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siegecrossbow said:

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Especially from a super moderator.. I thought there was a general consensus members would be toning down the vulgar language.

What happened with using a trusty quote like “smelling one’s own fart” or just saying they are delusional.

tphuang said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1942699568782586362

is there something I am not understanding here? You have a final assembly line already and you choose to shut it down and lose all your workers who are trained on this rather than just placing minimal orders required to keep the lines open until the next project is ready?

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The UK MOD mades one stupid decision after another, they are well known for it. Which other MOD/Airforce in the world would retire the T1 Typhoons. None. Only the UK. That is how silly the MOD is. Those airframes can perform basic air defence and monitoring duties, provide training hours for pilots but the UK insists on drawing them down even though they have only used up 2/5 of it airframe flyging hours.

Madness...

I also don't understand their claim of how Eurofighters can't be upgraded and you have to buy new ones with the upgrades baked in. Sounds like nonsense to me.

Maybe the UK government doesn’t have the money?

gelgoog said:

I also don't understand their claim of how Eurofighters can't be upgraded and you have to buy new ones with the upgrades baked in. Sounds like nonsense to me.

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Upgrade costs comparable money to new fighter, but you don't get your full production chain working, and get a worse airframe (hours, later batch changes&solving baby deceases). In case of Typhoon T1, it also means unreasonable per hour costs, which kills AD/training justification.

Sort of Su-27sm2 v Su-35s situation. Or, in Chinese case, first batches of J-15Ts.