• Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
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    16 days ago

    If I remember correctly, Swedish fighter planes need just a single truck in the field or so for maintenance, and can take off and land on extremely short and bad runways. They are meant for countries that are mostly forest, such as Sweden or Canada.

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      15 days ago

      Ummm but achtually this 4 billion dollar us plane can land vertically. Its totally worth it, i swear, please spend fourth of your defence budget on one plane

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    16 days ago

    Please correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Sweden a USAian cuck? Don’t they love the US?

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      16 days ago

      Since when? If they were, they had probably joined NATO long ago and bought US weapons rather than producing weapons.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      15 days ago

      Sweden, like France, has an arms industry that is largely entirely independent from the US arms industry.

      If you’re talking about the fact that they joined NATO: that happened because Russia has become overtly expansionist. And the US regime is honestly going to effectively withdraw the US from NATO, even if official withdraw is technically legally blocked at the moment.