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I'm all for having Super Tucanos available for cheap counterinsurgency operations, but let's be real — they are not a strategic deterrent to Russia or China, an

I'm all for having Super Tucanos available for cheap counterinsurgency operations, but let's be real — they are not a strategic deterrent to Russia or China, and that matters. Certainly we should not be blowing up pickup trucks with F-35s and F-22s, but we absolutely do need stealthy fast smart planes available in a pinch.

ceejayoz 6y ago
> we absolutely do need stealthy fast smart planes available in a pinch... Sure! The point is more that maybe we don't need 2,456 of them, and that dropping that to, say, 2,000 might get us a couple thousand much cheaper planes for more day-to-day usage in the conflicts we're regularly engaging in too.