Why is American military technology so bad?
>>522555541THIRD RATE POWER
>>522555541>most profitable weapons in the world>le badDumb ass.
>>522555541The American military industrial complex has one purpose. Generating profits for their share holders. Making weapons that are functional, easy to maintain and cost effective does not generate the same amount of profit
>>522559744Abrams wasn't really a big export.
>>522555541Americans probably saw the writing on the wall regarding the dwindling use cases for main battle tanks in warfare after decades of struggling to make good use of them in the Middle East. There is a reason America hasn't been worrying about developing a new tank while every other country that hasn't been at war for like 80 years is s-o-ying out over muh leopards (which get immediately wrecked by drones like every other tank).Also the Abrams having a complex supply chain make it pretty much impossible for enemies like ISIS and the Taliban to capture and maintain a fleet of them to use themselves, as they did with other platforms. I don't believe that's intentional but it is a weird positive of being difficult to maintain.
>>522555541the past 70 years of military technology is mainly about fighting poor peasants in countries communism was taking hold. most of it fighting in desert or jungle
>>522560747That's a double edged sword though as the Abrams could easily end up being impossible for even the Americans to use in battle if they face an enemy who is able to target their logistics effectively. You wouldn't even need to take it all out, just hit their fuel tankers used to keep the tanks gassed up. No fuel, no tanks
>>522555541Their just focusing on the tanks, but our naval armada was the high point of that parade.
>>522555541Cuz whites can’t make anything. They never could. It was all stolen just like ford stole the car from black people
>>522561434You mean anticolonialism, and you dummies thought you were fight ooga booga commies. Your leaders lied to you. You’re the real commies. No property rights, taxes in every hole, no bodily autonomy, and you think men are women.
>>522561508Of course, but Russia ran into the exact same problems during the first stages of their invasion of Ukraine and they're not using anything remotely as complex or difficult to maintain as the Abrams. It just seems to be a fact of warfare that main battle tanks are not really very useful right now, regardless of who makes them or operates them or maintains them, and the US not prioritizing them is a smart move not a foolish one.
>>522555541Dumb ukie niggers firing ap rounds instead of he. Doesn't understand the notion of taking out bearing walls instead of useless filler.
>>522555541>America dumps it's outdated weaponry on a country whose war we are in no way invested in>Not even giving a shit if these weapons are fit for the roles said country needs them for>"Why American weapons such shit?!"The only reason this war was allowed to continue for so long is as a recreational money sink for the MIC and to establish new military doctrine for the next generation of weapons being developed in secret. The world is watching a roughly symmetric war play out with last generation tech and learning. Any other interpretation of the conflict is delusion and propaganda.
>>522561548I'm pretty fucking sure this cardboard ship video is fake. I saw it on the day the parade happened, but it didn't appear at any point in the actual livestreams.
>>522555541Who would have thunk all you really needed was overwhelming air superiority? You wouldn't need tanks or infantry or trench combat when you can desert-strike the shit out of the enemy and walk in the enemy's capital unimpeded. They probably would not have insurgence problems either
i don't even need to look up that article to know it's a clueless liberal journo working for a Rolling Stone mag being butthurt about the US Army 250th anniversary parade because in his mind it's somehow tied to Trumpand that's the only reason he's being a whiny bitch like that
