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The most infamous example of this is hip implants made in China that had to be recalled due to being made wrong. This is also why Chinese structural steel is ra
by UltraSane 5mo ago
The most infamous example of this is hip implants made in China that had to be recalled due to being made wrong. This is also why Chinese structural steel is rarely used in North America and Europe.
- tw1984 5mo ago[flagged]
- slaw 5mo agoEU has ASML, Airbus and their suppliers left.
- tw1984 5mo agothe key component of ASML is invented and manufactured by the US, that is how the US can force ASML not to export its EUV machine to China. it is an American tech. Airbus is not the result of high tech manufacturing, it is the result of setting up regulations to stop others to join the competition. The entire EU is not capable of building any 5th gen fighter jet on its own, that is the best proof that its aerospace industry is about 20 years behind China's, same as the space industry.
- speleding 5mo agoThe US-made Ultra UV light source is important, but there is quite a bit more than that to a $380 million lithography machine. (Otherwise someone would have created a competitor by now.)
- rbanffy 5mo ago> Airbus is not the result of high tech manufacturing I LOL'ed. > The entire EU is not capable of building any 5th gen fighter jet on its own Saab is, but there has been no need to develop 5th gen fighters if there are reliable international partners that can provide them. Recent development made it clear the US is no longer a reliable partner and the European aerospace industry is working on reducing the dependence on US equipment.
- slaw 5mo agoI LOL'ed. Saab doesn't have any expertise to build modern aircraft.
- rbanffy 5mo agoAn aircraft doesn’t need to be modern - it needs to shot down the other before it gets shot down. And, as we have seen with cheap drones, all that money spent on making great stealth aircraft has not stopped Iran from blocking access to 20% of the world’s supply of crude. So, how effective are your fifth generation fighters based on your nuclear carriers again?
- slaw 5mo ago> An aircraft doesn’t need to be modern - it needs to shot down the other before it gets shot down. Frontal RCS of the Gripen C/D between 0.1 m2 and 1.5 m2 Frontal Radar Cross-Section (RCS) of the F-35 roughly between 0.001 m2 and 0.005 m2 Gripen is an old airframe useless in modern combat. It will be shot down from far away.
- rbanffy 5mo ago> It will be shot down from far away. By what exactly? The military don’t exist in a vacuum - and the equipment they need varies with mission requirements. That’s why the A-10s had its life extended: because it is a better fit than the F-35 for ground support missions. Same applies to the B-52 and the B-2. The operational cost of the F-22 and F-35 alone make them a poor fit unless you are engaging highly sophisticated air defenses, something the US haven’t done since WWII. The requirement to be able to neutralise American aircraft is a new one for European (and Canadian) air forces, but one that’ll be tackled.
- UltraSane 5mo agoBy what exactly? By F35s and F22s and F47s
- Peanuts99 5mo agoConsidering decent portions of the F35 are built by BAE, Leonardo, Rolls-Royce and Martin-Baker - all of which are working on a 6th generation fighter which is due to be flight tested next year - this doesn't really ring true.
- redsocksfan45 5mo ago[dead]
- markdown 5mo agolol wut? Ever heard of ASML? They make the thing that makes the things that all the other economies you mentioned depend on.
- UltraSane 5mo agoI didn't say where the steel the US and EU uses comes from, just that they don't use Chinese steel. So this is a very bad trolling attempt. You also use the word "woke" like the Nazis used the word "Jewish"