pointing to 40 year old stealth technology
China's not going to know what hit them! Totally worth killing several million people with easily treatable medical conditions.
What's funny is that the State Department and Hollywood are apparently less self-deluded about America's shrinking technological edge than this fool, going by the latest Top Gun movie where the entire premise is compensating for that with raw skill.
be america
want to bomb :us-foreign-policy:
spend a trillion dollars on a new airplane
doesn't fly in the rain
send a fifty year old aircraft with a sixty year old pilot instead
die from preventable illness
fuck yeah
Remember in ww1 how most of the imperial powers had a real fucking hard time cause they hadn't had a fair fight in almost a century?
The west loves to make fun of Russia now but they're basically running a massive live fire exercise on NATO equipment and tactics in Ukraine right now. It's a lot like the Winter War imo. Even if it doesn't end in a decisive victory, Russia can't really lose against Ukraine, and like the Winter War they are going to learn a lot of lessons and adjust their doctrines for future conflicts accordingly.
Meanwhile it seems we didn't seem to learn anything from getting humiliated in Afghanistan a couple years ago and instead opted to just memory hole it on a national level.
I mean, there was the Franco-Prussian War and the Crimean War.
Granted, there was a huge-ass gulf of tech and tactics between then and WWI.
America had fought the civil war but they still refused to learn anything from it
What about the Invasion of Panama?
We still don't know basic facts about that one, such as number of civilians killed btw.
Also Iraq PT I and the 1994 Invasion of Haiti
A reminder that the F-22 had to use two missiles to shoot down a large, barely moving, unpropelled, baloon.
To be fair even though it is incredibly pedantic and meaningless at this point etc using two missiles to confirm kills is standard air doctrine and really would be far more embarrassing if the 1 in 1,000,000 chance the stupid pilot shot the missile wrong(e.g too far away or from too far below etc) than just using two and getting it done.
But yeah it seems even the first one missed anyway so I'm not even sure what that says about them.
That only seems silly if you don't agree the real purpose of a military is to fire as many missiles as possible
As distinct from most other depts, whose real purpose is to send as many missives as possible
Most sources say it used a single sidewinder missile. Where are you hearing it used two missiles? It is weird that a heatseaking missile took out a cold balloon.
Looks like I was thinking of another balloon that was shot down by an F16 and two missiles.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unidentified-object-shot-down-lake-huron-missile-missed-general-mark-milley/
They keep saying this and it never stops being :stalin-stressed:
It's because we spend all our money on bombs. And that's a good thing :so-true:
"I hope you enjoyed our temporary Jordan Peterson exhibition, next, if you'll look to the left here, we have the Matt Yglesias Wing, containing only the finest examples of dipshittery."
Matt's living brain in a jar with eyeballs, forced to watch and hear all the dunks of the visiting schoolchildren, but eternally unable to reply
Musk gets the same treatment, but with cybernetic enhancements to bring his brain up to average human intelligence so he can understand what an idiot he was all his life
"I'm sorry Comrade, but the Vaush Annex is under renovation at the moment."
China's J-20's actually look like a much better platform than the F-35 for conflict in that theatre. F-22's still look scary good tho.
The development of the J-20 also costed like a fraction of the F-35
To be fair they got any of the good or useful research and engineering of the f35s for free.
:xigma-male:
So why is everyone always mad at China for allegedly stealing IP like military stuff ?
Like who cares and also military stuff is for killing people I'm pretty sure "stealing" the plans and copying them is significantly less bad
So why is everyone always mad at China for allegedly stealing IP like military stuff ?
because westerners are the ultimate bootlickers of property owners.
There's also only like 200 F-22s in existence. There are 10x as many FA-18s and 20x as many F-16s still in service.
Love the quotes around "Free". A strawman as if people arguing for something well-within the US's capabilities aren't aware it has to come from somewhere.
Because CHUDs are too insecure with their masculinity to run a country?
Reminder the Pentagon still has no answer to China's JY-26 "Skywatch-U" UHF 3-D long-range surveillance radar system, which is portable and cheap
China also doesn't have free healthcare so I guess the USA is going to discover that the hard way.
I thought China has public healthcare that is universal and free, just heavily means-tested and lacking.
the CPC started healthcare reform in 1996. since 2013, 95% of the population were covered by health insurance. and today the health status of China's populace is similar to "other countries with advanced economies"
claims sourced from https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)32136-1/fulltext
