[PGR88]

And even if they don't have the capability of fabricating chips with the current world record line widths, I'm sure they can develop and fabricate computer chips that are acceptable for putting together the electronics for a fighter jet.

the most advanced chips are for consumer devices, advanced graphics, etc... A lot of US military hardware has specs for chips from the 1990s and earlier.

[Boogieman]

“A lot of US military hardware has specs for chips from the 1990s and earlier.”

Yet the Russians were still relying on Western-made chips for their cruise missile targeting systems and the like. If they can’t even reproduce tech we were using 30 years ago, I don’t think it’s likely they will catch up to us anytime soon, at least as far as high tech weapons are concerned.