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    From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 19 02:30:18 2024
    XPost: alt.russian.z1, talk.politics.misc, alt.politics

    <https://tinyurl.com/22t3yllr> theepochtimes.com

    .. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the F-35 revealed
    some shocking statistics on just how unready hundreds of billions of
    dollars worth of F-35s are to provide actual combat power. In fact, the
    report indicated that only 15 to 30 percent of F-35s may be capable of
    combat ..

    Even for someone who is an F-35 realist, the results are shocking. Not
    only is the F-35 fleet's full mission capable rate in the neighborhood
    of 30 percent .. , the full mission capable rate of the Marine Corps'
    F-35B was a miserable 15.5 percent in March 2023 .. This brings us back
    to the question of just how many of the over 600 F-35s delivered to the
    U.S. military can provide significant, non-trivial combat ability. The
    answer is we really don't know ..



    <https://tinyurl.com/yvpm2gwh>

    The American navy is losing control over the high seas ..

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