American military capabilities declining?

Yeah because giving companies billions of tax payer dollars to build shit is capitalism.

Absolutely nothing about the military industrial complex is capitalistic in nature. It's literally just high ranking government members funnelling public money into their own pockets. War is a racket. The only places doing actual war these days are African tribes and Mexican drug cartels.

The weapons contractors buy off politicians, and the politicians fund enormous "testbed" projects which are way more lucrative for the weapons contractors than actually building weapons.

That's the serious, no-BS answer. Our government is enormously corrupt. Ironically, if your congress-person is corrupted in this way, you are MORE LIKELY to reelect his corrupt ass, because hey, he's sending jobs to your district.

and they have tiny crews that woudl be fucked i n an attack

I don't care if all ZOG's toys break. Fuck my gay ass government.

>What's happening
Their military isn't about military.
It's about buying votes.

China will surpass the US.

- The J-20s natively made jet engines (WS-15) replacing the Russian made ones can already do stuff Russian jet engines can't such as supercruising,
- Type 003 super carrier with CATOBAR is launching in mid 2022,
- Type 004 super carriers with EMALs is launching in early 2003, China's second generation 5th gen fighter, the FC-31 is entering mass production in 2023.
- The Type 055 Destroyer is the best missile destroyer currently fielded by any navy in the world.
- The new Chinese assault rifle being mass field, the QBZ-191 is said to be extremely effective by Japanese sources.
- China became last year the only country with factional orbit hyper-sonic bombers.
- China's recently introduced HJ-12 ATGM is way better than the Javelin since it can do both IR and also TV Imaging for targeting (the Javelin can only do IR targeting, so forget about the Javelins working so well like they're doing in the Ukraine against non-cold war stuff without thermal camouflage and in a frozen landscape)

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More diversity will fix it

>is launching in early 2003,

2023

All of chinese specs are complete bullshit, there is zero reason to belief any of this

why your country worship niggers and trans?

Meanwhile in the real world J-20s are doing surprise interceptions of the supposedly "stealth" F-35s flying on the South China Sea and US generals are saying they're impressed by the plane performance and how it took them by surprise.

> Gen Kenneth S. Wilsbach, Commander of the Pacific Air Forces, said the encounter left the U.S. "impressed."

> "They are flying it [J-20s] pretty well. We recently had – I wouldn’t call it an engagement – where we got relatively close to the J-20s along with our F-35s in the East China Sea and we're relatively impressed with the command and control that was associated with the J-20," Wilsbach said about China's prized fighter.

ibtimes.com/us-impressed-chinas-j-20-stealth-fighter-after-f-35s-have-close-encounter-3442347

>canards

do they even stealth?

>3 people get killed
>the ship sinks

Nowhere in your article do they say it took them by surprise, why are you fluffing it?

How isn't it?

Are you about to tell me America has never tried REAL capitalism?

All of these new platforms are trash for a couple of years after they come out, that is a nothingburger. But, we ARE in decline. Just not nearly fast enough to get rolled for a couple more decades.

Anyone in the know, knows that Ships are sitting ducks and are generlly useless in a large scale war.
Aircraft carriers are the best thing ever if you fight against 3rd worlders, but against Russia or China completely useless.
Send a swarm of missiles, nuclear or not doesnt matter and that thing goes down.

A few US stealth plane prototypes also implemented canards (the JAST and the X-36 for example)