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Although stealth delays radar detection, its more important role is making stealth planes hard to target with weapons. The wide bands of radars that can detect the planes are not able to locate them accurately enough to target them with weapons. No stealth is invincible, so mission planning is also key.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CvdMbWGHTA
The F-35 is vastly superior to the Gripen E. By comparison, the Gripen E is the budget choice. If the goal is to limit dependence on the mercurial United States, the Gripen is dependent on American parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C096AkDu1IQ
“Air traffic control (ATC) is too important to be vulnerable to politics. Around the world, governments have acknowledged this fact and depoliticized their ATC systems, beginning with the reformist Labor government of New Zealand in 1987. They removed the ATC system from their transport ministry and permitted the aviation user fees that had been paid to the government to instead be paid to the new Airways New Zealand.
It worked so well that within a decade, a dozen more governments had followed suit, realizing that ATC is essentially a public utility, analogous to electricity. A stream of ATC user-fee payments is a bondable revenue stream that has been utilized by ATC utilities to finance large-scale technology upgrades and consolidate aging ATC facilities into a smaller number of modern ones.
Today, roughly 100 countries receive their air traffic control services from user-funded utilities.”
https://reason.com/2025/11/05/americas-longest-government-shutdown-shows-why-we-must-free-air-traffic-control-from-politics/
The U.S. may not have enough pilots to win a long war against a peer competitor. It takes a long time to train pilots, and they don’t stick around because flying commercially pays more. The pilots we do have don’t get enough flying hours. The U.S. Air Force has similarities to Japan and Germany’s air forces at the beginning in WWII. Germany and Japan did not have enough pilots or a robust enough pilot pipeline to maintain skilled pilots throughout the war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tl-8VOAxXg
China may have the most advanced jet in the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb73ujYs2m8
Ukraine’s F-16s are helping it shoot down missiles that ground-based defenses and Ukraine’s Soviet aircraft have trouble with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ-IA0GLvqY
Russian jets violated NATO airspace in Estonia with minimal consequences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV2OTIBtjSw
Israeli strike took out several high ranking Houthi officials.
Israel releases more footage of brutal Hamas terrorist attack that started this war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFV_1H6y2r8
Is the Navy’s new F/A-XX stealth fighter dead in the water?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH019U1QhDw
U.S. needs new, advanced aircraft to replace its aging planes, and to remain the number one competitor in the skies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjDFNXVlJKE