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I'm not familiar with this. Can you share a source that explains more?

• bobthepanda 4y ago
  The thinking is that NATO should have some level of equipment commonality so that people can work together, communicate together, use a different country’s equipment in a pinch, etc. with minimal training. The Ukranians are using Western equipment but they had to be trained to use it first, and that took weeks if not months. That’s precious time in the kind of war involving all of NATO. I don’t know that the F-35 is the only plane currently meeting requirements, if only because that would represent a bottleneck and single point of failure.
  • amalgamated_inc 4y ago
    The Eurofighter is not the same type of jet as the F-35. It can't deliver nuclear weapons, for example. AFAIK there is no other 5th gen platform for delivering those available to western countries. I think I got the original idea of the "requirement" from this article: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44740/germany-has-chosen-the-f-35-as-its-future-nuclear-strike-fighter https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44740/germany-has-chos... But I might've misread it, this might only apply to that particular sale to Germany.