Save ammo

Those rounds ain’t cheap

And a laser has in theory unlimited ammunition and range.

I'm sure they're developing them to also fry electronics.

so long as you are generating power, the laser has infinite ammo

tho still current issue with them is fairly limited range, due to how light works

currently a few F-35's have been fitted with anti-missile lasers, with pretty good sucess

its honestly stuff like Lasers that make me think that ol traditional dogfighting will make a return, as missiles are more expensive than the load of cannon ammo + in a fight your most likely gonna lose your missile load tryna kill the target but the missile keeps gettin shot down

I think ramjet powered aams and laser weaponry could very well be the future of a2a combat

Though if we're going to go to the topic of scramjets they'll need weapons that are either experimental or flat out don't even exist yet.

What would happen if china and AMERICA go to war?

Who would win

My bet is the USA

Depends who strikes first I guess 🥸

Still

Id say the US. As if it turns into a war of attrition, China will essentisly starve due to having a extremely large population as well as being a massive resource consumer

And they just stupid <:troll_face:726878856585281557>

Doesn’t the usa have more allies and nukes 🙂

Right, but to say the US would ever use nukes first is plain stupid. MAD effectively neutralizes that threat.

China has nukes too

@Ranger_720 also the US is the only country with nukes that has a first strike policy

Allies means nothing when said allies would gain nothing from fighting China. Most country would be fixing to lose more than they'd gain

in a one on one, the US would definitely win because China's navy is basically non-existent outside the South China Sea and they are about 30 years behind the US technologically. Missiles only somewhat tip the scale because most of them are useless unless they have live coordinates for a US carrier. And the US is really the only country capable of that on a massive scale.

The navy would have a pretty hard fight against the Chinese ships

They have a lot of ships

Fair point but at also depends on how well the crew is trained

I mean no one has ever done naval combat in the 21st century

Well true

they have ships with 70s tech

# of ships /= hard fight

21st century is all over the horizon

Look China is stupid enough to end the whole world with nukes if they start to lose

I'm not even gonna argue that because it's ridiculous

so unbelievably outlandish

Well nobody believes China's NFU because they continue to expand their stockpile 🤷‍♂️

soviets had a massive stockpile too and they were not first strike

Because they were smart enough to not end the world

I'm not saying they will use them, or that they need to (because that's false), but it doesn't help tensions

soviets were hardly smart

the amount of times they were going to attack the US for training exercises should show that

US military is outdated whereas China and Russia are advancing at scary rates. Either country would give the US a serious run for their money in a few years