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Are we really that surprised? We all know the actual quality of russian weapons is usually far from what the russian advertised. That's not even including the infamous "Monkey Model" that's designated for export.

Beside Vietnam with a chinese threat looming over. I don't see the burmese (with their political crisis) or the malaysian having the money or be desperate enough to buy second hand russian assets from us. The deal also include hinds btw. The most likely buyer is vietnamese in my opinions but I...

I assume we will be selling this to the vietnamese because it says that we are thinking of selling it to another Rusky equipments operator in the region?

Turkey back in the program is a good thing for everyone. The JSF now becomes a lot cheaper. Thx guys.🇹🇷

What chestnut forgot is that we don't physically need to close the strait ourselves. Even the threat of closing the strait and sinking a ship is already enough to cause widespread disruption to the global supply chains. And bringing in others countries is precisely the point. The moment we...

most of the misinfo (fake news) about the JSF came from him. The guy is seriously the closest thing to an Alex Jones of the plane industry.

Pierre sprey is seriously a Douche.

Except we're not talking about ferrari we just use it as an example. F-35 are meant to be a global fighter not a Lockheed monopoly. F-35 are more like Hondas except its harder to get a licensing agreement on. Besides there's a new gen plane in the making from the US to the british Tempest and...

Ferraris are only expensive and hard to maintain because only Ferraris are the making the parts. If ferrari sub-contract their cars to every car company their prices will drop significantly. The US government knows this and why they give contracts out to almost everybody who is anybody in the...

I think the decisions are also political in nature. Macron might see the Rafale deals as an investment of some sort. Thinking in long term losing a few key techs (again don't know what it is the french are offering) which will be obsolete when the next gen franco-german plane comes out they can...

Technically you can still drive a ferrari everyday. Is just that the F-35 production lines are still in the nascent period. With the way the US keeps ramping up production and licensing up to other countries to create parts for the plane like the Turkish TAI company before the country opted out...

I always wonder what the frenchies are offering with the ToT considering one of the tech we wanted are AESA radar among other things. Or is Macron that desperate to sell the Rafale and try to undercut the Turkish influence here.

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good to be here 2 hope its better than the last one.

KKB being chased by drone in papua

Nice thread will be watching this. Won't contribute much though have like zero knowledge on the matters.

Should have gone with the hornet if the MoD wanted a twin engine fighters instead of the Rafales.