Christopher Kirchhoff: belief

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…So, to spend more money, in essence, is the solution? No, no, no. I think we need to be spending way less money on legacy systems that are demonstrably defeatable today. Anybody that’s been watching Ukraine in the last two months should decide that tanks are not a great investment for modern military. Similarly, anybody that’s read even news articles about hypersonic weapons should decide that buying more aircraft carriers is not a good thing. But we do need some of those resources shifted to this new defense ecosystem that’s very experimental, that’s building swarming weapons. The Air Force is very commendable, under the leadership of Secretary Frank Kendall. They now have what’s called the Collaborative Combat Aircraft. This is a 10,000-aircraft buy of supersonic stealth drones who will fly alongside manned fighters in the largest change of Air Force doctrine since, really, the Wright Military Flyer. Oh, by the way, guess who the two finalists are for the production contract for this massive program. They’re Anduril on the one hand, and another nontraditional defense contractor, General Atomics. The traditional primes lost to those two companies for this revolutionary contract. How is our system of inspectors general holding up?…

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