Post #1626194
2026-03-22 12:42 UTC
@cstross Trump and the people around him are absolute morons, yes, but there is a weird motivated thinking desire among many to breathlessly claim US military hardware - which Trump had no hand in the development of - somehow sucks.
The F-35, for all its infamous flaws, is working better than experts expected. It was never designed to be fully stealthy - it emits radar so it can see and shoot at enemy aircraft.
And SM-3 continues to be phenomenal.
But the awesome performance of some systems
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@isaackuo@spacey.space 2026-03-22 12:46
@cstross really does not change the fact that there never was any way to "win" this Iran War. You just have to look at this size, terrain, population layout of Iran compared to Iraq 2003 to get an idea of what sort of invasion force would have been necessary. And there aren't any neighbors to Iran eager to become an invasion staging area. So ... Iran will win. Period. They'll get bombed and stuff, and then ... they'll win.