F-35

Reminder.

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More like a fairly-competent engineer, whose theories on design priorities in fighter aircraft were proven wrong in the 80's, who continues to use his involvement designing the very aircraft he criticized to continue to push his beliefs concerning how fighters should be designed and utilized.

This is AK-47 is STG-44 clone tier

If the US just copied the F-35 from slavshit, why hasn't Russia been capable of developing a good fighter since the early 80s?

i dislike it because it's a symbol of aviation, my hobby, becoming more homogeneous and boring. i can't bring myself to the intellectual dishonesty to pretend it's a bad tool, but it's disappointing to see a variety of interesting aircraft replaced by a single aircraft. if they were to operate concurrently it wouldn't be so bad, i didn't mind the f-35 when i was first introduced to it - but as it becomes a reality that it's going to displace so many other types, it's just tiring.

>the us military will stop making better stuff
It has.

>Well, complaining on the internet is literally the most effective weapon Russia still has.

Believe it or not, this is literally the case.

Troll factories are one of the "soft" ways to effect other societies if they can make it subtly work, in addition to their own (it's actually normal russians who are the main victims of fake news, propaganda and online trolling, inside their own country, since early 2000s).

Compared to modern weapons which they cannot afford in large scale, trolling/hacking/etc. costs next to nothing but it has a small chance to affect people's view of some subjects.

They know they will lose a war against NATO, but are smart enough to know that western countries have a very rigid division for war and peace - thus you see all kinds "grey area" action that NATO will not respond to with military force. These days the end result is that western countries have increased similar activity in response, very ironic!

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>muh troll factories
Retard American government buys up entire media companies in other countries to troll with. They even restarted RFE the cold war propaganda joke outlet, to counter the "racist" Hungarian government.

>muh whataboutism

What is your opinion on the russian troll factories and the degeneracy they spread inside Russia?

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While weight issues and poor management set the program back several years early on, the part that's actually taken the longest to develop has been the software, which is still ongoing.

So, I'm not as optimistic regarding your counterfactual.