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look at all that artillery... truly, the king of battle
also note how the "fully reinforced" for NATO is all about North American forces, which would of course need to cross the entire Atlantic without getting dunked on by Soviet subs, so really the NATO numbers would probably be even lower
you said you were talking about russian military forces. specifically about equipment is different, but you're still being obtuse to act like exports were clear reflections of a first-rate military's even on the same model of a given weapon, the good shit was reserved for domestic use.
great point about the air, because if the soviet union had designed their tank fleet around them being sitting ducks after losing an air war they might have made different design decisions, but removed from the context of being competitive in the air, what do you know, the equipment was sub-optimal.
i also readily accept that american tanks in foreign service are not performing as well in ukraine, iraq, or saudi arabia as they do in american service. weapons have contexts, the "my tank vs your tank" 1:1 doesn't dictate the shape of a war