Erik Prince
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the amount of air incursions where they fly Chinese aircraft, PLA Air Force aircraft into Taiwanese airspace, fly around.
It's very hard to even intercept them.
That's my frustration with INDOPACOM or the Taiwanese leadership.
Be innovative, okay?
Clack off an IED in front of that Chinese, that squadron of aircraft, not shoot it down,
But there's a way you could build effectively an airborne IED and put a cloud of grit up in front of those engines so that every one of those engines of those Chinese fighters has to be overhauled and replaced by the time they make it home.
You can really up the cost of their nonsense if you're innovative.
But if you depend on Raytheon, Lockheed, Northrop, Boeing, you're screwed.
And you're going to pay 100 times as much and not have the effectiveness.
Power grid, telecom grid, banking, whatever.
Yeah.
I mentioned salt.
Nonsense.
And the Pentagon was spending all kinds of money on green, environmentally friendly jet fuel.
And so kudos to Secretary Hegseth for focusing on merit and lethality.
That's all the Pentagon needs to be focused on.
And we have an extremely convoluted, ineffective defense industrial base.
which has largely been cartelized by way over consolidation and really bad, really dumb Pentagon procurement processes.
So what they should do on the shipbuilding side, we have, there's lots of family owned small and medium enterprises that build ships for oil and gas space, for the exploration space, for servicing lots of remote islands.
So there's lots of companies they could go to with