Does the US Military ever think about logistics? Great, now you can move a squad further, faster. But now you have two helicopters strapped together, plus the tilt system, and all of that needs to be repaired and maintained, you need to move parts and replacements. You’ve at minimum doubled the amount of ground maintenance your aircraft needs after every flight. And while that aircraft is being serviced for either twice as long or by twice as many mechanics it’s not in the air, it’s not ready to fly, so to keep up the same number of missions you need twice as many of them, or twice as much maintenance logistics.

Does this read? I really think that with vundervaffen like the F-35, even if they could do everything they say, the US is setting itself up to starve due to the long, very complex logistics trains. The F-35 in stealth carries half the payload of an F-16 and needs several times as much maintenance, which means that any airfield or carrier is going to have to do vastly more maintanence on twice as many sorties to keep up the intensity of F16 raids. Which means if anything in the supply chain breaks they’re gonna get real fucked real fast. And carriers only have so much space in them, so it’s not like you can just add more planes, hangars, and fields. It seems so obvious to me that if the US actually tries to use these things the logistics network will collapse within days or weeks.