Panzercracker
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No you didnt misunderstood me, you just have no idea how military budgets work.Forgive me if I misunderstood you, but according to these two sources:
Source 1: Russia has the 5th highest military expenditure of $58.6 Billion USD [As of 2008]
Source 2: Russia has the 3rd highest military expenditure behind China and the United States at $50.0 Billion USD
I might have misunderstood you however, so please tell me if I have.
I'll keep it simple, you need to divide any given sum by the amount of forces you have, the kind of equipment they posses, the infrastructure they run.
US total military budget is 680~ billion USD total for just over 1.3 milion troops, Chinese military budget is only 70~ billion USD.
The difference? More then 50% of Chinese hardware is over 30 years old.
Now Russia has over a million troops, a much larger fleet, much more ground equipment to keep then both China and US combined and its budget is 50 billion USD.
This translates to an average Russian unit receiving less then 1/20th funding of an average Western European unit and less then 1/10th of an average central European unit.
To give you a picture, just recently russian navy got boiled eggs for breakfreast which was hailed as a major feeding reform.
Of course there are some units that are better funded but even the elites are well below what the Western world considers as average.