Cold War never ended what sort of military tech and doctrine

ar-pharazon

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So assume with a 60s or 70s POD the soviets solve their economic problems and revitalize their economy and at the bare minimum keep pace with the west.

Assuming rough equality in technology what sort of tech and weaponry would exist in a continuing cold war today? 2005? 2010? 1995? 2000?

Would the military-technological situation be more advanced and if so by how much.

Would the soviets have aircraft carriers? If they did how would this affect US strategy and doctrine?

Broader consequences in the military and military technological sphere?
 
Soviets would have CVs, both Kuznetzovs, both Ulyanovsks and maybe two of a successor class or just extras, and the Kievs might all get Baku style rebuilds. Of course the Soviet CVs would be inferior to US ones, only the Ulyanovsks and later would come close, and there are few enough of them to be dealt with existing weapons

Look at all the stuff cancelled by the fall of the USSR for examples of other stuff. How advanced is really hard to qualify, how are you measuring that
 

ar-pharazon

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I mean in the sense the quality and caliber of such systems would be more capable and effective than the ones in the eighties
 

ar-pharazon

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In a more broad sense would military technology be more advanced than OTL if the Cold War continued to the present and if so how much?
 
In a more broad sense would military technology be more advanced than OTL if the Cold War continued to the present and if so how much?
In a broad sense yes, but as I have been saying this is a really hard thing to quantify

One could guess that certain systems would be in service years earlier, but it is quite likely that some of them could be in various ways less capable, especially anything COTS is almost certain to be little if any ahead of OTL
 
For the ground force, I'd say some tactics to be learnt from Vietnam War (and Third Indochina War)
  • SAM batteries would be used in conjuction with AA guns. During Operation Linebacker II (Dec 72), the organic radar of SAM-2 was unable to catch the signal of B52s (and that was after the VPA had their own experience in counter-jamming) while the radar for 57mm AA guns was able to do so.
  • Armoured pushes into the cities would be further refined (learnt from Easter Offensive 72 and SaiGon Offensive 75). I'd say that IFVs made on tank's chassis would be made in higher number.
  • "Blossoming Lotus": Send in infiltration units to seize and/or destroy key targets (bridges, posts, airfields...) and hold it long enough for the regular force to relief.
  • Armoured warfare with speed and power (learnt from the 2-week push into Rouge Khmer territory)
  • Artillery barrage and counter-barrage
 
In a more broad sense would military technology be more advanced than OTL if the Cold War continued to the present and if so how much?
Overall yes; more money. However it's be specialised in the Cold War manner; ground forces suited to massive tank battles in Central Europe, naval forces optimised to defend against Soviet subs and massed missile attacks.
Programmes like the A-12, Project 1.44, G-11 would probably have entered service.
 

SsgtC

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For the US, I don't think the tech would be very different. Most of what we use today had it's origins in the Cold War. What would be different are the numbers. For example, all 29 Seawolf class submarines would have been built. And possibly more if the Soviet threat was deemed big enough. We would have had the full production run of F-22 fighters. And more B-2s built as well. The Navy would likely have a new fighter, either the Super Tomcat or a new stealth design. The Army and Marine Corps may have a new rifle. The Corps likely has a new AAV. Things like the Striker and MRAP don't get built. The Army doesn't convert to a brigade based force, instead remaining Division based. The Cav brigades remain as Armored Cav. The US still has the 2d and 3d Armored Divisions on the rolls along with more infantry divisions. We're probably fielding the M1A3 Abrams.
 
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