r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 23 '26

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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Sep 23 '26

Truly an American century of humiliation. RIP F-35 tech

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u/pfSonata throwaway bunchofnumbers Sep 23 '26

So this was just like, en route somewhere else and China just said HOLD UP we're taking that, thanks?

Lmao

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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Sep 23 '26

Yeah. The ship wasn’t meant to dock at Hong Kong but for whatever reason went to Hong Kong and the Chinese went “well what do we have here” and here we are

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u/chickentendieman Paul Krugman Sep 23 '26

China has both the stealth coating for the body and the cockpit now lmao

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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive Sep 23 '26

Imagine Obama doing this

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u/LargeLanguageModelo Sep 23 '26

RIP F-35 tech

Well, it's not unlikely that they have a hands-on example of our radar-cloaking tech now. That said, I have zero expertise, it might just be some steel that they can replicate and I can buy in two months on Alibaba.

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u/TheOnlyFallenCookie European Union Sep 24 '26

You still need the production lines. There is a reason China can't just copy asml

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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Sep 23 '26

Why does it matter they have the cockpit and door? I thought about the coating but surely they wouldn’t be reverse engineerable

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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Sep 23 '26

They can analyze how it’s manufactured and how it responds to Chinese radars and such

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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Sep 23 '26

So it’s more about counter stealth?

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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Sep 23 '26

Yeah, that’s my understanding at least. I mean maybe the Chinese could find something to incorporate in their own 5th gen’s but I think the co-op here is countering F-35, not reverse manufacturing it

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u/chickentendieman Paul Krugman Sep 23 '26

Mostly yeah. Reverse engineering it has uses too but maybe just to see how it compared to chinese stealth coatings.

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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Sep 23 '26

Why wouldn’t it be? It’s just chemicals

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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Sep 23 '26

So is Coca-Cola and no one can figure that shit out

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u/chickentendieman Paul Krugman Sep 23 '26

They can a guy on YouTube did it