Trump administration 2024-2028

[Halifax Tar]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2004759817353895988

I wonder how port visits will go now..

 

[dapaterson]

With no requirements for precision or even tested airworthiness, and hence dramatically cheaper. It is like comparing a Lambo to a 1976 K5 Blazer.

Fair. But, quantity has a quality all its own.

 

[brihard]

It seems pretty clear that there’s a place for exquisite systems, but that they need to be in conjunction with the ability to mass fires with lots of ‘good enough’ so that worthy targets aren’t neglected.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2004759817353895988

I wonder how port visits will go now..

Well the article states "Canadian travelers and diplomats."

 

[Altair]

It seems pretty clear that there’s a place for exquisite systems, but that they need to be in conjunction with the ability to mass fires with lots of ‘good enough’ so that worthy targets aren’t neglected.

Shermans versus Tigers and the west learned the wrong lessons from WW2.

China seemed to learn that quantity is a quality of its own.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Shermans versus Tigers and the west learned the wrong lessons from WW2.

What lessons, one wonders. That having a lot of armoured formations based on a handful of organization templates and with a few equipment types and a lavish logistical tail is better than having fewer formations with bewildering assortments of domestic and captured equipment that are constrained by fuel and ammo shortages?