It isn’t unpatriotic to admit quantity is a large part of American strategy. I hope people don’t take offence when shortcomings are highlighted.

A lot of US military tech is actually developed in Europe and European countries have equivalent and in some regards better tech. The issue is most EU countries have enough for themselves, not enough to share. As the US is very active globally with military operations on a larger scale they are more prepared to divert resources.

American submarines are detectable by UK and French submarines yet US can’t detect theirs. Although it is rather stupid when nuclear submarines play chicken with each other not wanting to change course and admit they could see the other. It wasn’t major news at the time but nuclear submarines actually made contact with each other physically, both carrying multiple nuclear warheads along with being nuclear powered. The fact that they both slowed to a crawl but they both refused to change directions is just hilarious and idiotic. Oh that was submarines from countries that are allies.