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DarkCurrent on February 22, 2013 at 3:00 PM

With that said the Chinese just managed to land some aircraft on their one and only Russian relic of an aircraft carrier. That is only what, 70-80 years since the U.S. did it.

So I guess they are catching up. I mean the best the Chinese can do is equality because they have to steal U.S. and Russian designs. Here is hoping the Chinese steal plans for the Littoral Combat Ship and build lots of them.

For example has anyone noticed what a debacle the F-35 has become? If you don’t know just google it now. This is not surprising at all either. It was sold as a replacement for the Harrier, the F-16, the Warthog, the F-18 and more. I super airplane that could do everything for everyone and all of our allies as well. Maybe I should sale some magic beans to the military…I am sure I can at least get millions…if not billions.

You don’t have to have the best everything, just the best things that actually matter on a modern battlefield against someone like China, and produce lot of them. We are turning our military into what the German military was in WWII. The Germans built super gliders that were useless…massive tanks that ate fuel, did not work in mud, plus broke down a lot…super duper aircraft that were so super duper they made less then ten of because they were too dam complex to build in mass production, BUT they did build a fighter jet that Hitler kept trying to turn into a bomber, and oh yes never figured out how to build a four engine bomber. The Germans seemed to turn all their projects in giant expensive science experiments.

Right now we have the F-22 (which has its own problems) as our prime air superiority fighter which is in limited amounts (because Obama cut it) and a bunch of cold war designs. That is because the F-35, that was supposed to be cheaper then the F-22 and fill out the numbers like the F-16 did for the F-15, is now an expensive mess!

You can have all the expensive super Marine landing craft and super heavy Bradley replacement (in fact it so heavy it weighs more than the Abrams tank itself!) you want, but if you don’t have air superiority it means nothing. We need to focus on what we spend our money on and make sure we get that right.

800K will get furlowed. So what? 20 times that amount have totally lost their jobs in the past 5 years. Contractors can eat Rice-a-roni as well as anybody else.