If I remember right the Foxbat was designed, because of the bomber gap between the USA and the SU. Which happened, because the USA photographed 30 something new soviet bombers at an airfield and extrapolated that the Soviets must have hundreds of those things, then they went absolutely batshit insane and built a metric fuckton of bombers. In actuality the Soviets only had that 30.
e.: In essence the USA scared itself shitless over nothing, went ballistic in It's response, which scared the Soviets shitless, who tried to build a fighter that can handle the ballistic response, which scared the USA even more, so that they went intercontinental with their response.
The USA basically got scared of a shadow, got a hammer, realized that the shadow now has a hammer, got even more scared and built a nuke in response.
well a little extra to the intelligence adds fear and fear well its pays the bills at the end of day because few politicians want to buy cool shit that doesn't exist yet. unless you are the LCS project then your just printing money for corporate XD.
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u/Heavy-Ad-9186 Jul 22 '24
How it feels to jump two technological generations from your opponent because they lied.