That is the bigger question. If a $100,000,000 jet can be taken down by a $5,000,000 swarm of drones, or its carrier sniped by a hypersonic anti-ship missile, the jet’s not accomplishing a whole lot.
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft @Obscurica
Drones are highly vulnerable to jamming, and nobody's ever proven they can beat the Aegis network around a carrier. Though that'd be a declaration of war just below a Nuclear strike nowadays.
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En réponse à @Onesteelcobra @Obscurica
Right, but that’s what a fleet of 2400 aircraft is designed for - all out war. And assuming all drones are vulnerable to jamming assumes that an enemy wouldn’t be willing to develop a one shot fire and forget version that operates autonomously.
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft @Obscurica
That's called a missile. And you can't really rush planes into service now they way we could in 1940 or even 1970.
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En réponse à @Onesteelcobra @Obscurica
Which gets back to the concurrency problem which was the heart of the issue. *Assuming* the f35 maintains dominance, and our carriers don’t get taken out (and can actually launch them), fine. We’re good. If that basket full of eggs falls, though, it’s not going to be good.
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft @Obscurica
The concurrency thing's kind of valid with the Ford, but other First of Class carriers had basically the same problems. The F-35, on the other hand, there's the raw numbers that can be iteratively improved. And why Russia and China are failing to catch up.
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En réponse à @Onesteelcobra @Obscurica
Right, but again that’s just brute forcing the problem, which means that money could have been better spent elsewhere (like, for example, on the New Green Deal). My main point is that when people say “the money’s not there,” they’re being specious, because the money *is* there.
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It’s just being applied in less than optimal ways (which is a whole other debate about how defense procurement actually works in this country).
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft @Obscurica
Though just fixing our tax revenue by making the rich and megacorps actually pay taxes would help a lot more.
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100% agreed
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