• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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      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.

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      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.

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          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.

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        4 months ago

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

        Those were F/A-18s.

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