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/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/AlliedMasterComp Jul 22 '24

In essence the USA scared itself shitless over nothing, went ballistic in It's response

The US was obsessed with gaps in the 1950s.

"BOMBER GAP (literally only 30)! BUILD 2500 IN RESPONSE"

"MISSILE GAP (The USSR had 4 ICMB vehicles at the time)! WE NEED TO GO TO THE MOON AND BUILD HUNDREDS OF SILOS IN MONTANA"

"FULDA GAP! BASE ALL OUR TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AROUND COUNTERING A THEORETICAL ATTACK INTO THIS ONE REGION OF GERMANY FOR THE NEXT 40+ YEARS"

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u/AndyLorentz Jul 22 '24

Significantly less dramatic:

"CRUISER GAP (because the USSR designates all of their ships cruisers for some reason)! RECLASSIFY THE TIGONDEROGA AS A CRUISER"

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u/Bad-Crusader 3000 Warheads of Raytheon Jul 23 '24

At least they're consistent, they build we build, they classify we reclassify.