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I always though the US-Military is almost allmighty. It's nice to see there are clear limitations to their power.
They are allmighty.
In Hollywood movies!
Wait, are you telling me U571 and Battleship are not documentaries?
They must be fact based though, yeah?
Screw this, I'm going to check for myself. Brb...
Honestly, their K/D/A ratio is pretty shockingly bad, also they've quite a few times been feeding (trained Osama, to sick him on another country they didn't like, Osama came back to bite them in the ass. Gave support to a military Junta by a fascist military, that gov came back to bite them in the ass. Etc etc)
They just have an incredibly good propaganda arm, that makes them look more mighty than they are
The only massive wars the USA ever actually won were the Civil War (against ourselves, doesn't count) and WWII (when we had almost the entire goddamn world on our side). We got like a participation trophy for WWI. Other than that, it's all been colonialist bullshit oppression of smaller/weaker countries, there's never been a direct conflict with another major industrialized country.
Biggest paper tiger in history.
The air force of the army of the US navy (i.e. the air force of the USMC) is bigger than the air forces of all but 3 countries in the world. It's the 7th largest air force in the world, only beaten by the actual USAF, the army's air force, the USN air force, and the countries of China, India and Russia (though that last one might be out of date thanks to Ukraine).
The US might not be quite as powerful as it's sometimes portrayed to be, and might really struggle when it faces tactics that it hasn't prepared for. But, it's still a ridiculously powerful military.
where is the rail gun we see in transformers.
Trump doesn't like magnets
We're going back to steam powered cannon
Best we can do is a catapult
And Iran has trebuchets
why not a ballista.
They cut the rail gun program a couple of years back or something.
I seem to recall reading the rail kept melting
I bet, it's an incredible weapon, I would think it would be a good way to start out payloads into space, instead of just rocket boosters, throw them into the air at 30k mph or whatever, then hit the boosters.
Obviously if people are onboard that wouldn't work as the gravity force would kill them.