(and I don't want it covered online)
Just posting the article, because it seems interesting. I agree Russian and China are both in a major upswing in military spending however, and we need to be very aware of that in the future.
We also need to begin to bring back factories to America.
Big time.
Stealth is retarded. Upgrade F-15s and enjoy lording over the skies. The F-15se makes sense, but stealth is a nettle of hardware vs software. Software to allow radar to “see” what it already picks up grows at an exponential rate.
Airframes fly for decades. So unless you can build an airframe so advanced you can defeat every AAA radar software for decades to come, you will always lose every single time. That is why you do not build an F-35 that is defenseless without stealth. Because essentially in 5 or 10 years it wont have any stealth left at all.
Wont belp if we keep selling major infrastructure companies that are here to China.
Govt did used to block these sales on national security/tech transfer reasons. Not since Obama and Clinton regimes.
I thought the current COC had ordered all the fixtures and jigs destroyed back in his first term.
Somebody is making a fortune off this intentional incompetence.
And stop funding China’s military through our trade imbalance.