I don't think Gallium is the issue. They should have more than enough in stockpile for military needs in aircraft.
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter News, Videos and pics Thread
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While it's not gallium specifically, but I heard that Lockheed Martin only has enough critical materials on hand to cover F-35 production to the end of 2025. They expected the US government to give them priority for new stocks of materials, so it would be unsurprising if this becomes a bottleneck.
What's hilarious about all this is that these critical materials aren't expensive. A couple billion dollars invested into building a strategic stockpile would have give the US MIC enough resources to withstand an embargo for a decade or more. But long term planning and hypercapitalism are just not compatible with one another.
JiT but for military needs too!
Hey, what's more important, having a secure stockpile of critical materials, or making more money?
Checks notes for past 30 years: Money
/jk"It’s not clear if the new radar could be joined with the stealth fighter any earlier than Lot 20."
Lot 20 is the new fuselage/block 4 right? so does this mean new radar wont fit previous ones?
You know what that means...
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As the Great -late Admiral Ackbar said
"ITS A TRAP"
Unfortunately, I don't think we have any great alternatives. We can look to South Korea for submarines, munitions and tracked artillery (which is what was being purposed), and likely some European countries for other weapons, but the reality is we will likely have to purchase many weapon systems from the US. I think the best we can do is try to have a diverse (as is possible and reasonable) source of weapon systems.
Our upcoming River Class destroyers (based on Type 26) will be built locally which is a big achievement for us, especially with 15 planned.
What will these white elephants do? Sail up and down the Chinese coast with the Americans? The only one who is capable of invading Canada is the US and these ships will do jack. Americans will never allow any country except itself to invade Canada anyways.
F-35 is another waste of money. Who wants to bomb Canada? Any country other than the US that might violate our airspace is doing it to get to the US. Again, the Americans have to defend our airspace regardless.
Yep if the US don't collapse, we will pass from US neighboring state to de facto 51 state... F-35 is a waste of money, better to have a lot of Forest fire fighting aircrafts and some business jet with missiles to do long range border patrol.