Turkey's defense industry is gonna take a huge hit because of their decision to pursue the S-400. But it does bring up another issue. What happens when you use a weapon to such a degree that people develop countermeasures?#BREAKING: Production of T129 ATAK helicopters for #Turkey's Gendarmerie General Command & #Pakistan Army Aviation is now stopped in #Turkish Aerospace Industries (#HAI) facility due to the fact that Rolls Royce has stopped delivering LHTEC CTS800-4A turboshaft engines for T129. pic.twitter.com/tlQ7k0WvCN— Babak Taghvaee (@BabakTaghvaee) July 19, 2019
What do I mean? The tank. Dominate for awhile then anti-tank missiles were developed. The battleship. Once dominate but then overtaken by aircraft carriers.
Sanctions. They're obviously crippling now, but will there come a time when we see an international black market ran by nation states to subvert them?
I can't help but think we're using this "tool" so often that countermeasures will/are being developed.
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