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Gloire_bb said:

Iirc no one ever saw su-30 with kh-35. Only su-34 consistently carries kh-35, and other flankers only use kh-31s(red "mgm"s don't count).
It's unironically appears to be one of the reasons why otherwise rather mediocre mig-29m2 was so popular in later 2010s - everything is in fact integrated there, not just promises of "pay and we'll do".

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Yeah, Venezuelan Flankers don't have Kh-35. The "designated" missile for the AShM role is the Kh-59MK.

And never got the Bal's. There was intent to get them along with Kilo's but it never happened

Oh well so much for that.
They did get the S-300VM though I think.

Yeah. They have been paraded every 5th of July, hopefully they are fully operational along with the Buks and S125

Against US it doesn't matter, all possible ratios are not even funny.

This is currently the largest U.S. military deployment to the Caribbean since 1965.

Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM, illustrative payload):
USS Lake Erie (CG 70) → 32 missiles
USS Sampson (DDG 102) → 32 missiles
USS Gravely (DDG 107) → 32 missiles
USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) → 32 missiles
USS Newport News (SSN 750) → 12 missiles
Total: 140 Tomahawks (potential).

Expeditionary Package – Iwo Jima ARG (22nd MEU):
USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) → Marines: 1,687 / Sailors: 1,070
USS San Antonio (LPD 17) → Marines: 750 / Sailors: 383
USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28) → Marines: 650 / Sailors: 363

Air Assets (Navy / USMC):
10× F-35B Lightning II
6× AV-8B Harrier
2× P-8A Poseidon
4× MH-60R/S Seahawk
6× MV-22B Osprey
4× CH-53E Super Stallion
4× AH-1Z Viper (Cobra)
4× UH-1Y Venom

U.S. Air Force (USAF):
2× C-5M Galaxy
2× KC-46A Pegasus
2× KC-135R Stratotanker
2× MQ-9 Reaper drones

Seems like overkill against Venezuela.

Venezuela is a country with 28 million people. Roughly the same as North Korea.
But industrially they are really weak. They got addicted to exporting oil. There is also no large regional ally like China.