I would think air superiority would be dictated more "
locally (To include who the enemy is." then say even "
tactically" or "
strategically" as some things really haven't changed much since the Cold War. The general feeling was that "
air superiority" wouldn't really be achieved fully due to the
West's perceived and otherwise technology advances in aircraft against the
East's average or better aircraft with a distinct quantitative advantage.
It'd be a wash.
That's not all my opinion, as much form declassified military and intelligence documents some of which I posted a few years back in someone's thread.
I really don't see how much has changed in this regard from the Cold War, we didn't build enough
F-22 fighters but we have enough for
"
local" air superiority in well planned op. The Russian
T-50 PAK/FA will never reach the maturity it was initially designed for because they can't afford it after, of all countries,
India backed out of the deal because Russia wouldn't make the necessary design changes to where that fighter could've been
much more competitive in combat against the
F-22.
So what'll they do? Like in the Cold War fill the skies with aircraft in the quantitative advantage they still enjoy today.
So what are we going to do, well, it's long overdue but we'll be fielding
SHORAD systems in the USA and USMC within the next couple of years or sooner. This will fill an anti-air gap we've been vulnerable to for a
very longtime.
On the tanks let there
no doubt that the
USA is getting/got those tanks back, if you read the refs closely, they technically and otherwise speaking, already have
200 of them.
These are continuations of what I've already posted but from
JANE's...
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/n...le-divestiture
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/n...ks-to-soldiers
Now if I was one for "
conspiracy theories", I'd say
PLAN 2030 was a misinformation plot to lull the Chinese and Russians into thinking "Bring on those Marines with no tanks, we'll show them!!"
But what's really happening is both services recognize the fact that the USMC armor needed to be more fully modernized to face the newer tanks out there. So we tell the world "
No more tanks for the USMC."
they transport to the very USA depots that are building what?
That's right the
M1A2C (SEP 3). So the
USMC will get their tanks back at parity in type, they'll be forward deployed in crates marked as "
Farm Tractors" and such
(Don't laugh the Russians, Cubans and Chinese have been caught doing the same thing, though a longtime ago.
) until we need them.
Of course due to the classified nature of this project, we'll still likely need to
END them in the game as already noted...
Thought I heard a knock at my door!?!...and I can't say much more about this, hope you'll all understand this.
Don be careful you almost had this figured with that "
warehouse" remark,
they don't like people that get "
to close to the truth", just saying!!
So a long day and still have things to do before I hit the rack!!
Regards,
Pat
