Which is what they did anyway. However they are keeping the airplanes which were already built. Since the numbers are reduced the expenses or maintaining the planes per plane are much higher, but you never know what you will encounter next in the battlefield.
Japan came to collect in the 1980s and China is doing the same. You can always take the chance to destroy more unnecessary rival US companies or buy knowledge you do not have.
Nah. The thing is you make the airplane to US Navy specs then produce it for the USAF. This is why the F-4 worked so well. The US Navy has more stringent requirements. With the F-111 it was a mess. They decided to make the USAF version first and it result in an airplane eventually neither of the services wanted.
Yeah and Iran got a brand spanking new low observable drone dropped down on top of their hats. Probably has been completely pulled apart and inventoried by now.
The Chinese haven't even got the proper engines or the tail section working in order. The Russians IMO are further ahead with their design and their industry has more of a tradition in developing all types of indigenous fighter aircraft systems however the Chinese airplane is more of a fighter-bomber or long range interceptor/reconnaissance platform than a fighter. The mainline Chinese fighters are the J-10 mass produced fighter and the J-11 which is a Su-27 with lots of upgrades to the electronics, weapon systems, and whatever.
The F-22 has been fighting problems since like forever. The only other aircraft in the US with as many development problems right now is probably the V-22 Osprey. That is not in use anywhere either. Heck the US has had to dust off their Chinooks and the Navy is reconsidering their Jolly Green Giants because the Osprey... sucks. It was an interesting idea in theory but in practice it is crap.
The F-22 was designed to defend against Warsow Pact forces. The thing is the Russians, and Chinese will develop similar weapons after the F-22 was designed so they will have the hindsight of being able to fix some of those issues or try doing things differently. Try comparing the Su-27 to an F-15 and you can see the difference a decade in fighter design can cause.
The F-22 is not a decent deep strike platform. It does not have the range of the F-111 which was an airplane made decades before. It probably has less range than some versions of the F-15. The Su-27 based airplanes all have more range because Russia is a large state which requires the use of such airplanes. If you are doing power projection in a regional level you will need those airplanes. Let alone if you want to go further than that. Rather than looking at Asia the US should be taking better care of its own backyard in South America. That is where the real problems may come from. Well that and the constant technology drain to Asia which will eventually cause the downfall of the US Empire sooner or later. If the US does not keep its hold over South America it will even cease to be a regional power let alone a global one.
In the case of NK you do not need to go across the border IIRC 300 km range is enough. You probably can hit all of NK if you fly near the NK/SK border. Besides they do not have solid rockets with a range worth a damn. So the range really would be those 600 km. Against China or Russia of course it wouldn't work. They have proper solid rocket ICBMs.
Of course the whole ABL system is of questionable economic value but this is nearly always the case for 1st generation systems. The V-2s were also too expensive, didn't hit anything worth a damn, and if they did had an explosive payload that was too small. Had they used the resources used to manufacture V-2s to buy more Fw-190s or whatever it would have made more economic sense in the short term. However had they perfected the A-10 intercontinental rocket with an actual nuclear bomb as a payload then they could have been able to force a cease-fire with the US and stop Allied bombing runs.
Once lasers are included as standard equipment in mainline fighters people will have a different opinion and that is only a matter of time. Tanks already use lasers even if it is just for dazzling the optics of the other tanks or guided munitions (e.g. Russian Shtora), so it is a question of time until jet fighters do the same instead of using flares. So the most likely application at first will be point defense, then as laser efficiency and power generation in combat units increase it will be used to fight enemy units as well. The military wants units in the MW range (which is what COIL can do in a cumbersome way) but 100 kW range electric powered lasers are already available. Given recent advances in dye lasers and fibre lasers eventually the MW range will be achieved. Then you only need to somehow convert output from the engine turbines into enough electricity to feed the lasers. Most likely the first applications will be in naval or land units which are less weight sensitive. Then aerial applications will follow.
The interesting thing is that the Roman Republic was adamantly opposed against all forms of monarchy or dynastic rule in the beggining. They used something similar to the Spartan way of government (the system with two elected "kings", where one stays home while the other fights abroad) until Augustus became emperor.
There are satellites orbiting the Earth specifically to detect ballistic missile launches. It is pretty easy to know when one is launched. You would think something flying at over Mach 10 with a massive exhaust plume would be clearly distinguishable from the rest of the objects moving around the surface of the Earth. Computers have faster reflexes than people have so it is possible to hit them in time, if you launch the response in time, with sufficient speed, precision, and power. Lasers can hit the target at the speed of light and will eventually be the next generation anti-air technology regardless of how cumbersome they may seem now. ABL used a COIL laser which is old technology dating from the Reagan administration or even before that. The new technology in ABL consisted in the use of adaptive optics to reduce beam dispersion in the atmosphere enabling a longer range (which is actually useable) and better guidance. In due time lasers may even negate air supremacy and give back military superiority to land forces, or push the air forces closer to orbit.
Britain eventually did stop the bomber runs with air supremacy. Nearer the end of the war you would be hard pressed to find a bomber which could fly safely over Britain given early warning radar, slow bombers, and ludicrous German fighter cover. They only "bombed" then with V-1's and V-2's which had low accuracy for hitting targets. Eventually even the V-1 could be intercepted by Gloster Meteor jet fighters. To stop the V-2 missiles would require the development of modern SAM technology slaved to radar. There already was artillery slaved to radar but it lacked range to provide proper cover for large areas.
The conversation was about open source software licenses and Tivoisation.
It had nothing to do with hardware patents. Regarding Motorola they have a lot more patents than just transmission hardware patents. Apple always does the same shit. They pick up a lot of previously researched projects from universities, private labs, whatever, put them in a unified product, and then sue everyone because they "did it first". Just like the lawsuits regarding WIMP user interfaces they did against Microsoft in the 1980s. Of course other people had done WIMP user interfaces either before or at the same time, Xerox, MIT Athena Project (X Window System), Commodore, etc. They are a bunch of pathetic whiners and losers who can't stand any competition whatsoever.
All the recently developed systems by China, Russia and France are MIRV capable even if they have no MIRV warheads installed. Since the US abandoned the ABM treaty other countries also slackened their adherence to treaties reducing the number of warheads since a viable ABM system would reduce the deterrence potential of their missiles.
Their nuclear subs are a piece of crap. Worse than what the UK and France have let alone the US. Russian nuclear sub technology is also like 3 generations ahead. The acoustic signature is supposedly terrible, still uses propellers rather than pump-jet propulsion, old reactors, obviously bad hydrodynamics, it is probably the achilles heel of their naval R&D.
It seems they are kind of oblivious to the need for SSN. Their main submarine developments have been conventional subs with an AIP system of their own design. Probably going for quantity over quality. Of course none of these can fire a single ballistic missile. Probably too much concerned with carriers at the moment. AFAIK they do not have any recent powerplants either.
The main issue with the F-22 is range. The Chinese J-20 design in particular has the potential to be a long range interceptor or bomber. Basically it fills a similar position to the proposed FB-22 program. The Chinese already have the J-10 fighter-bomber for controlling their own airspace but their bomber fleet is old and composed of H-6 bombers. This is why they went with such a design I guess. It also demonstrates a will to project their own airpower outside their borders rather than limiting themselves to protecting their own airspace as they did in the past.
NK would beef up their air force with what? They have no major resources to speak of. The only nation willing to sell them advanced aircraft would be either China or Russia. Russia is kind of doubtful (unless NK paid a lot).
Patriot was originally designed as defense against aircraft not ballistic missiles which fly at much higher speeds. The whole effort was more a gesture of goodwill than something that would actually work. Arleigh Burke frigates have the Standard Missile which is supposedly ABM capable. The Israelis developed their Arrow missile defense system which is an actual ABM capable system to begin with. The US has had ABM for decades but it is restricted in numbers and locations by treaty. They couldn't just move an entire system just to shield Israel.
I doubt the Chinese will keep this policy once their latest generation solid MIRV ICBMs are fully developed. Doing it with DF-5 missiles was just too expensive. But with the newer missiles and their current economic environment it is not.
Big whoop. The US has also shot down a satellite with a Standard Missile from an Aegis cruiser. Then there was that canned project for an ASAT to be launched from an F-15. Other nuclear weapon owing countries have conducted similar tests or started development on similar weapons.
The problem with lasers in space is power or refueling. The ABL IIRC uses COIL so it needs to be refueled after each shot. Even if you use a type of laser which only requires electricity as a power source you would require nothing less than a nuclear reactor to power the thing.
The vast majority of people in the US are obese. Hardly surprising the type 2 patients are as well. I know plenty of non-fat people with type-2 diabetes. Over a dozen actually. Where are the insulin aerosol spray or the laser glucose meters big pharma promised years ago? Nowhere of course. The laser glucose meters would stop their current razor-blade model of selling blood test-strips, while the aerosol spray would mean large investments into plants they do not want to build and paying patents they prefer to let expire.
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Which is what they did anyway. However they are keeping the airplanes which were already built. Since the numbers are reduced the expenses or maintaining the planes per plane are much higher, but you never know what you will encounter next in the battlefield.
Japan came to collect in the 1980s and China is doing the same. You can always take the chance to destroy more unnecessary rival US companies or buy knowledge you do not have.
Nah. The thing is you make the airplane to US Navy specs then produce it for the USAF. This is why the F-4 worked so well. The US Navy has more stringent requirements. With the F-111 it was a mess. They decided to make the USAF version first and it result in an airplane eventually neither of the services wanted.
Yeah and Iran got a brand spanking new low observable drone dropped down on top of their hats. Probably has been completely pulled apart and inventoried by now.
Which is what may happen anyway.
The F-22 has been fighting problems since like forever. The only other aircraft in the US with as many development problems right now is probably the V-22 Osprey. That is not in use anywhere either. Heck the US has had to dust off their Chinooks and the Navy is reconsidering their Jolly Green Giants because the Osprey... sucks. It was an interesting idea in theory but in practice it is crap.
The F-22 was designed to defend against Warsow Pact forces. The thing is the Russians, and Chinese will develop similar weapons after the F-22 was designed so they will have the hindsight of being able to fix some of those issues or try doing things differently. Try comparing the Su-27 to an F-15 and you can see the difference a decade in fighter design can cause.
The F-22 is not a decent deep strike platform. It does not have the range of the F-111 which was an airplane made decades before. It probably has less range than some versions of the F-15. The Su-27 based airplanes all have more range because Russia is a large state which requires the use of such airplanes. If you are doing power projection in a regional level you will need those airplanes. Let alone if you want to go further than that. Rather than looking at Asia the US should be taking better care of its own backyard in South America. That is where the real problems may come from. Well that and the constant technology drain to Asia which will eventually cause the downfall of the US Empire sooner or later. If the US does not keep its hold over South America it will even cease to be a regional power let alone a global one.
Of course the whole ABL system is of questionable economic value but this is nearly always the case for 1st generation systems. The V-2s were also too expensive, didn't hit anything worth a damn, and if they did had an explosive payload that was too small. Had they used the resources used to manufacture V-2s to buy more Fw-190s or whatever it would have made more economic sense in the short term. However had they perfected the A-10 intercontinental rocket with an actual nuclear bomb as a payload then they could have been able to force a cease-fire with the US and stop Allied bombing runs.
Once lasers are included as standard equipment in mainline fighters people will have a different opinion and that is only a matter of time. Tanks already use lasers even if it is just for dazzling the optics of the other tanks or guided munitions (e.g. Russian Shtora), so it is a question of time until jet fighters do the same instead of using flares. So the most likely application at first will be point defense, then as laser efficiency and power generation in combat units increase it will be used to fight enemy units as well. The military wants units in the MW range (which is what COIL can do in a cumbersome way) but 100 kW range electric powered lasers are already available. Given recent advances in dye lasers and fibre lasers eventually the MW range will be achieved. Then you only need to somehow convert output from the engine turbines into enough electricity to feed the lasers. Most likely the first applications will be in naval or land units which are less weight sensitive. Then aerial applications will follow.
plagiarism is not the same as stealing anyway.
I wonder if you read a XIXth century dictionary if the description would be the same.
The interesting thing is that the Roman Republic was adamantly opposed against all forms of monarchy or dynastic rule in the beggining. They used something similar to the Spartan way of government (the system with two elected "kings", where one stays home while the other fights abroad) until Augustus became emperor.
Britain eventually did stop the bomber runs with air supremacy. Nearer the end of the war you would be hard pressed to find a bomber which could fly safely over Britain given early warning radar, slow bombers, and ludicrous German fighter cover. They only "bombed" then with V-1's and V-2's which had low accuracy for hitting targets. Eventually even the V-1 could be intercepted by Gloster Meteor jet fighters. To stop the V-2 missiles would require the development of modern SAM technology slaved to radar. There already was artillery slaved to radar but it lacked range to provide proper cover for large areas.
It had nothing to do with hardware patents. Regarding Motorola they have a lot more patents than just transmission hardware patents. Apple always does the same shit. They pick up a lot of previously researched projects from universities, private labs, whatever, put them in a unified product, and then sue everyone because they "did it first". Just like the lawsuits regarding WIMP user interfaces they did against Microsoft in the 1980s. Of course other people had done WIMP user interfaces either before or at the same time, Xerox, MIT Athena Project (X Window System), Commodore, etc. They are a bunch of pathetic whiners and losers who can't stand any competition whatsoever.
All the recently developed systems by China, Russia and France are MIRV capable even if they have no MIRV warheads installed. Since the US abandoned the ABM treaty other countries also slackened their adherence to treaties reducing the number of warheads since a viable ABM system would reduce the deterrence potential of their missiles.
Their nuclear subs are a piece of crap. Worse than what the UK and France have let alone the US. Russian nuclear sub technology is also like 3 generations ahead. The acoustic signature is supposedly terrible, still uses propellers rather than pump-jet propulsion, old reactors, obviously bad hydrodynamics, it is probably the achilles heel of their naval R&D.
It seems they are kind of oblivious to the need for SSN. Their main submarine developments have been conventional subs with an AIP system of their own design. Probably going for quantity over quality. Of course none of these can fire a single ballistic missile. Probably too much concerned with carriers at the moment. AFAIK they do not have any recent powerplants either.
The main issue with the F-22 is range. The Chinese J-20 design in particular has the potential to be a long range interceptor or bomber. Basically it fills a similar position to the proposed FB-22 program. The Chinese already have the J-10 fighter-bomber for controlling their own airspace but their bomber fleet is old and composed of H-6 bombers. This is why they went with such a design I guess. It also demonstrates a will to project their own airpower outside their borders rather than limiting themselves to protecting their own airspace as they did in the past.
NK would beef up their air force with what? They have no major resources to speak of. The only nation willing to sell them advanced aircraft would be either China or Russia. Russia is kind of doubtful (unless NK paid a lot).
Uh... no Air Supremacy is possible and that is why the US won the recent conflicts militarily with relative ease.
India needs to hit Islamabad and Beijing. That's about it.
Patriot was originally designed as defense against aircraft not ballistic missiles which fly at much higher speeds. The whole effort was more a gesture of goodwill than something that would actually work. Arleigh Burke frigates have the Standard Missile which is supposedly ABM capable. The Israelis developed their Arrow missile defense system which is an actual ABM capable system to begin with. The US has had ABM for decades but it is restricted in numbers and locations by treaty. They couldn't just move an entire system just to shield Israel.
I doubt the Chinese will keep this policy once their latest generation solid MIRV ICBMs are fully developed. Doing it with DF-5 missiles was just too expensive. But with the newer missiles and their current economic environment it is not.
The problem with lasers in space is power or refueling. The ABL IIRC uses COIL so it needs to be refueled after each shot. Even if you use a type of laser which only requires electricity as a power source you would require nothing less than a nuclear reactor to power the thing.
The vast majority of people in the US are obese. Hardly surprising the type 2 patients are as well. I know plenty of non-fat people with type-2 diabetes. Over a dozen actually. Where are the insulin aerosol spray or the laser glucose meters big pharma promised years ago? Nowhere of course. The laser glucose meters would stop their current razor-blade model of selling blood test-strips, while the aerosol spray would mean large investments into plants they do not want to build and paying patents they prefer to let expire.