Now, bring this concept into a potential conflict between the US and China. China has ~200x the ship building capacity as the US.
In WWII it's generally agreed that the NAZIs had better, more sophisticated weapons. The US and Soviets just built more which ended up being a winning strategy.
In both the Ukrainian and Iran theatres, mass produced cheaper drones have proven an effective strategy against sophisticated anti-air defenses.
My point is that in real conflicts it seems manufacturing quantity is more important than technological superiority. Today, the US boasts of its weapons superiority, but China's manufacturing capacity far exceeds the US. If it really came to (non nuke flinging) war between the two, it seems China has the advantage.
In WWII it's generally agreed that the NAZIs had better, more sophisticated weapons. The US and Soviets just built more which ended up being a winning strategy.
That's a common myth. Like any other nation, Germany had a couple things they did better and things they were worse at. They never had broad technological supremacy at any point in the war.
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sundray@lemmus.org · 36 pts · 53d
Yondoza@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 52d
Now, bring this concept into a potential conflict between the US and China. China has ~200x the ship building capacity as the US.
In WWII it's generally agreed that the NAZIs had better, more sophisticated weapons. The US and Soviets just built more which ended up being a winning strategy.
In both the Ukrainian and Iran theatres, mass produced cheaper drones have proven an effective strategy against sophisticated anti-air defenses.
My point is that in real conflicts it seems manufacturing quantity is more important than technological superiority. Today, the US boasts of its weapons superiority, but China's manufacturing capacity far exceeds the US. If it really came to (non nuke flinging) war between the two, it seems China has the advantage.
h54@programming.dev · 10 pts · 52d
That's a common myth. Like any other nation, Germany had a couple things they did better and things they were worse at. They never had broad technological supremacy at any point in the war.
icelimit@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 52d
Quantity is a quality. More often than not, the winning quality.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 53d
Ngl that era was absolutely peak credibledefense
iocase@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 53d
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 53d
TL;DR ice cream and cake is unironically the most credible defense
ddplf@szmer.info · 1 pts · 52d
Who's winning the aura farming contest here?
schildfrosch@feddit.org · 1 pts · 50d
depends on if you ask fascists or mentally unchallenged people
Mr_Fish@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 53d
Got too many concrete ships? Who wants some ice cream!
MantisToboggon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 53d
I can't even build Legos