Elon Musk emphasizes the need for a large-scale investment in hypersonic missiles and drones for the U.S. military, while denouncing the F-35 fighter jet as an inefficient and outdated platform.
Business magnate Elon Musk has stated that the U.S. requires a substantial inventory of hypersonic missiles and long-range air, surface, and underwater drones. 'America needs a large quantity of long-range drones (air, surface water & submarine) and hypersonic missiles. Anything manned will die very fast in a drone war,' Musk announced Thursday on X. These remarks build upon comments he made in a tweet last month: 'Future wars are all about drones & hypersonic missiles.
Fighter jets piloted by humans will be destroyed very quickly.' Musk has specifically criticized the F-35 fighter jet, labeling it 'a s--- design.' 'The F-35 design was broken at the requirements level, because it was required to be too many things to too many people. This made it an expensive & complex jack of all trades, master of none. Success was never in the set of possible outcomes. And manned fighter jets are obsolete in the age of drones anyway. Will just get pilots killed,' he asserted in a November post. In another post last month, he exclaimed, 'Some US weapons systems are good, albeit overpriced, but please, in the name of all that is holy, let us stop the worst military value for money in history that is the F-35 program!' President-elect Donald Trump appointed Musk, alongside former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an unofficial initiative aimed at exposing government waste and advocating for spending reductions. Musk has been warning about the nation's excessive spending. 'Terrifying ,' he wrote last month regarding America's substantial national debt. The national debt surpasses $36.1 trillion, according to fiscaldata.treasury.gov
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