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| US loses Simulated Air War with China |
| 2014-07-30 |
| According to the Rand war scenario developed for the Pentagon, the most expensive military weapon in the history of mankind is a complete and utter failure. The futuristic warplane is supposed to replace all other jet fighters in the US arsenal at a cost of $1 trillion and climbing. As one critic published a few weeks ago, thatÂ’s enough money to buy a $100,000 home for every homeless family in America for the next six generations. The F-35 didnÂ’t fail because of its recurring engine fires or the problems itÂ’s still having with vertical landings and take-offs. It failed because it was designed to do too many things. And sometimes, especially in war, quantity beats quality. We used to joke as teens that you could line up the Chinese and machinegun them down all day and night and they would still reproduce faster than we could eliminate them. Ironically enough, thatÂ’s basically the tactic that leads to AmericaÂ’s defeat to the Chinese military in Pentagon simulations. |
| Posted by:Uncle Phester |
| #7 ..sort of like Latin America on El Norte today. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-07-30 22:38 |
| #6 We always said that short of a nuclear response, china, if they wanted to, could swarm over the Soviet Union armed with nothing more than spoons. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-07-30 22:05 |
| #5 Superiority |
| Posted by: James 2014-07-30 21:38 |
| #4 When the Israelis received their Phantoms from Nixon the first thing they did was to add cannons/machine guns. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2014-07-30 21:37 |
| #3 Darth: my 6th grade teacher first related the Chinese anecdote to me. If told in today's PC USA he would be fired. Great teacher - he was pointing out how huge the pop. was and he didn't say it with malice. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2014-07-30 21:34 |
| #2 The F-35 is being introduced into a century where the Fed-USDOD believes that no major wars will occur anymore thru Year 2050 iff not thru 2100. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-07-30 20:51 |
| #1 Sounds like the old Vietnam era thought with missiles and no guns on the fighters. What happens when you get in a dog fight? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-07-30 19:53 |