• PolandIsAStateOfMind
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    3 days ago

    In the meantime China added insult to injury developing Shenyang J-35 which both looks and is named incredibly similar to F-35, but it actually works good enough that PLAN will most likely order some for their carriers.

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      It’s worth keeping in mind that while F35 is an absolute failure as a weapon, it’s been a stellar success at doing what it’s actually meant to do, which is to soak up as much tax money as humanly possible.

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        Exactly, and it’s only a tip of the iceberg that got spilled up because they went too openly greedy with it.

        Also it remind me when Poland constructed a bog standard corvette, but it ended up taking 19 years, costed so much you could buy 3 comparable corvettes in German shipyard and was ultimately finished as huge but barely armed patrol boat.