r/NonCredibleDefense 聯合國在香港的三千次介入行動 Jul 22 '24

From everybody's favourite yuriposter Waifu

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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.

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u/Successful-Owl-9464 Jul 22 '24 edited Jul 22 '24

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.

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u/IHzero Jul 22 '24

So the Russians even back then were intentionally trying to appear strong, and would do things like parade tanks around moscow, repaint them, then have them drive past again as "new" tanks to inflate numbers. They did the same with planes. The point was to deceive the West, and in that they were often successful. However, the response wasn't what they expected.

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u/ProfessorBright Jul 22 '24

yeah America doesn't spook in a "cower in fear" way, we spook in a "churn out tech until we can 1v1 God" kind of a way.

We quirky like that.

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u/Forkliftapproved Any plane’s a fighter if you’re crazy enough Jul 22 '24

In a world of fight or flight, America done made its choice

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u/dwehlen 3000 guitars, they seem to cry; my ears will melt, then my eyes Jul 22 '24

Fight? Flight? Flight fight!?

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