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Just wait till the F-16 sorties start.
You won't be able to swing a cat in here without hitting a whining tankie symp.
Oh no be careful, they might start posting gifs and emojis in response to you, thus nullifying any valid argument you might have!
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Echo chamber lifestyle devoid of geopolitical facts must be nice copium...
Except they were the ones that created Lemmy in the first place so they could live in their own little echo chamber so if anyone's guilty of running away to hide from criticism it's them not the general public. You know because most people don't think communism is great. Mostly because they either saw it, learned about it, or lived through it.
Communists didn't choose to move to our own spaces, we had to because we were systematically banned from others.
Funny how people who say this inevitably did none of these things.
Eh, I'm here to relax and have fun.
Not be told I'm a piece of shit who deserves to be executed because I had the audacity to be born every ten minutes.
Unfortunately startrek.website is still running 18, so I'm stuck with playing whack-a-mole
...and lemmy.ml as well. It's tanky breading season out here.
The same F-16s that were outclassed by the J-17 in recent military exercises?
Pakistani pilots are on record saying the F-16 is worse in basically every way compared to a design China considers to be "budget" and "outdated."
Let's pretend for a minute that it is actually better. Russia doesn't field the J-17, so it doesn't matter.
Also, there's the airframe and then there are the missiles you put on it. Depending on what these F-16 load up with can make a whole lot of difference.
I doubt they'll be doing much dogfighting. The challenge will be to get in the air, fire off missiles, and land back without getting shot down.
Edit: Oh and another thing that makes a lot of difference is radar assets. I bet those F-16s are going to get extended eyes and ears thanks to NATO AWACS flying high but within NATO borders.
China recognizes that the J-17 is outclassed by the Su-34, so it sort of does matter...
Do you mean the J-17 which was jointly developed by Pakistan and China. Who have a vested interest in trying to sell the J-17 to other parts of the world… if so then yes that very same plane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAC/PAC_JF-17_Thunder
The J-17 was designed for the Pakistan Air Force. Any other operators (Myanmar, Nigeria?) are operators of convenience.
I see, so the Pakistani Airforce which commissioned the design and production of the J-17 reports that it is superior to the F-16…
Whatever helps the copium taste better I suppose.
The F-16 was already 30 years old by the time the J-17 was introduced.
And yet it would still have been cheaper to send Ukraine new J-17s than used F-16s.
Yeah that's just a flat out lie mate lmao
Uh source?
JF-17 is a multirole attack aircraft, F-16 is a multiple air superiority fighter.
PAF has been very adamant that nothing they have tried compares to the F-16 in performance. Their last air skirmish was an F-16 that shot down an IAF MiG-21 in 2019. Even the J-10s they recently bought are still considered inferior.
The real joke here is expecting an F-16 to actually reach Ukraine lmao. Pakistan had to basically play double agent to convince the USA to even open F-16 sales. There's a 0% chance they're going to give Ukraine F-16s for free, or even let them be leased from other countries.
Meanwhile Ukraine unveils it's f-16
New issue of Air Force Monthly lol
The F-16 was already 30 years old by the time the J-17 was introduced.
Newer doesn't inherently mean better.
Didn’t say it did.