Not only is it the most expensive fighter jet they could buy anywhere in the world, not only does it repeatedly crash,
You can’t repair it yourself.
You have to get engineers flown from the USA for repairs because there’s secret tech in it that you are not allowed to open yourself.
What a fucking piece of shit plane, I sincerely think it was created just to see who is still licking the US’ boots to this day.
Truly the iPhone of military jets
Edit: as an aside, are there similar collections of fails for other USian Wunderwaffe? Javelins, A-10s, etc?
F15
*Record scratch*
*Freeze frame*
yep, that’s me (queue Baba O’Reilly)
This is fun, thanks
Credit where credit due, McDonnell Douglas-made F-15 is a great design. Overrated as fuck, but still one of the greatest design of its time. They’re reasons why the F-15C is the standard when judging the performance of newer 4th generation fighter.
Then Boeing took over MD, and they butcher the design to hell.
F-104 Starfighter, C-5 FRED, SR-71…Hell, I would argue that any jet with Lockheed in its name is the iPhone of military jets.
For Tanks, you get those with Shillelagh missile systems. M551 Sheridan and M60A2 Starship came to mind.
Since you brought up Javelin. I remember reading that, in perfect training condition, the hit rate of the missile (no, not the KILL rate, the HIT rate) is less than 19%, which would be even lower in combat condition. Meanwhile, each Javelin cost about 1/5 of a fully-modernized T-72B3.
Which mean, it cost just as much to HIT a T-72B3 with a Javelin as to make a whole T-72B3, which kinda defeat the attractiveness of ATGM to begin with.
Okay what the shit. I remember when all the news (including some of the Russian official news) were wanking that fucking thing
It’s still a big problem for Russian military, consider how tank-heavy their army are. All I’m saying is that it’s not a game-changer as fuck tons of western media claim it to be.