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SFAM1A on scored.co
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>while they make a shit-ton of simple weapons they can throw downrange.
You'll get no argument from me there. It's completely retarded to be throwing *all* our military budget into "stealth fighters" and nothing into the revamping of the F-18. Or the B-52. Hell, they even want to retire the A-10 within 5 or so years now to be replaced by the F-35. Worst decision the military's made recently, and that's saying something.
> To make a first world military, a country must have the things (reliable infrastructure, advanced machining capabilities, euro/asian workers, euro/asian soldiers) which make it a first world country.
Not necessarily. You can just throw as much of your national budget towards the military as possible while your people live a peasant subsistence lifestyle in a stagnant, crummy economy. Soviet russia was the greatest example of this and they haven't exactly improved by leaps and bounds since the soviet union fell.
You'll get no argument from me there. It's completely retarded to be throwing *all* our military budget into "stealth fighters" and nothing into the revamping of the F-18. Or the B-52. Hell, they even want to retire the A-10 within 5 or so years now to be replaced by the F-35. Worst decision the military's made recently, and that's saying something.
> To make a first world military, a country must have the things (reliable infrastructure, advanced machining capabilities, euro/asian workers, euro/asian soldiers) which make it a first world country.
Not necessarily. You can just throw as much of your national budget towards the military as possible while your people live a peasant subsistence lifestyle in a stagnant, crummy economy. Soviet russia was the greatest example of this and they haven't exactly improved by leaps and bounds since the soviet union fell.