22 Fujian has Arrived posted 2 years ago by MagnumRabbits 2 years ago by MagnumRabbits +23 / -1 18 comments share 18 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Hypersonic weapons (like what Russia currently has) makes aircraft carriers largely obsolete and pretty much sitting ducks.
The USA has recently successfully completed one test of hypersonic weapons, but they are years away from reliable manufacture of those.
At the moment it seems that Russia is the most advanced military in the world, and they seem happy to sell some of that tech to China.
The decades of corruption in the USA military industrial complex seem to be biting them on the ass.
But... that is relying on publicly available information so there are likely other secrets hidden that we aren't aware of.
I hope when they start airdropping materiel to "moderate rebels" in the US I get a nice Technical and maybe some AK-47s.
Here's the chain of custody on the arms dropped to US moderate rebels by the Russians in that scenario:
US taxpayer money > US government > "US" arms corps (with kickbacks back to US government) > US Government > Ukraine > Russia > US rebels.
It's a bit roundabout, but at least we'd finally receive some small fraction of what we're paying for.
If my tax dollars were being used to give me guns instead of to take them away I would consider that a net win.