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The US also stated that they "tone them down 10%" when selling them to other countries.
by randunel 1y ago
The US also stated that they "tone them down 10%" when selling them to other countries.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y agoCite a source please.
- potatolicious 1y agoYou can literally just Google this, there are many sources. Literally the top of the Google results: [1] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/trump-boeing-stealth-fighter-planes-00242636 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/trump-boeing-stealt... [2] https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2025-03-21/trump-awards-boeing-contract-for-next-generation-f-47-aircraft https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2025-03-2... The exact transcript is here: [3] https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-defense-hegseth-oval-office-march-21-2025/ https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-... All of these are in the top-10 first results when you search for this.
- dunham 1y agoAll of those links appear to be discussing the F-47 and this thread is discussing the F-35.
- Delk 1y agoTo be fair, the exact sentence is "we like to tone them down about 10%", which suggests a more common practice rather than only a plan specifically for the F-47. Of course it's also a quote from Trump, so who knows how much of it is from his random sentence generator. Although I'd guess he's quoting another official or someone from the defence industry.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y ago10% of what? Are they 10% smaller?
- wuschel 1y agoThis is very common for export variants of a high end military products.