This is quite correct, France left the Eurofighter project for this very reason and produced the Rafale instead, which despite it's late start was already flying combat missions before the EF2000 (now renamed Typhoon due to the embarrassing fact the year 2000 had long come and gone) even entered service. While it's hard to say the Rafale is the better plane (unless you want it operating of an aircraft carrier ofc) it's hard to say it's notably worse either.
Because if we did then the Americans would get to dictate a lot of it and it would result in everyone having to use a cosmic level disaster like the Bradley xD
Yeah, the A-10 is basically still in service because the people who decide what stays in service still have their heads full of the A-10 hype from the cold war when they were touted as the amazeballs solution to 10,000+ Soviet tanks rolling westwards. In fact it's now estimated that over half of the kills attributed to the A-10s in Desert Storm were actually scored by the F-111 but those in charge refused to believe the A-10 wasn't as effective as expected.
In all fairness, Stalin did try first to convince France and Britain to make a pact with the USSR in forming a united front against Hitler's rising Germany, we refused, so instead he made a pact with Hitler in order to delay the inevitable war with Germany and buy time to prepare.
For anyone wondering what the actual story is here, the carrier currently in service needs a couple of parts that have a long lead time, so rather than leave those systems inoperable while the parts are made/delivered the RN is replacing them with the parts from the carrier in drydock. That carrier will then receive the new parts when they arrive, it's been standard practice for the RN for over 400 years.
They always have, they need to feed the rich.
I wonder if that's because they've been moved away or just used up!
'It would have been unthinkable before'Russian propagandists tell Germany it should stop sending supplies to Ukraine because it's going to need those supplies because Poland plans to invade Germany
No one believed these propagandists when they claimed over and over again that Poland is going to invade Ukraine, so they now they've switched tactic and claim its Germany that will be invaded. These people are masterminds! 5D chess!
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