Man, I hope Germany gets out of their deal.
Yeah honestly it’s pretty clear that nobody in the government right now understands how much of a watershed moment this is. We used to build the best shit, period. Now we build the best shit, except we’re fickle as fuck and the shit is also so complicated that there’s no feasible way to determine if we stuffed a kill switch in there somewhere.
You don’t need a kill switch. If you’re flying F35 and the US decides to cut you off, you won’t get replacement parts. Some repairs are only available in the US, so your fancy bird won’t fly much longer
Inshittifination-building.
To be fair, EF2k is one sexy plane, and you wouldn’t want stealth when flying such a beauty. When you’ve got it, flaunt it.
Don’t like the Typhoon’s air-intakes, the Rafale looks better (just ignore the fixed refueling probe).
now just figure out how to strap euromissile to it and put euronuke in that