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F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash

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291 points Michelangelo11 | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 11:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.245s | source
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gherkinnn ◴[27 Aug 25 12:11 UTC] No.45038575[source]▶
The F35 has been a shit show for 15 years or more. So not only is it a disaster at the tactical and operational level, with the US holding the keys and being run by a cretin, it is now also a strategic blunder.

The French were right with their strategic autonomy, de Gaulle evidently prescient, and the various EU countries falling for the F35 would have been better off choosing the Rafale or Gripen.

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1. eptcyka ◴[27 Aug 25 18:53 UTC] No.45043509[source]▶
Rafale and Gripen don't hold a candle to the F35's capabilities, they're just a different class of aircraft. Not to say any one of the three is bad, but the EU currently just does not have it in them to have a viable competitor.