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4Tran

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FairAndUnbiased said:
Do they have any deployed long range weapon other than Tomahawks and JASSMs?

As subsonic cruise missiles, they're hard limited by kinematics. It doesn't matter how stealthy they are if they can be picked up by OTH radar, AWACs viewing from above or forward observers. Then a fighter can be vectored in to shoot it down with an IR missile or to look at it from high return angles like top down. And Tomahawks aren't even meant to be stealthy.

Otherwise it seems the majority of their strike power is just short ranged glide bombs.
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Remember that the American military is built to fight against people who can't shoot back. Until very recently they have very little that can fight against difficult opponents. And I don't think most Americans can even conceive of an opponent who has superior capabilities.
 
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defenceman

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siegecrossbow said:
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Is Mark trying to serve his country? By fighting on the frontlines he can easily allay any misgivings people have about the billionaire class.
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Hi,
one been phased out by trump, another trying to jump into the arena let’s see how long
he can survive this romance with Donald Trump
thank you
 
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SlothmanAllen

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Well the "One Big Beautiful Bill" passed the house and is expected to be signed by President Trump today. One of the line items mentioned in the article below is kind of interesting.

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$9 billion for air superiority. The latest version of the bill deleted $1 billion in spending for classified programs and inserted $600 million for an Air Force long range strike aircraft and $500 million for a Navy long range strike aircraft — two efforts that do not seem to be associated with a publicly-known program of record.
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Does anybody have any idea what these long range strike aircraft are?
 
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HailingTX20

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SlothmanAllen said:
inserted $600 million for an Air Force long range strike aircraft
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Does anybody have any idea what these long range strike aircraft are?
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The exact text from the bill:

$600,000,000 for the development, procurement, and integration of Air Force long-range strike aircraft
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Whatever it is, it's nothing important. $600 million is like six F-35Cs. So it's likely just research about upgrades of existing planes. Nothing major costs that little to develop, procure and integrate.
 
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Anlsvrthng

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Interesting, the USA just run out of AIM-120,patriot , hellfire, stinger missiles, and there is no discussion about it.

Two weeks of Iranian strikes has been enought to drain the Israel/USA stock of air defense systems.

The shocking is the AIM120, without that how the USA wants to use the jest as air defence?

And the Stingers?

Not a suprise to see Trump beging the russians for a pause, to refill everything.

As it looks like, the USA problem is not the Chinese capability. Not even the Russian capability to make weapons. But the Iranian capability is too much for the USA industry.

After twoo weeks.....
 
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Overbom

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Anlsvrthng said:
Interesting, the USA just run out of AIM-120,patriot , hellfire, stinger missiles, and there is no discussion about it.

Two weeks of Iranian strikes has been enought to drain the Israel/USA stock of air defense systems.

The shocking is the AIM120, without that how the USA wants to use the jest as air defence?

And the Stingers?

Not a suprise to see Trump beging the russians for a pause, to refill everything.

As it looks like, the USA problem is not the Chinese capability. Not even the Russian capability to make weapons. But the Iranian capability is too much for the USA industry.

After twoo weeks.....
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Source?
 
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