2019-10-05 at 3:06 PM UTC
The F35 is the only option. There is no plan B.
US military cuck themselves into a retardedly expensive aircraft that's arguably worse than what they already have. Why are other countries actively buying these things?
2019-10-05 at 3:40 PM UTC
Originally posted by DietPiano
Why are other countries actively buying these things?
they buy it as a protection racket, not really as a weapon.
they buy american planes, american planes come with american technicians and engineers.
if other country bomb their bases = bomb american service crews.
america gets involved.
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2019-10-05 at 3:42 PM UTC
also, nobody needs aircraft carriers anymore when you have ICBMs and airborne missile carriers.
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2019-10-05 at 3:47 PM UTC
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yeah aircraft carriers are only good for threatening brown countries with no real military
2019-10-05 at 3:47 PM UTC
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and making contractors rich I guess
2019-10-05 at 4:16 PM UTC
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I honestly think they're more of a liability nowadays. For the last few decades they've been hyped up as the pinnacle of military superiority and naval power, but against modern missiles they're sitting ducks - what would happen to US military morale if they went into a shooting war with Iran for example, and they used a hypersonic missile they'd quietly bought from Russia, China or even India to kill a carrier in the first half hour? If they went up against Russia or China directly every single carrier in the world would be a target.
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2019-10-05 at 4:27 PM UTC
what else do you use to deploy aircraft at a moment's notice overseas? I think the ability to not have to wait for others to go across the planet is important, even if it doesn't make as much of a difference within inter-superpower warfare for strike missions and such
2019-10-05 at 11:19 PM UTC
Getting a rusty old freighter and kitting it out with the kit to launch missiles would be so much cheaper than buying an aircraft carrier.
Even in WW2 everyone was bitching about how shitty piloted planes were, and doing different things to try to replace piloted planes with missiles. Piloted planes are slow, heavy, inefficient, expensive, unreliable, a logistical mess, a PR disaster waiting to happen, and travel twice as far as they need to.
Missiles are faster than planes, smaller, lighter, cheaper, only need to do the journey one way, and don't produce any negative PR when they get shot down or captured.
It Hitler or Goering were alive today (and we all hope they are) they'd be all in on missiles, and would retire the entire Luftwaffe besides a few cargo planes.
The only problem would be that Stalin might notice that Hitler was on ebay 24/7 buying GPS modules and arduinos with free shipping from various sellers in Shenzhen.
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