Ottawa is weighing up benefits of Swedish fighter jets over the Lockheed Martin aircraft.
      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        4 months ago

        If you want a laugh, go look up the photos Iran doctored up for this bit of propaganda. I remember one had an F35 with cockpit the size of a school bus on it. Another had the tail section on backwards. Probably AI slop, but fake photos to be sure.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        48·
        4 months ago

        There have been no confirmed downings of F-35’s.

        Several “oops this plane just fell off the flight deck, oh well, shit happens” articles in recent memory. A great way to explain why the Navy is suddenly down a vehicle without having to explain to anyone in the general public what happened.

        I wouldn’t lean on foreign propaganda any more than I would domestic propaganda.

        Americans are putting these jets into service and a surprising number of them are failing.

        Whether Iran/Yemen have successfully struck any of them or the Navy can’t get them on and off the flight deck reliably is almost a moot point. A downed plane is a downed plane.

        • remon@ani.socialEnglish
          5·
          4 months ago

          Several “oops this plane just fell off the flight deck, oh well, shit happens”

          Those were F/A-18s.

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            4 months ago

            Is this a contest to crash the most aircraft?

            Because my man, the GOAT, John “New Plane” McCain would like to have a word.

        • bobgobbler@lemmy.zipEnglish
          31·
          4 months ago

          Oh so this is the part where we provide no sources to our claim. Then claim the sources are unreliable!