For years, Americans without healthcare have been able to reassure themselves that although they may be denied life-saving cancer treatment, at least their country had fighter jets and aircraft carriers that could reduce cities to rubble.
  • TribblesBestFriendOP
    32·
    29 days ago

    I’m wondering if the F-35 isn’t like the AI bubble, a con by companies to swindle public money

    • AGM@lemmy.ca
      341·
      29 days ago

      Just the F-35s? The entire defense industry is about swindling public money. That’s why they spend hundreds of millions per year on lobbying and political influence in the US.

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
    27·
    29 days ago

    The USS Gerald R. Ford was officially taken out by a “laundry fire”, and to make matters worse, Iran is claiming to have struck the USS Abraham Lincoln, forcing that carrier to also withdraw.

    In a country of misinformation like the USA who knows what to believe.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      28 days ago

      There’s a LOT of angry US troops who were minding their business keeping the peace when suddenly, Trump illegally told them to go to War - no Congress, no balance of powers.

      Maybe Iranians did it. Maybe US soldiers elected to accidentally cause a accident forcing their battleships to leave.

      • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        28 days ago

        I have to keep correcting this. There’s nothing illegal (in US law) about the executive branch unilaterally attacking another country. Congress has been shifting authority over to the Executive for decades, and presidents have been doing it for the last few decades at least. (See Obama’s drone strikes)

        The president is required by law to notify Congress within 90 days and request additional funding.

        It’s Immoral and a tremendously bad idea to let any one person decide to kill hundreds of people, but in this case it’s not illegal.

  • kbal@fedia.io
    133·
    29 days ago

    an anti-establishment, working class perspective

    It’s interesting to see the proliferation of these “anti-imperialist” propaganda mills seemingly imitating the successful model of grift made famous by the alt right. They’ve nothing to say about socialism, but spend all their energy on emotional appeals to get people focusing on how bad the bad guys are based on the most attention-grabbing news headlines they can find or invent. It’s so carefully designed to provoke dissent, distrust, and polarization with only the barest pretense of being about anything more substantial or constructive.

    This one doesn’t have much to do with Canada. Even those of us who aren’t professional military analysts should probably find better sources to inform our opinions on the martial capabilities of different kinds of ridiculously expensive airplanes.

  • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
    8·
    28 days ago

    Yes, they more or less are are, to radar. The thumbnail is of an infrared image. If you’re close up enough to do this and prepared they can still be shot down.

    The trick is just getting that to happen. Consider how many F-35s right above them the Iranians haven’t shot down.

    • Hathaway@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      28 days ago

      Aircraft aren’t uniformly hot like that in a FLIR image either. So, take that how you want.

      Not to say there haven’t been hits, the US confirmed it, it just certainly didn’t look like this.

    • FlexibleToast@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      28 days ago

      They’re not even the same role. I know nations are making that trade. I think replacing a multirole jet with an interceptor says more about your priorities changing than the weapon platforms themselves. With the threat of a Russian invasion it makes sense to switch priorities to affordable interceptors.