American AA missiles cannot hit an air balloon at close distance!

Haha, China is learning how to behave like the USA, but not in areas that the USA wanted. While the USA has weaponized its US$, China is weaponizing its control of rare earth, its manufacturing over-capacity and most discreetly its military development. China's spending may be dwarfed by the USA but gets more bang for the buck. China is now selling its proven weapons to many countries. I am sure these are not areas that the USA wanted China to behave like them, right?

Yes, the USA has to be careful of what it is asking for, with more to come from China. China is trying to share the aviation sector cake now. China is also pouring resources into chip development to rival the USA. The fact that China is confident enough not to extend an opening for Nvidia's H200 chips from entering the Chinese market is a clear signal that China is still in the game. Data centers in the USA are being strangled by energy shortage and competing with domestic users, which says a lot about USA's AI sector. Jensen Huang already mentioned that cheap energy is the deciding factor moving forward, not hardware dominance. Is the man saying this for fun.


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PS. When it needed two or three air to air missiles to knock down a hot air balloon that is barely moving, not evading, not jamming, and at short distance, with the pilot having all the time in the world, not under any pressure, it speaks a lot about the quality and reliability of American weapons.


Chinese air to air weapons, like PL15, can accurately hit a moving target at high speed, more than a 100km away, now that is something to talk about. That is the quality of the technology, hardware and software in the missile, in the firing aircraft and the surveillance radar tech of the AWACS.