• ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    I personally think that’s why Ukraine hasn’t been given F35s, because the US knows it would be a pr disaster for it’s highly publicized, peer combat-untested 80 million dollar wunderwaffe to eat an S-3000 missile that ‘only’ cost a million to make.

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      11 months ago

      also, if russian federation could salvage it and study more efficient ways to combat then, so us would be forced to retrofit lots of units