Very interesting article written by Pentagon guy who was responsible for military orders and innovation.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/empty-arsenal-democracy-michael-brown

In short:

- A Pacific conflict needs 5,000 long-range missiles weekly, but U.S. stockpiles, only in the tens of thousands, would deplete in weeks. Entire US stockpiles of long range missiles contains around 30k missiles, meanwhile Russia alone fired 12k similar missiles only in years 2023-2025. Ukraine aid consumed a year’s 155mm shell production (14,000/month) in weeks, while Russia produces 3M shells yearly.

- U.S. Navy ships (avg. age >20 years) and aircraft are older than China’s. China’s navy (370+ ships) surpasses the U.S.’s 290, with newer vessels. Production capacity of Chinese shipyards are x400 bigger than American ones.

- The U.S. imports one-third of energetics materials, including from China, relying on outdated WWII-era factories. China and Russia use modernized facilities, leveraging U.S. research.

- China leads in affordable drones, while the U.S. struggles to scale commercial tech (e.g., AI, autonomy) for military use

These gaps -low stockpiles, aging assets, foreign reliance, and tech lags - expose U.S. unpreparedness for great-power conflict even against Russia, not to mention China.

A hint useful especially for frontline "staunch allies" of the US of A such as Bolanda xD

Another interesting thing is that 4 yo Huawei smartphone has bigger computing power than F-35. Such cases xD

>>509567779 (OP)
>Very interesting article written by Pentagon guy who was responsible for military orders and innovation.
>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/empty-arsenal-democracy-michael-brown
>In short:
>- A Pacific conflict needs 5,000 long-range missiles weekly, but U.S. stockpiles, only in the tens of thousands, would deplete in weeks. Entire US stockpiles of long range missiles contains around 30k missiles, meanwhile Russia alone fired 12k similar missiles only in years 2023-2025. Ukraine aid consumed a year’s 155mm shell production (14,000/month) in weeks, while Russia produces 3M shells yearly.
>- U.S. Navy ships (avg. age >20 years) and aircraft are older than China’s. China’s navy (370+ ships) surpasses the U.S.’s 290, with newer vessels. Production capacity of Chinese shipyards are x400 bigger than American ones.
>- The U.S. imports one-third of energetics materials, including from China, relying on outdated WWII-era factories. China and Russia use modernized facilities, leveraging U.S. research.
>- China leads in affordable drones, while the U.S. struggles to scale commercial tech (e.g., AI, autonomy) for military use
>These gaps -low stockpiles, aging assets, foreign reliance, and tech lags - expose U.S. unpreparedness for great-power conflict even against Russia, not to mention China.

Yeah, the libertarians always ahead of everybody else were posting here saying as much, especially a week before the Ukraine invasion, which one of them called to the hour.

Then people saying they were mid-level Pentagon/military types started saying the same thing here for a while a year later. There was then a little press coverage.

Now FA takes notice and it's suddenly news.

Zombie commie policies de-industrialized small fabrication, shipbuilding, small arms manufacture and tinkerer culture in the US.

>>509567779 (OP)
All true. But NATO defense spending in the EU just rose to 3.5% of GDP with an additional 1.5% GDP additional spending on defense infrastructure. Theres procurement rumors of Germany ordering 1000 new Leopard 2 MBTs and 2500 additional AFVs. There are multiple 5th generation fighter projects in development both in EU, and in Korea/Japan. The US is developing both PCA and F/A-XX for the AF and Navy respectively, while B-21 and F-47 enter serial production, and as Starlink becomes an unkillable Skynet.

Confrontation with China is far from certain. Meanwhile, Western Defense posture is certainly gearing up to win a mid-2030s conflict either way. It may be more a matter of making the right investments than more investments, especially. The idea that a Navy or even ballistic missiles will be relevant in WW3/Taiwan crisis is very likely flawed. Russias massive Soviet-era land army achieved almost nothing substantial in Ukraine even after 3 years--similarly Iranian defense efforts amounted to little/no deterrence against Israel. Most likely missiles and boats and artillery will not win the coming war--even a billion drones cant project power more 10 or 20km and reach any strategic assets from China to the US or vice versa.

>>509567779 (OP)
>long range missiles contains around 30k missiles, meanwhile Russia alone fired 12k similar missiles only in years 2023-2025.
pointless, we have an enormous amount ready, not the end of the world to produce enough either
>U.S. Navy ships (avg. age >20 years) and aircraft are older than China’s. China’s navy (370+ ships) surpasses the U.S.’s 290, with newer vessels. Production capacity of Chinese shipyards
this is the actual problem
trump also blabbered about muh shipbuilding like it's 1940
one of the cabinet guys visits the merchant marine academy and says it's "muh dilapidated"
don't they understand if they want new naval vessels they need to not treat STEM men like shit
if you go into STEM you're expected to be a dysgenic troll who will sit down and listen to all their DEI holocaust bullshit while doing highly advanced engineering that is lobotomized for the dyke profs
meanwhile girls get instant internships
if you go and be a welder you're expected to put elons bullshit rockets together 80hrs a week on a crunch
none of this makes for shipbuilding but trump thinks muh hardworking when there isn't a long 1940s war to ramp up, or reason to go live like utter shit in some ratcheted east coast house while you listen to molded boomers tell you about how to run a drydock that has been out of commission for 40 years
simple as everything the US gov wants, want real engineering? stop treating men like shit
address circumcision

>>509567779 (OP)
Who knew that buying from your enemies and foreigners is a bad idea. Hooray free market!

American's are retarded, this is known. They moved everything off shore and have relied on kike money power instead of actual power

>>509568748
But tariffs raise prices! Think of the prices!

>>509568250
Military vehicles don't actually need much computing power at all.

Good thing Trump is taking on more debt to give tax cuts to rich kikes

>>509568250
Is that really surprising though? F-35 is like 2 decades old now. When it first came into use we were still using flip phones that could barely browse a web page.

>>509568810
The F-35s strength lies in its sensor fusion, integrating data from radar, infrared, electronic warfare systems, and external sources (satellites, AWACS) to create a real-time battlespace picture. This requires immense computational power to process terabytes of data rapidly. Modern conflicts demand real-time analysis to counter advanced threats such as hypersonic missiles, saturation attacks, stealth technology fe. TR-3 is far not enough for this. AI could enable the F-35 to autonomously manage drone swarms or counter cyberattacks, but this demands far greater processing power than current systems

>>509568570
>Five generations of using welfare as a selective breeding program for retards
>Mass 3rd world immigration, the worse the better (MS-13, Somalis, Haitians, Tren de Arauguas)
>Education designed to make everyone stupid, and waste the most fertile years of the smart, especially women.
>Encourage shortcuts by "Highly qualified" Indians; all have fake degrees/resumes, and are barely qualified to be database janitors. Definitely not qualified to write avionics code for $9/hr. Everyone knows it. But Indians are good at sucking off boomer management and helping companies make good numbers, at least until Boeings start falling out of the sky, so invasion continues.
>Huge barriers to White males in getting education, white collar jobs, etc.
Boo hoo hoo why are are Americans too stupid to build the weapons we need to use against the enemies of the Jews?

>>509569309
>Culture glorifies niggerdom in all its insidious forms
>BM/WF everywhere
>George Floyd made a saint, BLM signs everywhere
>Nigger worship is state enforced religion
>White woman are insufferable
>What Timmy gon do?
Timmy is going to watch the world burn.
The funny thing is he doesn't even have to start the fire, all he has to do is walk away.

America needs some sort of event that will reinvigorate manufacturing and create an excuse to build more ships. I don't think this has ever happened before.

>>509568623
>>509568748
This too.
Ironically it was the Jews (starting with Kissinger) who encouraged selling out to China because they were grooming China to be the next host, but Xi out-Jewed them, and now there is a lot of kvetching.

>>509567779 (OP)
Bump

>>509567779 (OP)
lol pure cope. The USA is 60% crippled with obesity, diabetes, arthritis, etc. include the fact that whites are trash and can barely color inside the lines. Usa still has something of a brand name among retard colonial slaves like Mexico, Japan, and Korea, but USA is deporting them and Japan and Korea’s population is dropping like a fat mayoroach jumping off the high board into the swimming pool. Mayo filth should admit it’s over, but their kike masters won’t let them so it’ll be like that fat crippled fuck limping around until he dies of a heart attack. At least we will have a good laugh as the fat mayo roach falls and hits his microballs repeatedly.

>>509567779 (OP)
Too bad his Jew Masters needed to get rid of white men. He could have had his mighty military. Looks like it will be eternal cope for the Post White West.

>>509570164
This.

>>509570405
LMAO at this seething chinksect rat.

TCD

Neoliberal crapitalism never allow reindustrialization in the west, because industry in democratic societies (even pseudo-democracies) is a breeding ground for trades unions, which they hate. They love manufacturing to be done under autocratic governments where unions cannot form.
The same reason why we are reliant on foreign oil from backwards theocracies, and we leave the centuries worth of domestic coal reserves untouched.

>>509570651
(((Neo-liberalism))) and it's consequences have done more damage to the west than the boogeyman of communist subversion ever could.

>>509568867
Zion Donnie also just killed the navy's new 6th gen fighter (the one that would have been used in a war with chinka).

He's a total fuckup. Controlled opposition shill.

>>509570164
China is playing its role, buying US debt and shoring up the value of the USD, allowing the US gov to run gigantic deficits. They were using Japan for exactly the same thing, before it shit the bed.

>>509570405
You chinks are only not thirdworld because the west basically handed you all of our technology and industry on a platter thanks to kike subversion.

>>509569576
>Just let it all go to shit, goy.

>Don't fight back, goy.

Fuck off shill.

>>509567779 (OP)
Maybe if you savages hadn't dropped them all on babies in Gaza you'd have some bombs left.

>>509570770
Communists subsidised and helped spread all the cancer though. They won eventually

>>509568748
Kikes control Australia, too.

Same with Europe.

We're all living under ZOG here in the west, no need to divide and conquer ourselves when we have a common enemy.

>>509568511
russia killed all ukrainian men and now the front line is finally fully collapsing hence trump pulling out. usa has no industrial base. only actual israeli air strikes were in tehran and bandar abbas both of which are close to the coast. there is no evidence of israeli planes entering western iran, just like in oct 2024 exchange they got locked on to by s400s and pulled back. iran still has most of its air defense and is in no rush to get more as its constitution prohibits taking such aid like ew and integrated air defense from russia/china if it diminishes its own sovereignty. iran can build all of it itself, from chink/rus designs if need be. iran has depth of defense, israel/usa manufacturing base has no depth, there are no serious moves to increase usa/eu defense manufacturing, its all just stealing westerners money. there is no evidence of b2s dropping 30k lb. bombs on fordow etc. as analysis years before said it was impenetrable to them so why would trump expose them as not being able to do the job, and why would he use 1/3-1/2 of them all too? china and russia and iran already won, i kneel, u should too, they already won genetically ie. west genz z/alpha are already majority nonwhite

>>509568570
>address circumcision
American revolutionist, 2025.

>>509568511
You cannot rely on just the MIC. In a total war, China would commander and repurpose all industry to arms and supply production, like we did in WWII.
A service economy cannot do the same, the offices and malls can’t produce anything.

>>509567779 (OP)
>military with the biggest budget on the planet demands even more money

How about NO. These faggots already dont get audited. How are they spending that money if we have nothing to show for it? What we need to do is start investigating and punishing anyone fleeing the taxpayers with inflated costs, no bid contracts and shady backroom deals.

>>509571563
>fleeing
Fleecing

>>509567779 (OP)
>Production capacity of Chinese shipyards are x400 bigger than American ones.
It's the same with maintenance and repair capacity. Any damaged American ship is de facto out of the war, because there is no excess drydock capacity to speak of.

>>509571375
>Jewish ultra-capitalism was spread by communists.

Why are cuckservative boomers so insanely fucking stupid? They are so brainwashed to hate the communist jew that they rapidly ignore and even defend the capitalist jew.

>>509571669
They knew runaway capitalism would be the end, while in the meantime they funded and agitated everything from civil rights, gay rights, feminism all the way up to today’s critical race theory, BLM etc etc even China are helping spread white guilt and DEI abroad

>>509571563
You are partially correct about this. Stamping down on corruption is nessisary, but the US military budget is still proportionately smaller than it was during the coldwar by far. And to make matters worse, we're up against a far more dangerous adversary than the USSR ever was.

>>509567779 (OP)
Archive it next time nigger
https://archive.is/d9Nod

>>509571962
>muh sterling silver

That’s all you white mayo filth can do is print money. Your next print will be the mark of the beast, and you WILL take it, whether for israel or for your family doesn’t matter. You retards will make up your own excuses.

>>509572169
Thanks.

>>509570405
>>509572211
>The chink shill came back with a different IP address but the same memeflag.

LOL. You played yourself, yellow-nigger.

Even in 2023 american wargames had USA always losing a war in the pacific

>>509572397
>Even in 2023 american wargames had USA always losing a war in the pacific

No they dont/didn't. They mostly say that the US would win but at great cost.

>>509572214
Why do many Anons or newfags refuse to do it? Are they in a rush, do not know of it? want to harvest & track ip?

>>509572575
Zoomer newfags are lazy and selfish. They don't even have the capacity to hate media companies enough to deny them traffic.

Boomer newfag election tourists are too fucking stupid/tech illiterate.

>>509568511
>But NATO defense spending in the EU just rose to 3.5% of GDP with an additional 1.5% GDP additional spending on defense infrastructure.
Is this the same promise to raise spending that Melonia counted that bridge under in Italy? I'll believe this shit when I see it. I don't think any country in the EU can afford to actually do this.

>>509570164
Aiight I know this is a long shot, but can anyone recommend good books about the Kissinger trip to china and more specifically the businesses that were the first to move/outsource there?
Most stuff I can find is retardedly generalized and doesn’t get into specifics

miss me yet?

>>509572943
I second this.

>>509572482
Nope it was total defeat

>>509572102
>we're up against a far more dangerous adversary than the USSR ever was.
who would that be? surely you dont mean chinkistan

>>509567779 (OP)
tldr:
>1 trillion dollars per year are not enough for the defense contractors, you have to pay us more
t. defense contractor lobbyist

>>509573213
Chinks are far more dangerous than the USSR, yes.

Underestimating your enemy is foolish.

>>509573258
We're entering a new coldwar with the chinks and our defense spending is still at peace dividend levels, so yes, 1 trillion is not enough.

Another resource USA struggles with is a population who dont want to help the elite win any more big paydays

>>509572931
Most euro nations are broke, not enough money. Many states here spend more on migrant accommodation/integration (free shit) than other departments such as health, military, infrastructure. The 5% of gdp is smoke & mirrors trying to soothe trump ego so no more tariffs or him directly criticising eu leaders. Most eu leadership is scared to show how blatant the power dynamic are to European citizens & who really calls the shots. Many here think they do not live under occupation of foreign military who are beholden to Israel. Imagine modern German (massive ziocucks) military bases all over Europe rather than Yankee one

>>509573293
okeydokey

>>509567779 (OP)
Thought we said rods from god are the replacement for all arsenal. Why even have a boat when you can drop a non nuke projectile from space ?

>>509573903
???
Who the fuck said that?

>>509573903
About 80% of global trade by volume and 70% by value is transported by sea. Thats why everybody wants to control it.

>>509568250
>computer has more computing power than a plane
imagine my shock, did you know that huawei smartphones cannot exceed the sound barrier and fire air to air missiles?

>>509574151
Read this: >>509569202

Moreover current Block 4 upgrade becomes problematic because of too low computing power of F-35.

>>509572482
No win. Crippling defeat. Face it, the US don't have the resources to maintain a naval supremacy against China. If they directly challenge China, they lose everything. Trump understood that, his initial plans to withdraw from Europe and focus on imperial expanion on the American continent instead were the reaction to it.

>>509573903
Kiddo, you can't even reach space without Russian help.

>>509573903
rods from god are a meme
>>509574235
what are you basing any of this on?

>>509570630
China is much better than the US because they don't circumcise

>>509574423
This article discusses Block 4 modernization program delays (extended to 2029) and cost increases partly due to TR-3 problems.

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/04/f-35-modernization-programs-costs-schedule-keeps-growing-gao/

>>509569202
>or counter cyberattacks
AI wrote this post

>>509574843
One of main reasons of Block 4 upgrade is adding new anti-cyberattack abilities making fast live analysis and response to hacking attempts possible.

>>509574705
But they're chinks

>>509574990
Stop replying with AI posts.
This isnt a windows pc connected to the internet, nobody is launching cyber attacks against L12

Send anyone that says we need to build up for a future conflict into the front lines right now imo.
Maybe then they'll grow a braincell and realize diplomacy and cooperation is the only solution.

>>509575055
You should educate yourself

https://regtechtimes.com/f-35-technology-turns-into-a-double-edged-sword/

>>509568251
>lolbertarians
lmfuckingao
>non existent american commies deindustrialized america by glorifying the pursuit of greed and letting porkies transfer all their productive assets to cheap slave labor china rather than paying fair wages to their countrymen
all real in your empty head

>>509568511
>le magic hairless ape paper shenanigans
hahaha that's sure to reverse deindustrialization, especially when you're not even addressing its causes
>>509571425
>the front line is finally fully collapsing
all trve in lefttr00n bunker tranny world

>>509575419
Anyone have that Pic which shows that literally all proponents of libertarianism except Adam Smith are/were kikes?

A financial power like the US could never beat an industrial power like China in a war