Here is the problem: U.S. military programs...
costing $4.2 billion each.I could cite example after example of this problem, but let"s return to the aforementioned F-35 fighter, whose price has doubled. As I mentioned, the deadline for commissioning the jet is constantly being pushed back. Moreover, it is not clear that the F-35 would even be effective in combat. Some analysts claim that the expensive light fighter does not necessarily have an edge over the Sukhoi jet fighter family.
How can such failures be explained? Among other things, all leading weapons developers and manufacturers eventually run up against a technological barrier. The last time this happened was during World War II and in the immediate post-war period when the piston-engine aircraft became more and more difficult to improve. It was eventually superseded by the jet.
The major powers achieved a technological breakthrough "thanks" to World War II, which forced them to vastly increase investments in military R&D and fundamental
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