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Puss in Boots

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Temstar said:
A country with healthy MIC shouldn't be too affected by losing 4 radar experts. PLA once had a KJ-200 prototype going down taking out all 40 people onboard (5 crew + 35 technicians running radar test) and the program managed to recover from the loss.

My dad kept telling me about it because one of those 35 was his class mate at university, they did computer science together.
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Everyone wants to make big money in the military-industrial complex, but how many people will actually be willing to dedicate themselves to learning and researching technology? I believe that a developed military-industrial complex is not particularly beneficial, and may even be detrimental, to the training of top experts!
The United States' military development over the past two decades has been lackluster, largely due to the loss of its technical experts. This contrasts sharply with the situation in China. I don't want to exaggerate the potential impact of this incident, but it is clearly a mistake to optimistically believe that the United States can easily escape its current predicament.
 
Lethe

Lethe

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DDG-51 Flight III production is contracted out to DDG-150 which, per USN's FY 2027 budget documents
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, is anticipated to be delivered in 2040. This implies that Burkes will remain in service into the 2070s, for an overall service life for the type of at least eighty years and probably longer, given that a further production contract seems likely.

Eighty years is the gap between the American Civil War and World War II. Or between World War II and the present day. A family lineage that was equally committed to both national service and procreation from a young age could see five generations serve on Burkes.

Food for thought.
 
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zyklon

zyklon

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Lethe said:
Eighty years is the gap between the American Civil War and World War II. Or between World War II and the present day. A family lineage that was equally committed to both national service and procreation from a young age could see five generations serve on Burkes.
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Many such cases.

The B-52 — among the most iconic of Americana defense tech — is now expected to serve into the 2050s thanks to
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for a fleet of ~76 legacy bombers originally manufactured in the early 1960s. That translates to ~$639 million per upgraded airframe.

Then there's the KC-135 — another Boeing technological marvel of the 1950s — which will serve well into her 80s, if not retire at ~100 years old too thanks to the
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lych470

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Temstar said:
A country with healthy MIC shouldn't be too affected by losing 4 radar experts. PLA once had a KJ-200 prototype going down taking out all 40 people onboard (5 crew + 35 technicians running radar test) and the program managed to recover from the loss.

My dad kept telling me about it because one of those 35 was his class mate at university, they did computer science together.
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I'm not sure if we can classify US MIC as 'healthy' - they seem like a parasitic lot, more interested in extracting maximum value from contracts rather than deliverying concrete capabilities.
 
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