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It's also nice that at the end the author mentions the risk of having all armed forces basing on just one or two genuine platform design. I would always vote for having a greater diversity in altenrttive platforms in service, so that if one gets compromised by an enemy, not all forces are automatically effected. That starts with sophisticated electronics and carrier platforms, and ends on even a low level like infantry firearms.

On the F35 I always thought that for what it can do it simply is hopelessly, HOPELESSLY, overpriced. Same is true for the F22. Even if technological superiority were given, it can compensate numerical inferiority only to a certain degree, and not beyond. An d a single loss of such an expensive hightech toy scores more hurting than two or three losses of a platform in a fleet where there are more units available.

But probably the whole defence industry in the US is a profit and job generating measurement anyway. The dominant weapons of the coming next major war, are cyberweapons.

And that war has gone hot already.