Posted on 08/06/2021 10:50:39 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Hypersonic weapons could well transform the strategic balance. The United States’ adversaries recognize this fact — Russia and China have both tested hypersonics and appear to have prioritized integrating them into their combat forces. The U.S. must do the same — or accept a strategic balance in our adversaries’ favor.
The Washington news cycle typically overlooks subtle yet consequential policy choices. Biden’s FY2022 defense budget request of $715 billion constitutes a functional decrease from the previous budget — its $11 billion “increase” does not keep pace with inflation. Although the Obama administration’s most robust technologists, former Undersecretary of Defense Robert Work foremost among them, are not serving in this administration, their imprint is clear. Biden cut $8 billion of procurement, and in turn boosted broader research and development by $5.5 billion.
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Biden is standing at the gate ready to hand China the keys to America.
Hard to believe that we outspend the Russians something like 10:1 on military budget but they have more advanced missiles than we do.
Or maybe not.
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He’s already done that.
Hard to believe that we outspend the Russians something like 10:1 on military budget but they have more advanced missiles than we do. Or maybe not.
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The key is do they work and work reliably? The Chinese likely have empty shells the display not actual working missiles. And it may not matter, if the navy’s new EW system work as advertised
The DemocRats have no problem with that.
Different design views.
The US builds a massive carrier. Russia builds a bunch of smaller ships to take out that carrier.
Same with our tanks.
A $1,000 warhead can disable a US tank that costs millions.
I’m betting “not”. Been hearing/reading Soviet/Russian military tech fear stories since the early 80s.
We waste most of that money on useless programs and other irrelevant activities in which military forces should not be involved. We also have incompetent (and even treasonous) civilian leadership. They do not need or want a combat-effective military force.
What they want is a force that can suppress domestic revolts by unarmed civilians.
"It does not matter how fast you are running if it is in the wrong direction."
No need to worry, our Pajama Boy Generals know exactly how to retreat safely.
Doesn’t matter, we spend TWICE as much as Russia and China combined. Therefore we cannot be defeated by them, IMPOSSIBLE.
Pollyanna never won a war.
We went round & round on some of these issues on a Taiwan thread where I attracted a sociopath.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3979585/posts?q=1&;page=1
The thing to keep an eye on is demonstrated capability.
The Russian’s are practical weapons designers following an iterative development cycle similar to the one Elon Musk uses to build his rockets. Their first & second generation weapons in any particular category are going to fall way short of their ‘billing’. But they keep working the problem.
America tends to have a lot of ‘futurists’ when it comes to technology. Gen. Billy Mitchell declared the airplane supreme and that got him into hot water first with the Navy and then with his own Army. Of course his planes demonstrated that they could sink an unarmed obsolete German battleship that was not maneuvering with bombs that were too large for the aircraft to carry any practical distance. It would take many years to ‘work the problem’ until aircraft carriers became the primary warship — in theory — but it took Pearl Harbor to make them primary of necessity.
There are real weaknesses with ultra-long range weapons. Real time targeting, Course adjustments & Warhead size to name a few. Not for the first time we see American futurists declaring the aircraft carrier ‘dead’ as a weapons system. Notice that the Chinese are sparing no expense to develop their own CVN? There is a disconnect there, someplace.
One of the best insightful lines written into a movie ever! The line transcends many situations and disciplines.
Fair to the script though it was "aim small miss small".
The Russian economy is roughly that of Texas.
They go fast.
Well, we already know that bioweapons do.
Every time the MACHINE wants more money, we get threatened with what the latest boogyman supposedly has. Don’t believe even 1/4 of it anymore.
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