It will be hilarious if they win though.
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Not a big issue if US military doesn't light fires all over the world, even half of the F-35 will be good enough to defend US territories.
Even 0 F-35s would be fine.
There is absolutely nobody who wants to invade United States.
US developing better strike munitions than the current abysmal selection is to be expected over the coming years, but I don't see them coming close to matching PLA options born of decades of investment with a halfhearted late game push. This increment 4 has 800km range, is land based and competes against systems like CJ-1000, DF-26 & 27.. even if they put them in Mk41s I don't see it doing much good with the YJ-17's range being probably easily twice that or more.
The note about both increments & LRASM only having EO/IR seekers without ARH is interesting, wouldn't that be much more vulnerable to various countermeasures?
Not just the F-35A, the entire F-35 series has a readiness rate is below 50%
You can invade mainland US, but you would have to be willing to do a 5x Gaza on every one of its city's
They don't build submarines and fighters and bombers to defend themselves. They build these to dominate others.
Unless nukes are used, the only way such a result to work for the USA is a zombie apocalypse and given how crazy some members of the deep state are and how the COVID is likely to have actually come about, I would honestly peg the USA as the number one nation in the world to not only cause such a thing, but ultimately go down because of this given how poor their response to Covid is.
FN is joining the NGSW program again. Now with their own new rifle and bullet. The big difference this time is that, compared to SIG's battle rifle cartridge, FN seems to be trying to stick with an intermediate caliber. Their new 6.5 is roughly the same weight and size as the existing 5.56, but a lot more effective at range and penetration. A standard magazine of 6.5 would contain 25 rounds vs the 30 rounds of 5.56 we use now.
I'm not sure why the US is so adamant on getting a new round so feverishly. Just making a higher pressure variant of the existing 5.56 would've worked, or even better, buy them off the shelf since they already exist for the civillian market. This is what China did with their new 5.8 round. They act like they really do have an unlimited budget for the military.
I'm not sure why the US is so adamant on getting a new round so feverishly. Just making a higher pressure variant of the existing 5.56 would've worked, or even better, buy them off the shelf since they already exist for the civillian market. This is what China did with their new 5.8 round. They act like they really do have an unlimited budget for the military.