Well yes, but I wouldn't be surprised if Starlink was for nuclear?
Why am I being downvoted here?
US, Europe, west, and democracy in general, at current times needs to be 100% at its game on the most significant power in human history.
Ultimately dictatorship is not going to give up, and they want to prove democracy is wrong, and at some points nuclear weapons are going to be used for that.
We are at pre-war right now. But it's a matter of time for all of it to escalate to all out war. We must be prepared for it.
There's an interesting question concerning why (most) US stealth aircraft are black. Black isn't the best color to make an aircraft invisible at night; a dark blueish gray is best for that. One possibility is that the radar absorbent material is inherently black so they don't have a choice, and indeed the U-2 was originally a dark blue color before it received a new black RAM paint. That is probably the real reason I think, but another possibility is that when missile and radar technology made visual intercepts less relevant, they were freed to paint these secretive aircraft a less optimal black, which everybody knows is the proper color for secretive aircraft.
Incidentally the new B-21 apparently won't be black. Maybe they have a new RAM paint formulation that doesn't force the choice of black.
Whatchu talkin' 'bout Willis? Neither the B-2, nor the F-22, nor the F-35 are black, they're all this bluish gray you mention, same as most non-stealth aircraft. The only stealth aircraft I can think of that was black was the F-117.
You're right that the F-22 and F-35 aren't black, but neither are they the blueish gray I'm talking about which is much darker: https://dragonladyhistory.com/2019/04/30/u-2-black-paint/ The B-2 also isn't very blueish, it's more on the dark gray end of the scale but I can see how that's subjective.
And you're forgetting the U-2 and SR-71, which lacked full blown RCS reduction geometry but were still fitted with the black RAM coating (the SR-71 also had some stealth geometry; that was the purpose of the chines.)
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