• sexywheat [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    “The Trump administration should bear in mind we’ve been flying the F-35 for 18 years and we still can’t maintain it, keep its stealth skin intact or shoot its gun straight,” Williams said in a statement.

    Lol. Lmao.

  • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I remember being a kid born in burgerland and thinking that the F35 was the coolest shit ever.

    Finding it out to be garbage is a pretty good metaphor for my radicalization journey and current view of the US

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    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.

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    Good thing Canada wants to buy a bunch, basically a parallel upgrade for the constantly breaking down F/18 jets 😂

    (I do not condone the purchase, just think it’s funny in a sad waste of money way)