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@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
The US is flat out failing to perform with military technology. China and Russia have fully developed hypersonic missile capabilities. The US keeps trying and can't do it. These repeated failures are getting tough to explain. 1/ https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hypersonic-missiles-america-military-behind-936a3128?mod=hp_lead_pos7
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
"For more than 60 years, the U.S. has invested billions of dollars in dozens of programs to develop its own version of the technology. Those efforts have either ended in failure or been canceled before having a chance to succeed."
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
"The spending is part of America’s struggle to re-establish dominance in key military technologies as it enters a new era of great-power competition."
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
"The U.S. is straining to keep up with China in an array of military technologies, ranging from artificial intelligence to biotechnology."
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
"The Pentagon’s problems with developing hypersonics run up and down the decision chain, from failed flight tests and inadequate testing infrastructure to the lack of a clear, overarching plan for fielding the weapons."
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
"Even the most advanced U.S. warship in the South China Sea could be defenseless against a hypersonic attack."
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
"Hypersonic missiles combine speed with the ability to fly at low altitude and maneuver in flight, making them more difficult to spot by radar or satellite. That makes them almost impossible to intercept with current systems."
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
“Our nation has chosen not to create an operational capability, and a lot of people ask why,” said L. Neil Thurgood, a retired general “One of the reasons is for the last 20 years, we’ve been spending our national treasure of blood and resources on the global war on terror.”
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
"Progress has been halting, in part, because hypersonic weapons are notoriously difficult to develop. Traveling at faster than a mile a second generates heat exceeding 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, beyond the limit of most materials."
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
"The Army’s plan for the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon this year was thrown into doubt after an early March test flight was canceled at the last minute."
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
"Also in March, the Air Force nixed its most advanced hypersonic program, developed by Lockheed Martin, after several test failures."
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
Some commentators doubted my thread yesterday, insisting the US was far more technologically advanced than China. Those days are history, unfortunately, we are trying to play catch-up and are failing so far.
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
This is an *oh sh*t* moment for the US that needs to wake the entire nation up - but likely won't. China is not just a much larger manufacturing economy - they are technically more advanced than the US is. The hypersonic missiles, the numerous bullet trains, the 5G factories 1/
@davidpgoldman - David P. Goldman
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/china-ai-and-semiconductors-rise Semianalysis says US sanctions have failed. China has a robust, high yield 7nm process.
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
Another day, another massive US technology failure... sigh. The US wants to spend $13 billion to build Arctic icebreakers, in order to compete with Russia and China. Except, the US seems to have "lost" the technology to do so. Highlights as follows: 1/ https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/to-build-ships-that-break-ice-u-s-must-relearn-to-cut-steel-da8c797f?mod=e2tw
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
"U.S. officials are racing to procure new polar icebreakers because one of only two that the Coast Guard now sails has reached the end of its life, and the one assigned to the Arctic is out of service for maintenance every winter."
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
"Delivery of the first new icebreaker has slipped to 2028 from 2024 as designers, engineers and welders grapple with something the U.S. hasn’t done in decades: reliably shape hardened steel that is more than an inch thick into a curved, reinforced ship’s hull."
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
"The Coast Guard hasn’t launched a new heavy icebreaker since 1976. Out of practice, U.S. shipbuilders have had to relearn how to design and build the specialized vessel, say officials in the industry and the government."
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
"By comparison, Russia has three dozen national icebreakers suitable for the Arctic, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, and China has four, including two icebreaking research ships that regularly appear at high latitudes."
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
"The machinery and skills to build the hulls of most oceangoing vessels aren’t sufficient for the specialized icebreakers. The hull plates need a bespoke alloy and specialized heat-treatment, with a process to form and weld massive curved plates."
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
“Higher-strength steels require very skilled people,” said Jeff Moskaluk, senior vice president at SSAB Americas.... “It’s not like you just treat it the same as any other piece of steel. It takes a beating—that’s exactly what the steel is designed for.”
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
"In addition to the technical challenge, American yards are reckoning with a shortage of shipwrights. Employment in ship and boat building totaled just 154,800 in July after peaking at 1.3 million during World War II, according to data from the Federal Reserve."
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
'“One of the challenges is the workforce—getting qualified welders,” said Bob Merchent, retired former chief executive of VT Halter Marine, since acquired by Bollinger Shipyards. '
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
So many people seem to think that because we are the US, we have the best technology in the world, and the most skilled workers. That used to be true. It hasn't for a long time now, though, and the situation is getting worse, jeopardizing national security in multiple ways.
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
We don't have the designers or experienced engineers. We don't have the shipwrights or welders. We are having trouble with basic execution, because investment bankers don't understand technology, and think blue collar workers are interchangeable.
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
It isn't just our inability to build super-sophisticated hypersonic missiles, while Russia and China can. We can't even build an icebreaker, while "poor, pathetic, backward" Russia has 36 in service.
@SaysSimulation - Labrador Skeptic
The US is flat out failing to perform with military technology. China and Russia have fully developed hypersonic missile capabilities. The US keeps trying and can't do it. These repeated failures are getting tough to explain. 1/ https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hypersonic-missiles-america-military-behind-936a3128?mod=hp_lead_pos7