No im telling you to use a non BS metric.
Explain how a higher budget put into a military doesn’t directly correlate to greater military strength?
That is, factually, incorrect. Next 6 countries, including Russia and China? Yes, US budget is greater than this. EVERY OTHER COUNTRY? No.
And, again, returning to my original point - GDP without PPP correction is useless metric beyond basic d-measurement contest
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you dont understand GDP
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Okay, build a 10 super carriers.
Smartest Freeaboo. build an affordable hospital or something man, maybe an actual discussion can form after that
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Bro. We don’t even have the planes in the game. Chill
Purchasing Power Parity does not remotely come into play here. PPP is specifically meant to reflect living standards, but for some reason, you seem to take it as “Fact”. Last I checked people in China and India don’t live better lives than people in the US. People in the US also have far higher wages.
Why is PPP irrelevant? It’s simple. The Dollar is more powerful than pretty much every foreign Currency. It’s the World Reserve Currency for a reason.
No, Russia is not a more powerful military than the US. Stop making roundabout excuses.
The F-22 is a significantly more advanced aircraft than every other jet in the world other than US ones. Sorry to say, but it’s just the facts. It’s been extensively tested in war unlike other Country’s “equivalents”.
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im not the guy that mentioned PPP. nor am I calling russias military competent, they would have finished their special military operation if so by now. I was saying GDP as a metric is foolish and doesn’t even scratch the surface of internal economic fruition
No, looking at GDP alone doesn’t give you all the facts, but when there’s THAT big of a difference in GDP, it does tell you a fact.
The US has a Military budget 100 times bigger than Russia. No matter how many things you factor in, it won’t change that massive gap.
I’m not a Freeaboo, I just know that the US can’t be touched by other countries. The only way anyone can compete with their military is by unifying and entire Continent like the EU.
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“F-22 or Su-57”
…yeah so the GDP of a country is…
Economy class💀
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GDP directly correlates to Percent of GDP spent on military, which correlates to Military Budget and Technological Investment, which translates to more advanced tech.
The US has 100 times the budget in their military compared to Russia.
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for NATO countries maybe, because we have a 2% rule. the whole world, most of it, isn’t NATO
More correct to say that GDP includes military spending - which is a major reason why Russian GDP has been maintained for the last couple of years.
GDP does not, however, include non-monetary contributions to society such as unpaid work.
As someone who has first hand experience flying both these planes I can confirm that J20 beats both of them.
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Can concur I’m Xi Jinping’s top guy and he told me so
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Unpaid work doesn’t make up that 100 times gap.
The Su-57 has visible bolts. That’s bad. Especially for Stealth.
military budget doesn’t always translate 1:1 into military effectiveness, as seen by the many blunders the US and other big spenders have made
Not the point - the amount of unpaid work is likely relatively similar and simply isn’t measured as part of GDP, whereas arms production is.
There is worse… top image is normal operation with engine blades directly visible - mesh screens in bottom image are for foreign-object ingestion defence while on the ground - not a stealth feature.
Relative size is also interesting:
those mesh screens are radar blockers AKA radar deflectors.
so instead of a 90 degree incidence angle of the waves, its a 30-60 degree incidence angle which deflects most of the waves in directions not towards the scanning radar.
still not F-35 levels of stealth but a stealth feature still.
its possible radar blockers are a second layer ahead of the mesh screen but eh idk