qaeta

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[–] qaeta@lemmy.ca 80 points 16 hours ago (12 children)

Looks like you've got four nazi's so far who are cowardly even by nazi standards downvoting you.

[–] qaeta@lemmy.ca 13 points 18 hours ago

For a modern military, in a general sense, yes, the F35 is the best currently. Mostly due to it's software and sensor suite which have a much larger impact on mission performance. It's built to an assumption of US support, which means good runways and resilient supply lines. Russian fighters are out for the same reason US fighters should be out right now (can't trust the government).

Canada is looking for new fighters, where I think the Gripen is actually better than the F35 for our specific use case (almost entirely defensive, rough runways in arctic conditions that the F35 struggles with, need for lower maintenance requirements due to manpower and budget issues). The Swedes deal with the same conditions we need a fighter for, plus they offered a full tech transfer to revitalize our aerospace industry and help achieve autonomy for operation of the Gripen.

[–] qaeta@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Fewer than will if they continue to do nothing.

[–] qaeta@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Any day now... yep... aaaanyyyy daaaayyyy now....

[–] qaeta@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I'm on one for calling Trump a pedophile.

[–] qaeta@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Have you been paying like... literally any attention to US corpo activities lately? Fraud is not only not being punished, but actively rewarded, so long as you bend the knee to Trump, which Google has.