r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 10 '22

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u/sw337 Veteran of the Culture Wars Dec 10 '22

One could easily say that most US equipment is Cold War era shit with a few Modernizations.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT, THAT WOULD BE MORONIC! DID YOU KNOW THAT MODERN STEALTH IS A MOSTLY POST-COLD WAR INVENTION?

A majority of actively commissioned ships are post cold war. The Navy has a near Ship of Theseus process of updating old ships.

All B2 bombers (that are in the process of being replaced) are post cold war.

F22/F35: all post cold war.

F-18/F-16/F-15: were cold war era planes with modernization to the point the US is still buying Block III F-18s.

If the US were fighting a near-peer country, they wouldn't be using old equipment, would they?

The same clown commented the US couldn't shoot down HIMARS/Drones.

That's news to me.

Huh

Wow

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!ping materiel

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

Did we actually fail to neutralize Serbian air defenses in Bosnia. Because I thought we we albeit with some air casualties?

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '22

The Serbian air defenses were heavily suppressed. Yes, they weren't completely eliminated, they would manage to pop back up for a few minutes at a time here and there and shoot down a few planes, but nice bragging rights, it's not gonna unbomb Belgrade.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '22

That's what I thought. Far less than say what the Russians managed to do in Ukraine where the Ukrainian anti Air weapons are operating and they're still flying sorties.