From the above.
it’s vertical takeoff and landing. And the reason why vertical takeoff and landing is so important is that in all of our wargames, we lose more aircraft on the ground than we do in the air. And over the last 20 or 30 years, the United States has spent a considerable amount of money making aircraft incredibly survivable in the air. More and more low observable, more and more advanced technologies, to be survivable in the air. What China has done is said, okay, cool, you guys keep going down that road, we’re just going to take them all out on the ground before they even get there. Or we’re going to deny the ability for those aircraft to even get into the fight, because tactical aircraft are heavily dependent on tankers, to cover the ranges in the Pacific. So, we’re going to prevent you from basing them too close, which means you’re going to rely on the tankers, and we’re going to develop a lot of ways to hold those tankers at risk so that you can’t even get them into the theater.
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