If it hit the PX Burger King, probably some very terrible things...
US Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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This policy will lower their classification levels in order to share some technologies and programs with private industry and international allies to help the U.S. build an "asymmetric advantage and force multiplier that neither China nor Russia could ever hope to match," Plumb said in a DoD statement.
What it will do is help kill any national projects those countries have to would allow them to have an independent military apparatus. It will tie them further to the US space based complex. The US spends more in space than all other countries combined. The claim it would give an advantage against China or Russia is just plain bunk.
Heritage posted the 2024 Military Index for the US military, the conclusion was:
US Army - marginal
US Navy - weak
USAF - very weak
USMC - strong
USSF - marginal
Nuclear capacity - marginal
Overall - weak
US Army - marginal
US Navy - weak
USAF - very weak
USMC - strong
USSF - marginal
Nuclear capacity - marginal
Overall - weak
Interesting stat is that the F-35A is now the most common active duty fighter aircraft in USAF inventory (though the F-16 still outnumbers when adding in ANG and AFR) with 412.
F-35A's availability doesn't look good
It is pretty pathetic when even after like a decade in service they can't get the F-35 availability properly up.
How come some airframes from the Cold War which should be close to retirement have better availability...
F-35 was supposed to be the low maintenance low cost version of F-22 and yet it is still like this.
The F-15 airframes also seem to be wasting away before our very eyes. With no proper twin engine replacement.
How come some airframes from the Cold War which should be close to retirement have better availability...
F-35 was supposed to be the low maintenance low cost version of F-22 and yet it is still like this.
The F-15 airframes also seem to be wasting away before our very eyes. With no proper twin engine replacement.
The report said Russia and China are designing and testing counter-space weapons to “deny, disrupt or destroy satellites and space services. China is also developing — and may be close to deploying — ground-based lasers capable of damaging and not just temporarily blinding US satellite sensors, it said. “They often mask or conceal these activities to avoid international condemnation,” according to the report, titled “Competing in Space” and set to be released Thursday.
It said China’s Shijian 17 has a robotic arm to grapple other satellites, while Russia “has deployed multiple prototype orbital anti-satellites in Low Earth Orbit,” including the Cosmos 2504, 2519 and 2536 models to “test kinetic kill capabilities.”
One of the Cosmos models tested its anti-satellite weapons capability in 2019 “by ejecting an object near a Russian satellite,” it said.
US to station nuclear weapons in UK to counter threat from Russia
US to deploy nuclear weapons in Britain for first time in 15 years to combat Russian threat - The Telegraph
The warheads will be stationed at RAF Lakenheath as the threat from Russia grows, Pentagon documents show.The B61 Mod 12 guided thermonuclear bombs with a yield of up to 50 kilotons can also be used by F-35 fighters“The United States removed nuclear weapons from Great Britain in 2008, believing that the Cold War threat from Moscow had diminished”, says the material.