Raj M Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff’s thriller-like book reveals how the Pentagon came up to technological speed
On a pre-dawn patrol in 2006, Raj M Shah, a 27-year-old US air force captain, was flying an F-16 fighter jet near Iraq’s border with Iran when he realised that he did not know which side of the border he was on. That was a serious problem. Entering Iranian airspace could cause an international incident. Worse, he might be shot down. Although the F-16 was among the world’s most advanced jets, its navigation system could not graphically pinpoint his location on a moving map.
While the US spent billions on weapon systems like F-16s , rivals, be they Isis fighters, crafty insurgents or sophisticated state militaries such as Russia, increasingly developed their technologies at a fraction of the cost, often using off-the-shelf components churned out in China and Taiwan.
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