The Nimitz group is heading to the Middle East
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Couldn't you have linked the reuter's article instead of this huge twitter screenshot.
I think that it's about the connections of the prime defense contractor versus the connections to Trump. The primes have been around forever and they have strong ties to both the serving military officers and to established members of both the Republican and Democratic parties. What they don't have though, is much to Trump himself. Instead, his connections are to the tech bro companies like Starlink and Anduril. We also have had Hegseth come out and say, "I will measure it as success if in the next two years, one of the primes is no longer in business, and the rest of them have all gotten stronger."
So a lot of it is a matter of siphoning money from the prime contractors to the tech bro ones, and the rest is an attack on perceived inefficiency. Of course, whether there's any rhyme or reason to any of this is going to depend on how competent you think Trump and his people are.
This seems like a pretty risky move that could cripple half the entire military industrial complex and lead to an overall weaker supply chain ecosystem. It also doesn't do anything to improve the rare earth bottleneck, shipbuilding labor shortage, or manufacturing cost situation for them.
When’s the last time you saw America doing anything smart? If America was smart it wouldn’t have gotten bogged down in Afghanistan, Iraq, done regime change operations in Syria and Libya, and now about to in Iran… It wouldn’t have managed its crucial military programs like the constellation or KC-46 like this either. America is sick and it’s getting sicker, and not just in the military.
RTX with a propulsion break through in which they have demonstrated a Rotating Detonation Combustor (RDC) engine with positive thrust. The goal is now to demonstrate it on a relevant missile platform.
I think in the future of a lot of big manned and unmanned aircraft will use alternative propulsion methods like this. Turbofans struggle to get above Mach 3, so either some form of combined cycle system has to be used or another form of propulsion has to be deployed. A lot of groups are trying to get into the hypersonic regime currently, so if that trend persists I suspect you will see the US and China operating such craft within about 20 years.
I think in the future of a lot of big manned and unmanned aircraft will use alternative propulsion methods like this. Turbofans struggle to get above Mach 3, so either some form of combined cycle system has to be used or another form of propulsion has to be deployed. A lot of groups are trying to get into the hypersonic regime currently, so if that trend persists I suspect you will see the US and China operating such craft within about 20 years.
It's nuts, but remember that the primary point isn't to make good military gear. The main idea is to line the pockets of Trump's favorites and to take it away from the established companies. The other side is that Hegseth doesn't have any real understanding of military necessities so he has really weird ideas about what the US military needs. I think that there's still a feeling among Trump's lackeys that the US is militarily invincible so nothing they do is going to weaken American standing in the world.
