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The f-35 has no peer, from a us perspective every dollar spent being ahead is a win.

Just something to point out to people who complain about the U.S. gifting stocks of vehicles to Ukraine. The U.S. was planning to get rid of them anyway.

the vast majority of materiel we've sent to ukraine thus far has been old pre-modernization stock, or older, modernized stock in the case of some of the abrams i believe. It's literally just shifting some budget to procurement to get us new stuff, while shipping some of our older kit to be used in battle, which is productive. There is almost no downside in us doing this, aside from the fact that we have to ship it to ukraine, which kinda sucks.

the F35 has been incredibly expensive thus far, but produced in significant numbers and fielded for a similar amount of time as something like the f16 it will completely absolve it's development costs over time. It's also important to remember that the f-35 is quite literally the most advanced air warfare platform that exists right now, which kind of follows the price tag.

90% of the complaints about the f35 on the internet have been "it bad at dog fighting" and "it expensive" and, that's about it. As for dog fighting, it's literally not designed to dogfight, so it should be no surprise that it's not very good at it.

I watched a Perun slideshow ages ago which at least touched on production / export of the F-35 and how economies of scale bring down per unit price significantly over time.

The US is planning for a new tank roundabout 2030. While right now it notionally is going to be an Abrams derivative

Are you referring to the M10 Booker or the M1E3? The M10 is it's own design, while the M1E3 (which should become the M1A3 on adoption) is a refresh of the Abrams, and it's not an either/or.

If you look up The Chieftain on Youtube, he's speculating the M1E3 will focus on integrating all of the add-on modules that have become standardized of the past couple of decades. This will likely reduce the weight of the tank from a whopping 72 tons to make it possible to address future threats while keeping the overall weight low enough to cross bridges.

Some people are speculating that the M1E3 will get an auto-loader, but the couple of tons those weigh is significantly more than a hyperactive 18yo, so we'll see how that works out

Yeah, this def looks like satire.

However, there are THOSE people out their, in the wild.

you'd hope so, but, i know some actual incurable tankies irl and this is how they talk.

"The Grayzone", Jimmy Dore, Scott Ritter, etc can seriously rot the brain.

How so? Genuinely curious why you say the Osorio is better?

My favourite line from any of the Grand Theft Auto games is from a radio ad for some movie that ends with "Rated PG for Patriotic Garbage"

As an American, American jingoism in films does make me laugh. Like we are the only ones who can save the world.

Does Russia have films like that?

Start from American movies, then add a bunch of historical rewriting and fighting Nazis everywhere and you're getting close to Russian level movies from what I've heard.

Well as s non american I feel it's quite simple : the USA has an incredible potent war machine, so if their citizens think they have an incredible army, then they are more or less quite correct.

Russians on the other hand just smokes copium and have fever dreams.

You're not wrong. Americans have a lot of "America fuck yeah!" energy going on, the difference really would be that when we break from that mentality and start going "what the fuck America?" we don't get arrested and put in jail or forcibly conscripted into a war we didn't ask for.

From what I can tell, America has better access to alternative viewpoints and the ability to express them largely without fear.

Defenetly not germany. Last few times they were like that, the world stamped it out.

Happy cake day!

More like the other 90% were pocketed on every step between blueprint table and front.

It's 4chan, so who knows. I was assuming it was propaganda, or a Tankie true believer.

True. We saw an F-22 Raptor at an air show a few years ago, and it was mind-blowing. I didn't know that a jet could do the things it was doing. I didn't even know it was possible according to the laws of physics. The thing flies like a UFO, flying saucer.

"As a black man Canadian...."