[quiffledwerg]

These are the planes that the military builds when in peacetime controlled by vested interests.

In a real war there would be a much sharper focus on building planes that can fight and win. But that what the enemies of the US are already doing and it’ll be too late for the US when it needs the right planes.

The US is focused on building complex overly technology focused boondoggle machines that take far to long to design and build and cost too much and underperform.

It’s a robot war future anyway.

[remus]

> In a real war there would be a much sharper focus on building planes that can fight and win. But that what the enemies of the US are already doing and it’ll be too late for the US when it needs the right planes.

I think this is partly because if you are not currently at war then you don't know who or when you will be at war with and what exactly the threats will look like so you end up designing for a range of scenarios. If you're currently in the midst of a big war than the requirements are clearer (but certainly not clear!)

[MomoXenosaga]

Realistically the US is never going to fight a war with an equal adversary. When they did WW3 simulations in the cold war it always ended with mushroom clouds.

[boppo1]

I dunno, what happens if China decides it's going after tsmc?

[quiffledwerg]

Can I just say “China going after TSMC” is one of the silliest ideas I’ve heard.

I know people discuss it as plausible in some way, but you only need to think for a microsecond to work out it’s not.

There’s so many reasons why they’d end up with zero that there’s little point even starting to articulate them.

[MomoXenosaga]

Like I said: mushroom clouds. And I am sure Chinese military staff knows it.