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[โ€“] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly, Swedish fighter planes need just a single truck in the field or so for maintenance, and can take off and land on extremely short and bad runways. They are meant for countries that are mostly forest, such as Sweden or Canada.

[โ€“] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

Ummm but achtually this 4 billion dollar us plane can land vertically. Its totally worth it, i swear, please spend fourth of your defence budget on one plane