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Re:Belgian Air Force F-16 destroyed by fire during maintenance by _delirium on Sunday October 14, 2018 @09:49AM (#18212869)
US-designed, but partly Belgian-manufactured. These things are always political/economic horsetrading, and as part of the deal, Belgium got one of the F-16 production lines placed in Charleroi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting...
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Re:Belgian Air Force F-16 destroyed by fire during maintenance by ElBarto on Sunday October 14, 2018 @10:22AM (#18212999)
Well, when the news is all about security and Chinese hacks and untrustworthy hardware I find it strange to rely 100% on foreign hardware for one's airforce.

Europe isn't an American colony. If anything it should be the other way round.

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Re:Belgian Air Force F-16 destroyed by fire during maintenance by refurb on Sunday October 14, 2018 @11:31AM (#18213361)
Considering how little the EU spends on the military compared to the US, it shouldn’t be surprising at all.
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Re:Belgian Air Force F-16 destroyed by fire during maintenance by ElBarto on Sunday October 14, 2018 @11:33AM (#18213369)
That's a strawman to the point...
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