“I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down!!”. Ok, sure, I’m a shaking mess. I remember the fear of the Russian Mig 25 fighter jet. At the time we really didn’t have anything to compete against it, or that’s what we were made to believe. Although it’s turbos could take the jet to Mach 3 or better, the engines would go into overdrive and would have to be scrapped. When one was finally obtained by U.S. forces, it was described as a “flying tin can” due to the design and poor craftmanship. They have improved it since, but it still cannot compete with what we have. The Russians don’t want a nuclear war anymore than we do. Their threats are as empty as Kruschev banging his shoe on the table and ranting “We will bury you!!”.
There was a brief time when the need for speed was the goal. Once Missiles were introduced and found completely effective, the speed of the military aircraft diminished. Missiles killed the race for the fasted fighter jet.
The faster the plane in those pre-missile dominance times could intercept enemy aircraft. The German Jet is a case in point and shows the tradeoffs.
and yet here we are BEING buried...not by russia but by liberal progressives and their complicit rinoclass cronies who are, and have been, about the task of burying these United States of America under a mountain of illegal trespassers. President Donald J Trump brought a shovel but our illustrious CONgresscritters and their despicable crony judges keep stopping him from using it to clear out the mountain. if only more Americans were willing to use that shovel too.