“People think, increasingly it appears, that we shouldn’t be doing this. Well, let me start by saying we haven’t lost a single American in this war,” McConnell said. “Most of the money that we spend related to Ukraine is actually spent in the US, replenishing weapons, more modern weapons. So it’s actually employing people here and improving our own military for what may lie ahead.”

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4085063

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

the Russia air-defense systems have proven very effective, which changes the game

Due to modernization in the course of the current war, and against weapons used in it, specifically those Turkish drones and the small copters everybody uses now in every conflict.

I'm not sure how good they'd be against something launched from F-35.

has a great deal of limitations, not the least of which is how expensive and stretched it’s logistical requirements are

However I should agree that I too just hate F-35.

NATO’s air force is completely untested

Well, again, Israeli and Turkish ones are tested somewhat well, but mostly against much weaker opponents unable to get their sh*t together.

and reliant on extremely expensive, hard to maintain platforms with very limited tactical flexibility.

Yes.