A game-changer in new Cold War
Godfree Roberts
February 2, 2025
Matching actions to rhetoric has never been an American strength. After never winning a war American 'defense' clapped out 40 years ago. It's a practical joke: war practically bankrupted the country and its weapons are antique jokes. Like arquebuses and battleships.
America can neither build mundane armaments like fighter jets and navy ships, nor afford them.
It cannot borrow ten billion ($10,000,000,000) every day forever, just to meet the interest payments on its $38 trillion debt while also borrowing a further $3 trillion annually–just to keep the economy growing 2% pa. And even if it could afford them, Uncle Shmuel will never successfully test one.
After $78 billion and 19 years, the US has never successfully tested even one, While Russia and China have thousands of them in inventory and even the DPRK has them. (Iran should have them next year). Further down the food chain, the USAF's one-hundred thirty-third F-35 ("flying bathtub") fighter fell out of the sky yesterday, despite receiving nine hours of maintenance after its last 60-minute flight.
In fact, ALL F-35s get nine hours maintenance for every hour in the air–even though the must fly slowly. Two minutes supercruising–flying supersonic without afterburner–which Russian and Chinese fighters routinely do, consumes its entire fuel load AND strips off its stealth coating. But, since we're hypothesizing, assume the F-35 could stay aloft and it could spot an enemy fighter, its pilot would have to bail out immediately.
The F-35's A2A missiles have half the range of the Russian/Chinese
missiles, which also have twice the hitting power of the F-35's bottle rockets.
That's because Sino-Russian missiles are powered by N15B, a high-energy, heterogeneous propellant, and their warheads are of CL-20, world's deadliest subnuclear explosive.
The US tried to manufacture but, due to the extreme instability of its chemical components, they blew their asses off.
P.S. Whatever weapon China has, Russia has, and vice-versa. They've been sharing everything since Russia handed over the IP for its legendary Triumf AAAM in 2019. Russia has the equivalent to China's PL-15 A2A missile, for example, which goes twice as far as America's AIM-120, thanks to its novel dual pulse rocket motors and semi-ballistic trajectory. It has one job: home on the massive EM radiation of AWACS and airborne tankers loitering behind battle lines.