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Since Indian GDP is in the spotlight, let's quickly expose the fraudulent Indian economy.
🔴India's economy is built on unproductive consumption; You might say, consumption is great.
True, BUT. Advanced consumption driven economies of EU for example, are backed by a productive industrial sector.
The US is a special economy, since their biggest export is the US dollar. Which is probably the most effortless and lucrative export.
India on the other has none of those aforementioned advantages.
So their consumption is mostly driven by investment led consumption, such as the real estate sector and by the growing population that needs basic necessity to survive.
Hence unproductive consumption.
🔴All major industries in India massively relies on imported components or outright imported wholesale. This means local Indian companies have very little profit.
This is shown in the staggering fact that India has not had a trade surplus in decades.
Trump wants to have a twin-engine version of the F-35, dubbing it the F-55.
So similar to the Chinese J-35.
From this we can delve into an interesting rabbit hole, comparing the efficiency of Chinese armament industry vs their US counterparts.
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The F-35 should've been a twin engine setup from the start. They were forced to use a single engine, because of the useless F-35B STOVL (short takeoff vertical landing) variant for the marines.
In most scenarios, the US marines do not need to fight for their own air superiority
US navy's aircraft carriers can do that.
And if the US marines really needs their own airwing, why not just put a ramp on their amphibious assault ships, and have a STOBAR set up?
The twin-engine F-35 can takeoff from ski jumps and land traditionally with arresting wire.