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But the OPs comment was that the west ended invested in SAMs, a laughably incorrect statement if you study the order of battle of any western military, US or ot
by SEJeff 5y ago
But the OPs comment was that the west ended invested in SAMs, a laughably incorrect statement if you study the order of battle of any western military, US or otherwise.
- dylan604 5y agoIt's kind of like saying that we ended investment in 8-bit hardware because we've replaced it with 64-bit hardware. It's not that we stopped, it's that the funding has been repurposed for newer/better things.
- tablespoon 5y ago> But the OPs comment was that the west ended invested in SAMs That's not at all what I said. I suppose it would have been a little clearer if I had said "never invested as heavily" in SAMs compared to the Soviets, but I wasn't focusing on the West. I was making a point about Soviet-style forces fighting one another. Nothing about that implies the West never invested in SAMs or has stopped doing so. It just means they're not as central to its air defense strategy.