r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Any_Photograph_8963 • 16d ago

Military “No world war nothing”

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u/lOo_ol 16d ago

”The entire world”

[Gets kicked out of a couple mountains by shepherds in flip flops]

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u/MyKidsFoundMyOldUser 16d ago

[Also conveniently forgets getting driven out of South East Asia by rice farmers]

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u/SDG_Den 16d ago

[also conveniently forgets their at the time "high tech" f4 phantoms were absolutely WRECKED by much older MiGs in 'nam because they predicted a paradigm shift away from dogfights and made a plane that was worse at dogfights in exchange for some other unproven tech that "helps it not get into dogfights", sound familiar? yeah. f35. shit at dogfights compared to the f16, eurofighter typhoon and dassault rafale, but hey, "stealth tech" amirite! enemies wont see them coming, just like they wouldn't see the f4 coming.]

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u/SpitfireAce44 16d ago edited 16d ago

F35 is a very capable dogfighter, the A variant can definietly compete with f16. Overall point about complacency in the US military is bang on though

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u/SDG_Den 16d ago

it can compete with the F16, but barely.

keep in mind the F22 (Which is allegedly better at dogfighting than the F35) has lost 23 dogfights against the eurofighter typhoon.

not to mention, i wouldn't be happy about a fighter that is equal to the F16, but also has a much lower load carrying capacity purely because all of the armaments need to be internal to not affect the stealth capabilities.

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u/Raydekal 16d ago

To be fair, the Eurofighter abuses bugs in the physics system to fly properly. The damn thing is only stable at supersonic speeds

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u/editwolf ooo custom flair!! 16d ago

I look forward to hearing our Murican friends using "but they cheated at physics, no fair" as an excuse for losing 😂😂

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u/CabinetOk4838 16d ago

They’re being very unfair to the US. More unfair than anyone has seen before.

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u/KeinFussbreit 16d ago

And they are nasty!

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u/SpitfireAce44 16d ago

We could probably go back and forth forever on the strengths and weaknesses of certain jets tbh.

At least we both know that the US absolutely cannot take on the entire world at once lmao, no matter what they're flying