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Originally Posted by FlashDrive
Some disagree on our purchase of 72 of these, costing $20 Billion Dollars.
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I don't get it?
The F35 is a first strike platform as distinct from a defensive one..
Name me one country we should contemplate striking, and why?
If we really wanted to defend our shores, you could do that for several orders of magnitude less money with something like the S400 defence system.
Name me one potential aggressor that has aircraft capable of avoiding the S400 system?
China? ... our biggest trading partner?
What could they possibly hope to gain by use of force that they aren't prepared to buy as they are currently doing?
Russia? ... isn't expansionist, isn't threatening us and spends its defence budget overwhelmingly on... errrmm ..
defence
I could think of 100 better ways to spend $20 billion.... you know, like transport infrastructure, education, health care, energy security, FTTN, mixed lollies, a Staffy proof dog chew toy, etc, etc.
~2c