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HN is fascinated with bashing this aircraft.
by whalesalad 6y ago
HN is fascinated with bashing this aircraft.
- the-dude 6y agoThe F35 is an employment program, not an aircraft.
- jp555 6y agoAlso forces adversaries to divert money into counter-F35 activates (or copying the f-35), and this is also a type of geopolitical weapon.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoThese are the worst broken windows. So much waste for so little gain.
- the-dude 6y agoStarwars worked really well.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y agoWe can't be losing talent to China/EU/Russia. So the bureaucracy feeds the bureaucracy.
- woeirua 6y agoPlease do tell that to the pilots who are flying the F35.
- offtop5 6y agoHmm, I feel like the trillion or so spent on this expensive military flex would be better used to solve homelessness. The whole thing doesn't make much sense, what is this for ? Why are we still acting like we might need to fight Russia or something. Even if you are imagining WW3 I reckon human pilots will be obsolete by then. A drone would be able to fly faster and react quicker
- stuff4ben 6y agoyou haven't been keeping up then. Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, are all state actors with significant interests in knocking the United States off its pedestal. Specifically China and its recent posturing in the South China Sea. While I agree in principle that the F35 has largely been a waste of taxpayer money, to be ignorant of military threats to our nation is not the wisest strategy.
- the-dude 6y ago> threats to our nation Is the South China Sea already part of the US? You meant to say : our nations economic interests.
- gherkinnn 6y agoOf course. Has it ever been any different?
- syops 6y agoNone of those nations are military threats to the United States in the sense that they can realistically threaten an invasion or takeover of the United States. Those nations are threats to various interests of ours and some pose economic threats to our position and interests. As the world enters into a new multi-polar reality we need to reassess our views of what a ‘threat’ is. The Pax Americana is coming to an end. Soon we as a nation will recognize that we longer have the resources to impose our will wherever we desire.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 6y agoIt's not only about US soil, it's also about allies like Japan, SK, Taiwan, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore. They'd all be threatened. And why is it always described as US imposing it's will? Every Democratic govt on the planet shares mostly overlapping interests with every other Democracy. Most work together most of the time.
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- w-j-w 6y agoIt's not so much the aircraft itself as the industrial military complex it represents.