Health Ranger - Mike Adams - U.S. Can't Make Military Radar Systems Due to Rare Earth Scarcity
Aired: 2026-02-13
Duration: 15:16


=== F-35 Without Radar (08:02) ===

[00:00:03]  Take a look at this photo here.
[00:00:06]  This is gym weights that have been attached to the nose cone of what is said to be an F-35.
[00:00:17]  And the reason they're using gym weights here is because the radar units can't be made.
[00:00:25]  And the reason the radar units can't be made is, well, because of exactly what we've been talking about right here.
[00:00:33]  Welcome to the special report.
[00:00:34]  I'm Mike Adams.
[00:00:36]  And, you know, a week ago, I warned about this exact thing.
[00:00:39]  I said, look, probably the U.S. military, if it loses F-35s or if it loses B-2 stealth bombers or any other highly advanced aircraft, it will not be able to replace them.
[00:00:53]  And why?
[00:00:55]  Well, because, of course, the U.S. government doesn't have access to the rare earths any longer because those are the ones that have been blocked by China, which has a near 99% monopoly on many of them.
[00:01:09]  And I did a podcast on this, and I even did an article on this, which was published February 3rd.
[00:01:15]  And it's called Unobtanium and Hopium, How China's Rare Earth Siege Has Neutered U.S. Military Might.
[00:01:25]  And in that article, I said exactly this, that China's monopoly is staggering.
[00:01:32]  It controls from 48% to 100% of global production for these materials.
[00:01:38]  This dominance gives Beijing decisive control over supply chains, vital to modern warfare.
[00:01:44]  The catastrophic implications are direct.
[00:01:47]  Without gallium and germanium, the production of advanced radar systems, satellite communications, and infrared night vision equipment grinds to a halt.
[00:01:58]  And I went on to talk about a shortage of antimony and tungsten and graphite, which China controls 100% of graphite.
[00:02:06]  And I talked about dysprosium and terbium and neodymium and other elements.
[00:02:12]  And again, what did I say?
[00:02:14]  The U.S. military doesn't have supply chains for these, at least not reliable supply chains.
[00:02:20]  And so what's happening now is so, it's such a freaking clown show.
[00:02:25]  It's almost too crazy to be true.
[00:02:29]  But it actually is true.
[00:02:31]  And it's been covered on numerous defense industry websites like DefenseTalks.com.
[00:02:37]  It says F-35 fighters delivered without radars as APG-85 integration faces further delays.
[00:02:47]  And that story says the following astonishing thing, that newly built F-35 fighters are entering service with the United States Air Force without onboard radar, reflecting ongoing delays and integration challenges associated with the program's next generation sensor suite.
[00:03:07]  Oh yeah, I bet, I bet the delays, we know what's causing the delays.
[00:03:13]  It's the lack of gallium and other rare elements.
[00:03:18]  So it says, according to reporting by Avionics International, aircraft that's originally scheduled to receive the advanced radar from 2025 onward are currently being delivered with no radar installed at all.
[00:03:34]  This issue stems from a combination of development delays and supply chain constraints affecting the new system.
[00:03:41]  Oh, supply chain constraints.
[00:03:43]  Oh, you mean like exactly what we've been talking about here.
[00:03:46]  So let me get this straight.
[00:03:48]  So the United States Air Force is buying fighter jets that have no radar.
[00:03:57]  So they're going to be flying blind, flying blind.
[00:04:01]  What are they supposed to do?
[00:04:02]  Top gun this thing with their eyeballs?
[00:04:04]  They think this is World War II?
[00:04:05]  Yeah, just look, look at three o'clock, enemy fighters.
[00:04:08]  Give me a break.
[00:04:10]  No radar means you're dead.
[00:04:12]  No radar.
[00:04:14]  And also, by the way, submarine systems use these rare earths for their communication systems as well.
[00:04:21]  So, I mean, we're going to have an Air Force that's blind, a Navy that's deaf, and a military that's dumb.
[00:04:29]  Like, too stupid to be able to build anything because we outsourced all the minerals to China, and then Trump came along and cut off China.
[00:04:39]  And there are morons out there cheering Trump's tariffs.
[00:04:43]  It's so good.
[00:04:44]  It's so good.
[00:04:45]  And they believe this lie that Trump says, oh, it's going to replace the income tax.
[00:04:49]  We're going to be able to cancel the income tax, just support the tariffs.
[00:04:53]  That's a lie.
[00:04:54]  Of course, I mean, who's dumb enough to believe that?
[00:04:57]  Not going to replace the income tax with tariffs.
[00:05:02]  The numbers don't even work.
[00:05:04]  And besides, they don't need the income tax to raise money.
[00:05:07]  They need it to control people and keep people down.
[00:05:10]  So you really have to be a complete idiot to believe, like to support the tariffs and think that that means, oh, we're never going to have to pay federal income taxes again.
[00:05:20]  Nonsense.
[00:05:21]  Of course, you're going to pay income taxes.
[00:05:25]  So it says, since June of 2025, this has been going on a while.
[00:05:30]  The new F-35s have been delivered without radar with ballast installed in the nose section, you know, the gym weights.
[00:05:38]  Like, we are truly living in idiocracy.
[00:05:40]  This is a total clown show.
[00:05:42]  To preserve the aircraft's center of gravity.
[00:05:48]  This approach, it says, has allowed production and deliveries to continue rather than halting assembly lines while waiting for radar availability.
[00:05:58]  What do you mean?
[00:05:58]  This approach has allowed deliveries to continue deliveries of blind F-35s that can't be used in combat.
[00:06:07]  But even then, they say, oh, oh, but it can.
[00:06:10]  This article says, program officials maintain that an F-35 without radar can still fly and operate safely.
[00:06:19]  You can't make this up.
[00:06:20]  Total clown show.
[00:06:21]  In practice, such aircraft are expected to function within formations that include fully equipped F-35s or other assets capable of providing sensor data.
[00:06:32]  So wait a second.
[00:06:34]  So let me get this straight.
[00:06:37]  They're going to launch like three F-35s.
[00:06:40]  Only one of them has radar, and the other two are relying on the radar from the first one.
[00:06:46]  And if something happens to the first one, then all three are toast.
[00:06:49]  Uh-huh.
[00:06:50]  Okay.
[00:06:52]  Yeah, that's what it sounds like.
[00:06:55]  You know, we've often joked about the F-35 barely being able to fly.
[00:07:00]  Even when it has radar, it can barely fly.
[00:07:03]  And now we find out that it's not even going to have radar.
[00:07:10]  Note to everyone, Iran has radar.
[00:07:14]  Russian aircraft have radar.
[00:07:16]  Chinese aircraft all have radar.
[00:07:19]  Yeah, only America says, oh, we don't need no stinking radar.
[00:07:24]  We'll just fly around with gym weights in the nose.
[00:07:27]  We'll call it good.
[00:07:30]  What are people thinking?
[00:07:31]  Seriously, we are living in the dumbest chapter of this country, of the history of this nation.
[00:07:38]  We're living in idiocracy.
[00:07:40]  I mean, what's next?
[00:07:41]  They're going to deliver them without engines and they're just going to have like a rubber band with a propeller back there and all like a bunch of men have to wind it up and then get ready, go, you know, And takes off and then crashes because the rubber band doesn't last long enough, like I can seriously see this going full idiocracy at this point.

=== America's Dumbest Chapter (06:36) ===

[00:08:06]  But you know, on a serious note, this brings up something really critical here, which is that the?
[00:08:13]  U.s cannot win any sustained war period.
[00:08:20]  There's no question about that.
[00:08:22]  I mean, yeah, the U.S. Can pull off little kidnappings and such, as go kidnap Maduro, with his cooperation, Obviously.
[00:08:30]  Tell his people to stand down, you know.
[00:08:32]  But the U.S. can't fight Russia in a sustained war.
[00:08:37]  Obviously, that's already been shown.
[00:08:39]  The U.S. can't fight China.
[00:08:41]  It can't fight Iran in any kind of sustained conflict.
[00:08:45]  All the U.S. can do is launch a bunch of missiles and bombs and then run and sail back home or fly back home and try to reload because you shot up all your ammo already.
[00:09:01]  In a sustained conflict where the U.S. is taking losses, the U.S. can't replace those losses.
[00:09:09]  In fact, there's a very serious shortage of shipyard capacity in the United States Navy.
[00:09:16]  And that's why some ships are being built in South Korea.
[00:09:19]  So if ships get damaged and have to sail home to go into a port for even maybe dry dock repairs, then that's going to be a multi-year, multi-billion dollar practice right there.
[00:09:34]  The U.S. can't repair much of anything and it can't build much of anything because it doesn't have a supply chain for the minerals and elements that it needs, including graphite.
[00:09:46]  And it doesn't have the knowledge base domestically.
[00:09:50]  It doesn't have people who know how to do anything anymore when it comes to physical repairs.
[00:09:57]  I mean, who knows how to fix an aircraft carrier?
[00:10:00]  Not that many people.
[00:10:02]  There's really not that many people.
[00:10:04]  There are some.
[00:10:05]  There are some in Virginia, the welders and so on.
[00:10:09]  There are a few.
[00:10:10]  But most of the people who know how to do that stuff, they're retired or dead.
[00:10:15]  They died after taking the jab.
[00:10:17]  Got killed off by Operation Warp Speed.
[00:10:20]  So they're no longer around to repair anything.
[00:10:22]  So in other words, if the U.S. actually gets into a fight with anybody, if the U.S. doesn't win in the first two weeks, it's going to lose badly because it's over.
[00:10:33]  The U.S. has no depth, no depth of ammo, no depth of supply chain, rare earths, no depth of a skill set, training, endurance.
[00:10:45]  None of that exists.
[00:10:46]  Have you seen, not to mock people's physical structure, but our soldiers are fat.
[00:10:53]  Soldiers are fat.
[00:10:55]  They really are.
[00:10:56]  And it's crazy because they're fat in their 20s.
[00:11:02]  And if they're fat in their 20s, imagine what they're going to be by the time they hit mid-40s, for God's sake.
[00:11:09]  And look, I'm nowhere as thin as I was when I was in my 20s.
[00:11:13]  That's for sure.
[00:11:14]  But, hey, I jogged an hour today.
[00:11:18]  You know, I can jog an hour.
[00:11:21]  I don't think there's very many people in our military that can jog 10 minutes.
[00:11:25]  You know, I mean, the special forces guys can.
[00:11:28]  But active duty, have you seen these people sitting at the desks in the naval offices?
[00:11:34]  They look like they have one hand on the keyboard, one hand on a cheeseburger.
[00:11:39]  You know, they're not fit.
[00:11:41]  They're not smart.
[00:11:42]  They're not educated.
[00:11:43]  They can't do math.
[00:11:46]  I don't know how the U.S. expects to win any kind of a war.
[00:11:49]  And maybe this is why Iran is calling Trump's bluff and saying, no, we're not going to agree to your insane terms because we think you can't beat us.
[00:12:02]  And Iran is probably correct.
[00:12:06]  So I guess we'll just have to see where this goes.
[00:12:07]  But bottom line is, you know, take my warning seriously when I do deep research on a collapsing supply chain and no more rare earths available.
[00:12:18]  And I see what Trump is doing with the tariffs, which are just insanely stupid.
[00:12:23]  I mean, it's almost suicidal.
[00:12:25]  It's hurting America way more than it's hurting China because China can export those elements to lots of other countries.
[00:12:33]  Whereas, you know, America doesn't have any other choice of where to get them for the most part.
[00:12:38]  Maybe they can find a few stockpiles here and there, but China controls most of the supply.
[00:12:45]  So we're probably not that far away from submarines being delivered with no sonar.
[00:12:53]  They're supposed to just cruise around the ocean until they bump into something, like a Roomba robot.
[00:12:59]  And they bump into something.
[00:13:01]  They have a bumper on the front, and then they change direction and sail again until they bump into something else.
[00:13:08]  It's truly insane.
[00:13:10]  And by the way, I talked about all this in my recent interview with John Kiriaku.
[00:13:15]  And I'm also watching that there are a bunch of U.S. commandos apparently being flown to Azerbaijan and maybe to try to threaten Iran with some kind of like a ground invasion force or maybe helicopter insertion like Venezuela style.
[00:13:38]  And again, that sounds like a suicide mission.
[00:13:41]  If you send in 200 commandos or special forces units into Iran, you should plan a few hundred body bags because I don't think most of them are coming home.
[00:13:58]  And maybe that's Trump's plan is to send a bunch of soldiers in there and get them killed and then parade them all over U.S. television.
[00:14:05]  Look what Iran did.
[00:14:06]  They killed our soldiers.
[00:14:07]  We have to nuke them.
[00:14:09]  Maybe it's some kind of a bait situation to sacrifice the soldiers in order to get the public behind a bigger war.
[00:14:18]  Lindsey Graham would love that.
[00:14:21]  But since Iran has Chinese anti-stealth radar systems and very capable surface-to-air missiles that take out aircraft, you got to wonder how long could the U.S. actually fight from the air?
[00:14:40]  And I think the answer is not very long, actually.

=== Bait And Switch War Strategy (00:33) ===

[00:14:43]  Not very long.
[00:14:45]  So this should be really interesting to watch.
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