult to attack several times more than Zhenbao Island, but the number of deaths was far less than that of China, and the number of casualties was more, which shows the combat strength of both sides.