Much like many of the Nazi wunderwaffles, the ones from the USA also have mostly never faced the test of large scale deployment on a real battlefield in a peer conflict either so they say whatever they want about the superiority of their equipment and doctrine and who knows, it could be true, right? Ukraine is really revealing it all to be just so much bullshit though.
I’m trying to think of western weapons that did actually face a real trial and a lot of the examples I can think of the performance was just kind of “fine”. The F-86 was bested in some important characteristics by the MiG-15/17, the F-4’s shortcomings in flight characteristics and complete reliance on unreliable missile technology was a problem, the M-16 rifle’s early history is pretty notorious, various helicopters that seem to be real good at crashing. A lot of these problems were addressed eventually resulting in a weapon system that was adequate (but hardly war-winning), but fixing a problem requires acknowledging the problem first and, at least publicly, the USA doesn’t seem to be doing that. Perhaps the weapons manufacturers behind the scenes are putting the new experiences to use, and perhaps they can produce weapons that are merely overpriced instead of overpriced and inadequate.
Much like many of the Nazi wunderwaffles, the ones from the USA also have mostly never faced the test of large scale deployment on a real battlefield in a peer conflict either so they say whatever they want about the superiority of their equipment and doctrine and who knows, it could be true, right? Ukraine is really revealing it all to be just so much bullshit though.
I’m trying to think of western weapons that did actually face a real trial and a lot of the examples I can think of the performance was just kind of “fine”. The F-86 was bested in some important characteristics by the MiG-15/17, the F-4’s shortcomings in flight characteristics and complete reliance on unreliable missile technology was a problem, the M-16 rifle’s early history is pretty notorious, various helicopters that seem to be real good at crashing. A lot of these problems were addressed eventually resulting in a weapon system that was adequate (but hardly war-winning), but fixing a problem requires acknowledging the problem first and, at least publicly, the USA doesn’t seem to be doing that. Perhaps the weapons manufacturers behind the scenes are putting the new experiences to use, and perhaps they can produce weapons that are merely overpriced instead of overpriced and inadequate.