TL;DR: we don’t know how much we’ll pay for them and when we’ll get them. But that’s OK because they don’t work all that well anyway.
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Not really news. Anyone who follows military technology knows that the F-35 is a hanger queen. AFAIK, the percentage of aircraft that are „fully mission capable“ has never exceeded 50%, and squadrons have only reached that high by stripping one plane to fix the next.
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TL;DR: we don’t know how much we’ll pay for them and when we’ll get them. But that’s OK because they don’t work all that well anyway.
Not really news. Anyone who follows military technology knows that the F-35 is a hanger queen. AFAIK, the percentage of aircraft that are „fully mission capable“ has never exceeded 50%, and squadrons have only reached that high by stripping one plane to fix the next.
And again: [The F-35 is the wrong solution for Switzerland](https://x.com/brad_ch13/status/2054558449581592753)