• PolandIsAStateOfMind
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    11 months ago

    Ask them about the production ability of planes and weapons for them. 200 F-35 is little below of 1/4th of entire amount ever produced and probably around half of currently operative ones.

    If US actually did that it would be the incredible blunder for them, those losses would left US Air Force crippled for years.

    • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      only if the F35 is more dangerous to the enemy than it is to the pilots. which is not clear to me.

      losing half their F35s could actually improve the US air force…

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      11 months ago

      I would bet money that US does not have the logistics capability to actually field 200 F35s right now. And I also think that it’s extremely likely that the first time it engages Russian air defences, it’ll go down in flames. There’s a reason US and Israel don’t want to operate them anywhere close to Russian air defences in Syria.