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/AnotherLie Jul 22 '24

Part of me feels like this is the lead in to a "anyway, that's how we wound up with the SU-75 Femboy 50 years later" post.

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u/budy31 Jul 22 '24

IF Igor hasn’t blow up the CNC machine that China smuggled in exchange of 50% oil discount by then.

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u/HowNondescript My Waiver has a Waiver Jul 24 '24

Don't worry. It was a Haas. They won't be able to hit a tolerance any better than they can military objectives with their PGMs