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U.S. Sea and Air Stealth Weapons Dominance Offers Hope for Peace

The F-35 stealth fighter jet and U.S. nuclear submarines offer battlespace dominance that Bill Whittle says is perhaps the best hope for world peace. Join the men of Right Angle for this encouraging update on stealth weapons at sea and in the air that has Iranian Mullahs sleeping with one eye open.

U.S. Sea and Air Stealth Weapons Dominance Offers Hope for Peace

The F-35 stealth fighter jet and U.S. nuclear submarines offer battlespace dominance that Bill Whittle says is perhaps the best hope for world peace. Join the men of Right Angle for this encouraging update on stealth weapons at sea and in the air that has Iranian Mullahs sleeping with one eye open.

22 replies on “U.S. Sea and Air Stealth Weapons Dominance Offers Hope for Peace”

There’s a reason you are cautious around a grizzly. You know it can kill you, so you respect it, even if you don’t love it. I terms of human interaction, or actions between nations, It is always better to be the grizzly. Thus why we have capable and advanced weapons and the will to use them. This fact of human nature if often lost or ignored by pacifists.

The F-35 buying program was atrocious, and it still has too small of a bomb load, but it is a highly-capable platform. The difference today is that precision-guided munitions seldom miss anymore. What took an entire group of B-17s to take out in WWII can often be achieved with 1 bomb today, because with few exceptions, they just don’t miss anymore. The Pk is high with modern munitions. The F-35 is like a one-man AWACS in terms of sensors, but it can’t do the battle management (yet) that an entire team of battle managers can do on an AWACS. Nevertheless, these may well be the last manned fighters and C2 platforms in our inventory. The rapidly advancing factors of drones and nanotechnology are about to hit the defense industry with a paradigm shift in technology. While humans will remain in the loop for the foreseeable future, more and more AI will get involved, simply because it is faster and more efficient. No pilot can pull more G’s than an unmanned drone can. No human can think faster than an AI. And new “swarm” technology will give drones applications we can only imagine in the very near future, making them near impossible to fully counter, particularly in terms of intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and weapons capabilities. When you add to that newer energy weapons that travel at the speed of light, the lethality of military firepower is about to make a huge leap. And we need to be the grizzly, not the prey. This is the state of life in our universe, and we need to understand that. We don’t have to like it, but the truth is unlikely to change. Let’s be the grizzly in the room, with all of the power and capability, the fear of which keeps most enemies from messing with us directly. Don’t think for a moment that we gave all of our tricks and real abilities to our allies. I am sure we have many tricks on the F-35 we reserve just for the United States, and some of those are probably beyond what even Israel has.

Bill – I watched your other article regarding the F-35 (“The Defense Debacle”) and I agree with you on just about everything from the cost overruns to the lack of a gun (on the B and C models anyway).

For your consideration, may I humbly suggest a slight change in emphasis on which characteristics that make a good fighter, or at least a more well-rounded approach. BFM is still important, making maneuverability a highly desirable trait for a fighter, however it is not the primary trait and must be weighted with other capabilities.

For the viewers who may not know, in order for maneuverability to be useful, you must be WVR (ie. in a turning engagement). This is often what the general public thinks of since movies like “Top Gun” have this engrained in our culture and it makes for much better movies. The reality is, however, that in this day in age with long range BVR missiles (longer and more reliable than the Vietnam era anyway), you have to survive being shot at BVR, find the merge, and then start turning with the enemy for superior maneuverability to be an advantage. A fourth generation fighter (like the F-16) will have difficulty detecting a stealthy fifth generation fighter like the F-35 at range, making it difficult just to find the merge. Meanwhile, the F-35 with improved avionics will be able to detect the larger RCS opponent and employ BVR weapons. Even if those fail to impact the target, the high SA fighter (F-35) will be able to setup the merge such that it has the advantage for follow on weapons employment WVR. High Off Boresight Weapons such as AIM-9X with the helmet cuing system further negate some of these advantages in maneuverability.

Bottom Line: Maneuverability is not everything, and as Steve mentioned, avionics are an playing an ever more important role in A/A warfare. Simply put, relying primarily on maneuverability in the high end fight is like the gentleman with the sword in this famous Indiana Jones scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQKrmDLvijo

I saw the youtube, and you’d never guess what was offered up on the related videos over to the right… Apollo 11 What We Saw – Part 1…!!!
Thru Daily Wire…
Yeah!!

Go, Admiral Richter! I think that was his name! He fought both military and government to produce a safe, economic way to use nuclear power.

Navy
does nuclear power right. Sorry to nitpick.

We have had dozens of relatively small nuclear reactors running for years. We should take those designs, and build dozens on land all through the country. The power companies have a fixation about making huge power plants and moving electricity across large distances rather than distributing the plants through the entire country.

Bill mentioned Chernobyl, and now I am interested if his wife has seen the HBO series about it, and, if so, what she thought of it.

I think the latest count is a total of 10 verified nuclear subs sitting at the bottom of the ocean. Two US and 8 Soviet and Russian. Our last sinking was over 50 years ago, 1968. Both our ours exceeded crush depth, one for know reasons and one unknown.

Russians and Soviets for a variety of reasons, to include weapons explosions.

I think our safety record is pretty damn good.

This info is from the site below, but something I heard the other day said that over 40 Russian nuclear subs have been lost.

https://military.wikia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_nuclear_submarines

FYI the Royal Navy’s first nuclear powered submarine was HMS Dreadnought. launched 1960, commissioned 1963 and in service until 1980.

The fooferall about the RN’s latest nuclear powered sub is due more to the tendency to hyperbole of modern “journalists” and their ignorance of anything that happened before they left school.

One item I read asked if they were able to grow their own food on board, as otherwise the sailors would starve if they didn’t dock every couple years.

If the “people who are 27 years old and know nothing” forgot never knew about the original nuke subs they might think being able to stay underwater was a new thing, and it might be the case that this one can stay underwater go without refueling just a little longer with some new efficiency, making it a story, just not one for everyone to care about.

Did I hear that right? The stability of a Denny’s? If so, I’m hungry now, if not I’m embarrassed! Enjoyed this episode either way?

The IDF have been doing flybys of their enemies (Assads) palaces and command centers for decades. Fantastic message to the dictators to tell them they ain’t safe and therefor keeping the peace.

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