CDRMITTENS@sh.itjust.works to NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 9 months agoHOLY HELL!sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1314file-text
arrow-up1314imageHOLY HELL!sh.itjust.worksCDRMITTENS@sh.itjust.works to NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square50fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareJohnDClay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·9 months agoWhat stealth alternative would you have? Stealth costs a lot. It’s a steal compared to the f22.
minus-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-29 months agoF22 is not for export which makes it much lower volume product and so it has higher unit cost
minus-squareJohnDClay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·9 months agoPlus it’s been out of production for a decade.
minus-squareNegativeLookBehind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-29 months agodeleted by creator
minus-squareHootinNHollerin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoIt was a comment of whataboutism
minus-squareBeigeAgenda@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoThat’s the general feeling from people in allied countries that have been put on the F-35 program. Other fighters could have been a better match, instead they got the expensive Letherman.
What stealth alternative would you have? Stealth costs a lot. It’s a steal compared to the f22.
F22 is not for export which makes it much lower volume product and so it has higher unit cost
Plus it’s been out of production for a decade.
deleted by creator
It was a comment of whataboutism
That’s the general feeling from people in allied countries that have been put on the F-35 program.
Other fighters could have been a better match, instead they got the expensive Letherman.