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President Trump has proposed a $54 billion increase in defense spending, which he said would be "one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history."
Past administrations have increased military spending, but typically to fulfil a specific mission. Jimmy Carter expanded operations in the Persian Gulf. Ronald Reagan pursued an arms race with the Soviet Union, and George W. Bush waged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mr. Trump has not articulated a new mission that would require a military spending increase. This has left analysts wondering what goals he has in mind. Erin M. Simpson, a national security consultant, called Mr. Trump's plans "a budget in search of a strategy."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/22/us/is-americas-military-big-enough.html
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What do you think about the proposed increase in military spending ? Does USA really need more weapons ?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 26 2017, @12:58AM (1 child)
"like a bird" is kind of average. It blinks in and out depending on the exact angle.
The SAM has to be guided. Any onboard radar is inherently poor due to limited power and limited space, both for the computer and for the antenna. The antenna limitation is serious; no amount of technology advance can compensate for this. (basic physics issue) If the SAM is guided from the ground, then it will be unguided because the ground stations get attacked.
You damn well can detect the launch platforms. There are special aircraft designed for exactly this purpose. One can also hack into communications to determine locations. One could do even better, hacking in and doing various things.
Ultimately though, you just have to give things a best effort. Anything less is an automatic loss.
(Score: 2) by pvanhoof on Sunday March 26 2017, @09:44PM
The best-efford goes both ways.
The "special aircraft" will get shot down by more capable missiles if needed. Russia has space-rocket capability since decades, and can surely hit your average spying plane just fine. In fact, they have proven it repeatedly.
If you want to loose expensive gear, pilots + training and and face the music in international media by having fancy toys shot out of the high skies: fine. Because that's exactly what your "special aircraft" will encounter. RT will even put it on youtube for all to see. Even and especially if you cry-baby in the Western media about it. Shot down they will.
Another example: the blinking-on-radar by no means implies that even simple amateur software can't find a pattern of a straight line going at a certain speed out of it. It easily can. And will. And then your fancy expensive fighter jet gets shot down anyway. With all the international media drama to go with it, too.
You see. "The other side", the Russians, also invested in defence. If you fly over them in ways that they don't want you to; you get shot down. Plain and simple.
You can leave your US cowboy hat at home. As it'll get shot down, too.