Business titan Elon Musk has argued that the United States needs a large stockpile of hypersonic missiles and long-range air and sea drones.
“America needs large numbers of long-range unmanned vehicles (air, surface, submarine) and hypersonic missiles. In a drone war, anything manned will die quickly,” Musk wrote in a post on X on Thursday. declared.
The comment was a nod to comments he tweeted last month, in which he said, “Future wars will all be about drones and hypersonic missiles. Human-piloted fighter jets will be quickly destroyed.” Ta.
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Elon Musk listens as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks to the House Republican Conference at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on November 13, 2024. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Musk specifically targeted the F-35 fighter jet, calling it a “terrible design.”
“The F-35 design was a failure at the requirements level because it asked too many people to do too much. So the F-35 became an expensive, complicated jack-of-all-trades. “I was never good at anything. Success was never on set,” he declared in a November post, “and manned fighter jets just kill the pilots anyway.”
In another post last month, he exclaimed, “Some American weapons systems are good, albeit overpriced. But in the name of all that is holy… Please stop the F-35 program, the worst military value in history! ”
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An Israeli Air Force F-35 Lightning II fighter jet flies over during an air show in Tel Aviv on April 26, 2023, as Israel celebrates Independence Day (Yom Ha’Atzmaut), the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish state. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)
President-elect Donald Trump tapped Musk, along with former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an informal effort to expose government waste and advocate for spending cuts.
Mr. Musk is sounding the alarm on the nation’s waste.
Last month, he wrote that America’s massive national debt was “(honestly) frightening.”
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
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According to financialdata.treasury.gov, the national debt is more than $36.1 trillion.
“We either solve this problem or we effectively go bankrupt,” Musk warned in a post Thursday.
