Military learning curve in war
Professor whatever: what is your cell phone model? What is your TV model? Military equipment becomes obsolete at the same speed as the technological aging of your cell phone.
The country that enters production later will be the most modern; digital electronic weapons are not stockpiled; each version of the F16 and F35 belongs to a newer technology block; with a stockpile of 700 F16 Eagles produced over 20 years ago, the US is stranded with obsolete old machines; the most important thing is to keep the plants prepared to produce quickly and in large quantities, and not to build up stockpiles that will soon become obsolete; at the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the Turkish Bayraktar drones underwent an evolution from piston engines driving propellers to jet engines, and new electronics more resistant to new electronic interference; The S300 and S400 learned to map the electronics of the ATACMS, STORM and HIMARS and in six months they blocked their inertial and GPS guidance systems.
The US suffers from a shortage of engineers because young people are fascinated by the internet bubble with its promises of becoming famous and billionaires like Musk and other Titans created by the demonstration effect of capitalism. They are unaware of the mechanisms of leverage since the creation of Microsoft, INTEL and other shell companies inflated by the Pentagon, DARPA.
It is not for smart kids in their garages to create successful companies: it is all illusion, fantasy, urban legend, hoax, click bait.
