this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
4 points (100.0% liked)

Anime Titties

5 readers
1 users here now

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
kakise@mlem.a-smol-cat.fr
4
France challenges US defense industry in Middle East as Rafale fighter jet sales outshine F-35 (www.al-monitor.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Mehddit@mlem.a-smol-cat.fr to c/anime_titties@mlem.a-smol-cat.fr
1 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Middle East states have lined up to buy the French warplane over rival US-made F-35s.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Followupquestion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Many countries aren’t trusted enough by the US in particular to be allowed F-35 purchasing. Turkey, wayward NATO ally that it is, got booted from the F-35 program because they were also buying Russian air defense systems (S-400 IIRC), and the US didn’t want to hand over a Gen 5 stealth jet to an S-400 operator which would give Russia precise data on its radar signature.