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mcv on June 30, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight

Shame. The Gripen sounds a lot more like the right plane for smaller NATO air forces. Not the best at anything, but decent at everything, and for a cost more befitting our economic situation.

The Dutch air force is going to be reduced to about 30 F-35s. We've always had about 100 fighters, but the F-35 looks like it's going to be the end of the Dutch air force.

protomyth on June 30, 2015 [–]

The Gripen is getting some love in South America, but the politics of who builds what did make for some problems.

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