Probably anyone who was on the recieving end & survived?
Mal
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Hence my interest in recently acquiring this little badger, to be portrayed as a What-if complete with gun (a purchased add-on). When? I have no idea, and as for colour scheme, don’t get me started(!)
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Kerala… had to look up where that is. So a nice climate and some place with flavorful cuisine… yeah, might be a nice place to break down and spend some extended time.
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Of our 4 first belgian F-35, one got stranded in the Azores for several days/weeks when passing over the atlantic to come to Belgium so apparently super expensive doesn’t mean that much either.
Today, we have bets placed if they will get one airborne on the 21 of July (our national day parade)
I dream of a consortium of SAAB and Airbus to build the next European fighter.
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lets not forget that theChinese hackers managed to steal a lot of top secret information about this aircraft, so have yet to see the ramifications of this in a ‘real war’
Hackers and other means of espionage… every so many months, there will be a news article on the Feds arresting a Chinese national on espionage in various aerospace or defense companies. They have a very active network in the US.
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Cheap knock-off copies Made in China?
Manufactured from the very best Chinesium alloy …
A friend worked at Lockheed Martin in Orlando. He said the Chinese rode the nearby Ferris wheel to get photo’s of what was happening at the plant.
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Maybe it was just a cunning plan to lull the Chinese into building the same faults into their knock-off. And if they managed to fix them, hopefully reverse-espionage will have found its way back to LM for a future iteration.
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Not exactly something that could not be seen by their satellites… of course outside of what can be seen during their orbital passes…
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well the Chinese make some damn good knock off i-phones that are so good that fool even some of the manufacturers.
take a look at our hobby and think of the first trumpeter kits and where they’re at now as well as all the cloned figures as to.
I wouldn’t be in a rush to dismiss they’re military equipment in the near future.
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Are we sure they weren’t just massive Ferris-wheel enthusiasts? Getting a thrill that the Chairman wouldn’t allow back home…
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how many people do you know who launch drones from Ferris wheels? 
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That wouldn’t have helped them much. This is what they do in Orlando:
The EOTS Sensor
Block 4 Upgrades
Sustainment and Software
Final assembly is in Fort Worth not far from where I volunteer. A friend got me in recently but I wasn’t allowed to take photos from where I was. Possibly in the future, but not from the part of the facility I was in.