(World Steel Production % by country)
Posted on 09/08/2025 12:17:09 PM PDT by Retain Mike
Five aviation companies are under contract to develop armed, unmanned aircraft and control systems for use on the Navy’s fleet of 11 aircraft carriers, USNI News has learned.
General Atomics, Boeing, Anduril and Northrop Grumman are on contract for the conceptual design of the so-called collaborative combat aircraft, or CCA, according to a Navy presentation reviewed by USNI News. Lockheed Martin is under contract to build the common control system.
The Navy wants “uncrewed, modular, interoperable, interchangeable and versatile platforms” that it can field from an aircraft carrier, reads the slide from Naval Air Systems Command’s program executive office for unmanned aviation and strike weapons. Breaking Defense first reported the slide’s details.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...
Well, freighters as in all the freight they carry is rockets and drones.
Design would be light and fast, with no humans on board.
Isn’t it?
Is it also a coincidence that Bitcoin is not being encouraged by the gooberment and the Trump boys are $1.5 billion into it? Guess not.
Add large bulk carriers that could contain thousands of drones / long range missiles.
From your referenced article :
The shift “doesn’t seem aligned with President Trump’s hawkish views on China at all,”
It’s good that we are filling a gap by placing focus on the homeland. But that doesn’t mean we are abandoning allies or throwing out the concept which has been in place since WWII that we ignore the rise of tyrants in other parts of the world at our peril.
This ‘draft’ paper article says nothing about abandoning that strategy. Only that an area previously thought to not need emphasis now needs it.
Ill leave it there until we see the final copy of the NSS after Hegseth and the president have had their chance to redline it.
Oh, and ‘unattainable’ deterrence against China? Thats someone’s opinion. Yours? I didn’t see that in the reference either.
Trump is either taking tech bribes or he is a gullible fool and they are manipulating him.
I don’t like either one but thnk more gullible than other. Flattery is his weakness and a big one.
“Flattery is his weakness and a big one.”
“You giving me those contracts was absolutely genius Mr President!”
“...since WWII that we ignore the rise of tyrants in other parts of the world at our peril.”
Running all around the world looking for Monsters to Destroy is why the USA has overstretched itself, and is in such decline.
There has been different leaks from different publications on this. We will see what the final product looks like.
But all the Boomer Bravado and nostalgia in the world can’t overshadow the fact that the USA is now a tiny fraction of China industrial and military production capacity.
Thats BS. We are overstretched and in financial distress because of a lot of over spending, but the military part of that is a few percent. The welfare mentality and cradle to grave approach to govt health care was the start of our problems. Corruption has led to the rest.
(World Steel Production % by country)
Running all around the world looking for Monsters to Destroy is why the USA has overstretched itself, and is in such decline.
You are showing a steel production chart (which I have no disagreement with). How does this relate to the US running all over the world and overstretching itself? Please try to stay focused and not change topics to avoid thoughtful answers.
To my point, that there are many other reasons for our problems, we do have a spending problem. Its just not the military that is the problem:
Try getting rid of the welfare state, redistribution, making things like health care a right when they are not, and midnight basketball.
It has to do with military capacity, which is backed up by the capacity of the Industrial Base to produce what is needed on an ongoing basis for a lengthy war.
NATO as a whole (including USA) is being massively outproduced in munitions and military equipment by Russia alone.
And the production gap is actually larger than it was in 2022.
And Russia is dwarfed by China.
THAT’S the overstretch. USA no longer has the industrial capacity to even deal with Russia, let alone China.
Pulling the plug on Asia and telling Taiwan they are on their own is just a matter of time, and is rooted in industrial and military reality.
It’s inevitable, and the West has to stop writing cheques its ass can’t afford to have cashed.
If we want to, we can still out produce either or both combined. What we dont want to do is wreck the dollar doing that. Russia is wrecking its currency and economy. China has wasted Trillians on show case cities that are unoccupied. And its not a fair comparison to make between a somewhat free market economy like ours and state owned economies of russia and china in any case.
Thus the tariff policies to get trade imbalances fixed and give the US worker a chance to compete against chinese slave labor or russian state employees (which are basically paid slave wages)
“US GDP is still more than both the chinese and russian GDP combined. And not by a trivial lead. US GDP is 25T to 30T per year. Chinese GDP is about 17T. Russia has a GDP of 2T.”
I would have thought the “GDP” argument was played out by now.
It’s obvious it doesn’t correlate with industrial capacity. Or even potential industrial capacity.
(after 3 years, Russia is pulling away in terms of munitions and equipment output)
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