godofthunder9010 said:
The US has done a lot of research into lasers, but apparently it just never to Americans to use them to blind military opponents. Honestly, the idea of it is pretty "un-American". It could have been developed a long time ago otherwise, I'm sure.
I am not laser-expert, but one thing I am sure is: if I can make laser to make you blind, once I increase the power, I can just kill you, making a hole through your head. So, your argument is too......
I will basically argue about China cause Russia is too weak now, even Chinese become so picky to buy their stuff recently cause Russia seems dont have enough new stuff recently, while Chinese are catching up quickly by absorbing Russia's stuff.
Okay, regarding the command-control, if you noticed I mention super computing---that basically means large data processing, or possible AIs. As I just researched, Chinese has become the second country in the world making their own CPUs (NOT JUST re-PRODUCING FOR INTEL), at this moment, they can only develope similar CPU like PIII, but think about last year, they had none!!! so, imaging the speed.... And in fact, F117,JSF such advanced machines has to have hundreds of military CPUs--I think this is one of the reasons no other country can make them at all. Regarding materials or others, here is the following:
You know, things regarding navy or aricraft stuff, all related to manufacturing (not all, but mostly). If you go to walmart, you might still argue that Chinese can only produce shoes, but actually, Chinese is the biggest electronic exporter to USA? if you check CNN recently, SONY (usa) tried so hard to stop China exporting plasma TV (their own stuff) to USA, otherwise, they will be off business in USA in one month. little off topic, but what I am saying here is the manufacturing power is potentially such huge, which indicate finally the manufacturing for battleship and aircraft can be huge too. By the way, Chinese have become the second largest ship manufactuer in the world already last year (size and numbers).
Last thing, is the so called strategic weapons--nukes, missles, especially the new kind such as: laser/nukes based on or from satellite. I dont have too much materials with me now, anybody want to open to discuss about ?
by the way: do you guys really think there are big difference between the military electronic equipments and the daily electronics we are using? I really dont see big difference most of time.