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Surely the plague that fucks your brain and cardiovascular system had nothing to do with the shortage of healthy bodies available to join the military!Cao Ni Ma posted:Its more than not whats going to happen but at the same time a part of me is saying that Gen Z is going to rather starve to death than join the military All the more reason to get rid of compulsory education! When 12 year olds go through 6 years of work, they'll desperately sign up to escape the literal mines! Or we can bring back the draft when the US starts poo poo over Taiwan, I dunno.
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literally using the defense budget on hookers
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crepeface posted:https://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-scientist-allegations-tricked-contractor-into-hiring-sex-worker-2022-7 good
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RIP Gord, a true American hero. o7
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unquestionably a more valuable and moral use of dod budget than anything actually on the books
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using money ear marked for killing people to make more people instead
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crepeface posted:https://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-scientist-allegations-tricked-contractor-into-hiring-sex-worker-2022-7 C'mon man, that is just a bit from idiocracy.
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https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-state-dept-approves-potential-sale-f-35-aircraft-munitions-germany-2022-07-28/quote:reuters.com the 240 million dollar plane
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Forceholy posted:Surely the plague that fucks your brain and cardiovascular system had nothing to do with the shortage of healthy bodies available to join the military! This is why farm kids all join up.
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Danann posted:https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-state-dept-approves-potential-sale-f-35-aircraft-munitions-germany-2022-07-28/ The F22 which is actually good cost $120 million and was cancelled for being too expensive
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Danann posted:https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-state-dept-approves-potential-sale-f-35-aircraft-munitions-germany-2022-07-28/ it’s very kind of Germany to order exactly 35 of the F-35
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Danann posted:https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-state-dept-approves-potential-sale-f-35-aircraft-munitions-germany-2022-07-28/ is germany's collapsing economy going to be able to afford these
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hmmmm what is more important pensions for 500 families or a single fighter plane. someone help me my economy is dying
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crepeface posted:is germany's collapsing economy going to be able to afford these what's a few imf loans between friends
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by paying street mafia instead of american boondoggles you might actually get some actual protection from the former lol
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evilpicard posted:The F22 which is actually good cost $120 million and was cancelled for being too expensive The f22 is too good to export so there's no customers
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The F22 is pretty good when it is flying, nothing can really even come close to being able to shoot it down without F22 pilot making a big error. But it has a tiny problem in that it is never flying. It's also a little insurance policy against the F35, if Australia or the UK or whoever elects a socialist to power and resists the CIA coup then the F22 can easily destroy all their F35s in a week or two. Make sure you don't elect the wrong person. Pryor on Fire has issued a correction as of 02:54 on Jul 29, 2022 |
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Also all the production lines for the airframe and engines were shuttered over a decade ago
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President Xi, fire when ready
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Also they were forced to destroy their tools and blueprints lol
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A few years ago the government was trying to cold start production of parts because they realized they hosed up but I don't think it ever actually happened
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Yeah, and since then the US has been forced to cannibalize parts for them, and the combat readiness rate for the remainder of the fleet is pretty abysmal. There just aren’t enough of them in one place to make much of a difference.
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Ardennes posted:Yeah, and since then the US has been forced to cannibalize parts for them, and the combat readiness rate for the remainder of the fleet is pretty abysmal. There just aren’t enough of them in one place to make much of a difference. and the USAF still left some to get hit by a hurricane in florida despite at least days of advance warning lmao
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Palladium posted:and the USAF still left some to get hit by a hurricane in florida despite at least days of advance warning lmao Yeah and , it sounds like the F-22 was given minimum support and they have constant issues with having enough maintained personnel. The USAF one way or another has been trying to kill the program as fast as possible. Basically, enough are kept around as symbolic gestures (we are sending a grand total of 6 to Poland).
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Ardennes posted:Yeah, and since then the US has been forced to cannibalize parts for them, and the combat readiness rate for the remainder of the fleet is pretty abysmal. There just aren’t enough of them in one place to make much of a difference. 50% readiness rate.
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Weka posted:50% readiness rate. I believe of one combat mission profile, and that is of the remainder of the fleet, which is far less than what were built.
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Pryor on Fire posted:The F22 is pretty good when it is flying, nothing can really even come close to being able to shoot it down without F22 pilot making a big error. But it has a tiny problem in that it is never flying. lol if you think australia it would mount any kind of resistance instead of instantly rolling over from some arcane bylaw from even token appearance of independence
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Also, yeah the F-22 is a better fighter but not THAT much better.
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why did they scrap everything for the f-22 if its so good, its super expensive so its not like the MIC wasn't wettings its beak. what gives!
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lobster shirt posted:why did they scrap everything for the f-22 lobster shirt posted:its so good
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Yeah I guess they can't sell a zillion expensive fixes and upgrades for it if it actually just works well. The F-35 being a broken messy shitheap that needs to come in 3 flavors for each branch is a feature.
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lobster shirt posted:why did they scrap everything for the f-22 if its so good, its super expensive so its not like the MIC wasn't wettings its beak. what gives! I guess since the F-35 program got even more expensive you'll have to increase your claimed capabilities accordingly? Sure it's the most expensive plane ever, but it can do all the jobs, ALL THE JOBS.
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lobster shirt posted:why did they scrap everything for the f-22 if its so good, its super expensive so its not like the MIC wasn't wettings its beak. what gives! The f35 has a bunch of variants and can be exported all around the globe which means big dollars for the MIC. The f22 cannot be exported to other countries, it is an America only airplane. If America is not buying them, people aren't getting paid for them. The initial contracts were met and it was time to move on to profitable endeavours.
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lobster shirt posted:why did they scrap everything for the f-22 if its so good, its super expensive so its not like the MIC wasn't wettings its beak. what gives! F-35 was supposed to be the less expensive alternative to the F-22. It didn’t turn out that way.
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Bar Crow posted:F-35 was supposed to be the less expensive alternative to the F-22. It didn’t turn out that way. that doesn't make any sense it's 13 extra Fs. You gotta pay for that
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