You need to have a viable tactic to the supposed "garbage sea" strategy that US seems to be trying to adapt. US wants to launch huge numbers of subsonic long range missiles like the LRASM in times of conflict, and the best counter to this is to crush the formations by using fighters with air-to-air loadouts compared to air-to-sea loadouts.
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The KJ-3000's MTOW is more than twice, perhaps close to thrice that of the E-7A.
That obviously means a significantly more powerful radar.
Not too hard to imagine what that would translate to in terms of comparative performance and capabilities.
The KJ-700 has entered service.
It's possible for E-7A to have a similarly sized antenna compared to the KJ-3000, its ~11m long and quite tall like maybe ~2.5+m tall, while its definitely no longer than the antenna on the KJ-3000(~14m diameter radome?), it's probably a bit taller.
But with a larger plane and more engine you could potentially drive more power through the antenna and offer more cooling capacity with much more back-end signal processing capability.
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I've been reading the War Nerd columns since they started in The Exile more than . John Dolan no longer writes in the biting and outrageous persona of Gary Brecher, but the uncomfortable insights remain. I've engaged with the podcast on-and-off throughout the years but have remained subscribed since the war with Ukraine started. Both John and Mark Ames spent a number of years living and writing in Russia in the late 90s through early 2000s and thus have a level of familiarity with Russia's recent history and lived experience that is unusual amongst English-speaking folk. Ames is an anti-Zionist Jew, and it is always refreshing (if depressing) to hear that perspective on Israel devoid of antisemitic connotations. Dolan's history as a failed English professor and globetrotting ESL teacher means he has a wealth of fascinating and relevant anecdotes to draw on (e.g. experiences with Yemenis and Saudis in Najran), and I've probably learned more about African wars and conflicts from reading and listening to him than from any other source. They cover all sorts of contemporary and historical conflicts and regularly have guests on to discuss fields outside their expertise (such as Carl Zha on China), but those three areas (Russia, Africa, Israel) are their areas of greatest strength relative to most English-language voices.
The development of Special Forces culture in America seems to be a particularly acute example of the social consequences of the transition from mass conscript armies to much smaller populations of volunteer soldiers (sailors, etc.) who are increasingly highly trained, specialised, and integrated into an ever more complicated technological superstructure. Aviation was an elite endeavour from the very beginning, but for the other services there has been a considerable transition over time. Before the age of industry, there were limits to the advantages that could be obtained through training and equipment, in that there remained a basic equality between a soldier in the army, an Apache indian, and a farmer. Today, small numbers of highly trained individuals equipped with the best weapons and supported by the most advanced technologies that money can buy can wield unprecedented power over the masses. That has social and political consequences that we are only beginning to appreciate.
I've always wanted to read Spengler's later (1931) work Man and Technics as I suspect it may shed some more light on one of the prophetic ideas he conveyed in his earlier work The Decline of the West: "For the demand of these four years has been altogether too much for the principle of universal service, a child of the French Revolution [....] The place of the permanent armies as we know them will gradually be taken by professional armies of volunteer war-keen soldiers; and from millions we shall revert to hundreds of thousands. But ipso facto this second century will be one of actually Contending States. These armies are not substitutes for war, they are for war."
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Contrary to popular belief, the faction founded by Joaquin Guzman and subsequently led by his sons was never the dominant force within the Mexican underworld or even CDS. At this point — as evidenced by their with both US federal law enforcement and former rival CJNG — the Los Chapitos as they're called are .
As you can imagine, this isn't in fact a negotiation. Senior Los Chapitos are desperately doing Uncle Sam's bidding against other DTOs so the Guzman clan may retire in relative comfort in the US rather than face extermination at the hands of rivals in Mexico.
What's perhaps more interesting is the Trump administration's unprecedented decision in February to designate multiple DTOs — including CJNG, CDS, and whatever Los Zetas is called now — as de jure .
As a result, the Trump administration is now positioned to fundamentally shift "the war on drugs" from the DoJ's purview to the DoD's and/or CIA's portfolios, should it wish to do so.
Probably not the best idea to further militarize "the war on drugs," but could be fun to watch!
