So there’s a new article in Popular Mechanics

We know how Popular Mechanics feels because the link embedded in “plane” above is this:

But if like me you wondered if we needed a new fighter jet, especially after dropping literally, and I mean literally, a trillion dollars on the F-35, here are all of the US’ air-to-air losses in the last three decades, keeping in mind that in that time the Cold War ended and our state-of-the-art planes would have no reason to fight anybody’s contemporary fighters:

That’s 5 unmanned craft, two helicopters from friendly fire, and one aircraft from two generations of fighters ago not counting this mysterious new one.

But it’s a little more complicated than another fighter jet we don’t need and haven’t needed for a couple decades, if ever. Here’s Popular Mechanics again:

Let’s just ignore the bootlicker fawning over killing machines and think about this for a sec. The latest stealth fighters from Russia and China both took at least a decade to develop each, but their contemporary in the US, the F-35, also took over a decade and quite a lot of money. Except now the US is suddenly capable of developing, testing, and producing a new top of the line fighter jet all in one year? I have a few likely ideas:

1: The fighter doesn’t exist. The military budget has been increasing but it didn’t balloon enough to cram the decade-long, trillion dollar creation of the F-35 into a single year. Why fake it? Tr*mp has been disastrously escalating a trade war with China and if we don’t want it to go full USSR and pull us into a proxy war where their new fighters piloted by their proxy fight ours, we need to project a better craft than the F-35 and its quick development broadcasts vastly superior production power.

2: It does exist, but it might suck actually. More locally, Tr*mp wants to show he can make a better and cheaper fighter faster than the previous two administrations. It also shows the supposed benefits of deregulation and the rebirth of American manufacturing. Or, this is a new, futuristic (or futuristically styled) variation of the F-35 (remote operated maybe?) meant to be the flagship of the Space Force. Or an entirely new but rushed plane for that purpose; not valuable on its own as a fighter jet, but like I outlined above, more about broadcasting superiority at home and abroad.

So if you’re wondering why Americans can’t have healthcare, it’s because a significant amount of our taxes are spent making useless pieces of shit intended to kill and terrorize poor people (if they a. Exist and b. Can even get off the fucking ground).