Sell my ass to China. Like, absolutely spread my cheek so the CCP can plow all the natural and human resources of my country in exchange for military hardware and training.

The thing is, the equipment and military is secondary. What I actually want is to tie myself diplomatically to the CCP. And hopefully the economic impact and good diplomatic relationship will push the Chinese government to intervene or at least indirectly support my country in case of war.

Worst case scenario I can be a PITA to invade. Best case scenario, Chinese trade sanctions, and military support force the invader to back off.

I’m choosing China over anyone else because of the potential impact of trade sanctions make them the best candidate. France or USA are also good options

It doesn’t because you run out of security updates after 5 to 6 years. Which I hate. But nowadays switching to android alternatives is an option once a phone is no longer supported.

Or Apple which is surprisingly good in that department, my sister’s iphone 11 is still receiving updates.

So basically it’s the opposite of what the navy need. The navy has needed a cheaper more numerous hull to complement the Burke class. Something that they have failed with the LCS program and the recently canceled Constellation.

The Trump class is so large they might have to be built into the same dockyard as carriers. I don’t know if Bath iron works can accommodate ships that large. So it would have to be Newport News Shipbuilding or Ingalls Shipbuilding, both of which are already very busy.

It also means that the dockyard for smaller ships still don’t have any work and some of them could eventually shutdown from bankruptcy, further reducing the number of dockyard and production facilities for the navy.

Edit: I am also going to add, since we have the design for the FF(X) ship that is going to replace the cancelled Constellation class. The FF(X) if it’s built as planned is significantly worse than Constellation and will not fill the role that the navy needs. But it’s probably a nice bit of money for Ingalls Industries.

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Ah yes. This surely will have no long term consequences.

Yeah except right now the biggest issue the Bundeswehr faces is equipment and troop readiness. A report came around 2022 and made noise. After a short exercise 18 modern Puma IVF had been out of action for lack of spare parts on relatively minor issues. And that was on the 10th Panzer division which was earmarked for deployment in Lithuania, not a low priority unit.

More bodies are nice for an army. But those come after the infrastructure has been fixed for what already exist

The cruiser gap as an example. Was never real, it only existed because of the US Navy classification system of time.

The US Navy would call ships frigate or destroyer leader when they had the size and capabilities of a cruiser in the Soviet navy. The 1975 Ship reclassification cleared it up and also made organization much easier than the dozens of confusing hull designation.

That’s a chicken or the egg situation isn’t it?

You need money to feed someone, to get a roof, for healthcare. Wouldn’t anyone growing up their entire life in this system be reasonably expected to be obsessed with money? Thus perpetuating the system and the issue.

If you have an article or maybe remember more details about that story?

The closest I could find is this.

Ukraine doesn’t really operate western helicopter in general so the story may have been about something else. We have reports of the Russian using captured American armor vehicles. So no kill switch in those.

I mean, something like Lynx is probably as private as you get. Might be lacking a few features like, anything graphical. Still relatively usable imo

Well then they are fucked. Maybe France’s Snecma is an option and the Japanese also have engines. Pretty much everything else is Licensed copy of American engine or Chinese/Russian which are obvious no.

I think turkey was looking into making their own jet engines. But Erdogan Turkey is about as good of an option as trump USA.

Okay so just to clarify what the software lockdown on F-35 means is that other country except the USA aren’t allowed to create update to the software. Exception for Israel and maybe the UK (don’t quote me) are allowed to modify the software themselves.

It doesn’t mean a instant kill switch. But it does mean that if the USA decides to block someone from update it’s much harder for a country to make their own update.

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No. But they aren’t refusing to sell it. They just don’t have it. And are under various sanctions by the US, EU and most south American countries over human rights abuse so they probably couldn’t sell oil anyway.

Actually it’s kinda ironic that Venezuela is under sanctions for human rights abuse but not the Gulf states.

Oh and I wasn’t actually trying to go anywhere with my comment but I do realize how it sounds now. But I am not in favor of invading anyone

I mean to be fair they just don’t have the infrastructure to extract it anymore. Economic sanctions since the Obama years have mean that the equipment to extract crude has become hard to maintain.

Except that it’s gambling. The jobs trigger my hyper focus, sure I’ll do in a week a project meant for a month. But inversely, I can be incapable of even thinking about a task and make no progress for weeks.

I mean, meds have made it better.

South African authorities said 23 of the Palestinians had traveled onwards to other countries, without naming those countries, but 130 remained and were allowed in after intervention from South Africa’s Ministry of Home Affairs and an offer by an NGO called Gift of the Givers to accommodate them.

“Even though they do not have the necessary documents and papers, these are people from a strife-torn, a war-torn country, and out of compassion, out of empathy, we must receive them and be able to deal with the situation that they are facing,” Ramaphosa said.

Sure I agree with that. It’s a big part of why the USSR failed bloated military spending while the people struggle to eat. Most authoritarian government for that matter.

Here, tho, I am speaking through the lens of the country’s own ambition. The UK want to play big boy super power with two carriers. Okay. Then if that’s the case not allocating enough budget to buy 2 carriers worth of aircraft means that :

1. They wasted billions making a 2nd carrier for nothing.
2. They don’t have the budget for their ambitions.

But I was not even arguing at any point in here to raise military budgets. I’m brainstorming who could need a F-35B alternative.

Okay I figured a fix that more or less work for me. I work in a service company. Other companies need help on a project for a few months. I get sent there, help get the project done and then I am sent to a new project

Yeah sure. So we’ll just pretend that former Nazy general didn’t write the history of the eastern front. In glorious self aggrandizing details that suspiciously put all the blame for the atrocities on SS and any mistake on Hitler.