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Re:US Army scraps $1B Iron Dome project after Israel refuses... by xeromal on Saturday March 07, 2020 @05:57PM (#22514844)
Kind of a sweet spot to be in. We sell you these fancy jets and if you decide to invade us, we flip a switch and they fall out of the sky. lol
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Re:US Army scraps $1B Iron Dome project after Israel refuses... by meirdavis on Sunday March 08, 2020 @04:48AM (#22517042)
More like if you decide to do a mission that we don't like we won't let you start the aircraft. The F-35s call home all the time to the US.
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Re:US Army scraps $1B Iron Dome project after Israel refuses... by animalnewbie on Sunday March 08, 2020 @05:57AM (#22517257)
How true is that for other countries' aircrafts? I'm somewhat skeptical of your claim to be honest, seems like a easy decision to not buy at all- there is no knowing ehat teams would form in the kind of war that would need these aircrafts at full scale.
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Re:US Army scraps $1B Iron Dome project after Israel refuses... by sdinsn on Sunday March 08, 2020 @03:17PM (#22519925)
They don't "call home", they just "call out"- American jets are designed to work alongside allied air defense systems in order to prevent accidents.
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