• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        If you want a laugh, go look up the photos Iran doctored up for this bit of propaganda. I remember one had an F35 with cockpit the size of a school bus on it. Another had the tail section on backwards. Probably AI slop, but fake photos to be sure.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        There have been no confirmed downings of F-35’s.

        Several “oops this plane just fell off the flight deck, oh well, shit happens” articles in recent memory. A great way to explain why the Navy is suddenly down a vehicle without having to explain to anyone in the general public what happened.

        I wouldn’t lean on foreign propaganda any more than I would domestic propaganda.

        Americans are putting these jets into service and a surprising number of them are failing.

        Whether Iran/Yemen have successfully struck any of them or the Navy can’t get them on and off the flight deck reliably is almost a moot point. A downed plane is a downed plane.