>>63916792You went a bit too fat there - they are not trying to actually build one to use it, it's to show off that they have the bigger toys. Which is a win in their world.
It's somewhat similar to their domestic tank and fighter programs - they are less about domestically produced tanks and fighters, they are about being able to say that they have a domestic tank/fighter program.
As we've seen recently, if it comes to real fighting that is done by both sides with proven weapons they bought somewhere else. Which is convenient for the face saving aspects of their cultures: If they lose (with) them it was because they had to use inferior weapons made by other people, if they win with them it shows their (as a people, not the weapons) superiority.
Concepts like "a tool is as useful as the user is skilled in its use" are completely foreign to them. Which paradoxically prevents them from seeing those tools as just tools.