• vivendi@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    Nah they’re kinda shit actually

    Like, it’s only “cool” in the sense wünderwaffen is cool. Yet, wünderwaffen costed Nazis the war, and it’s the same tale again

    Sorry but this shit is riling up lost airframes to accidents without an active war and under perfect maintenance, I don’t think it’s going to hold steady in a war AT ALL

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      3 days ago

      It is the most advanced fighter in the world, by far. The Saab jets aren’t really close and would lose pretty much every simulated encounter with them by a few hundred miles.

      But that doesn’t make them good for the world. Still, their technical ability should be ignored only at your own peril. It’s a stupid thing to not acknowledge the effectiveness of an enemy weapon. But it is now an enemy weapon for much of the world that were former allies.

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        I AM acknowledging the fact that they’re advanced, however, just like thay French artillery system in Ukraine, you will often see “cool shit” wünderwaffen shit the bed in actual combat

        Pavement princess vs. workhorse, tale as old as time