• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Looks more like your parents’ tax roubles.

    Edit: guess i was wrong. I thought this was from the Ukraine war.

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      3 months ago

      Those are Iranian F14 tomcats, made in USA, given to Iran, then blown up by USA bombs.

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            3 months ago

            “A lot of people say the best weapon is one you never have to fire. I disagree. I say the best weapon is one you only have to fire once.”

            Sorry i have a compulsion any time i hear about defense companies

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            I’d like to see none at all, but I guess that’ll be a dream for quite a while. The Enterprise was built to be a science vessel, not a war machine. It still packed a punch, though.

            Make Earth post scarcity “again”!

            Hmm, MEPSA sounds like shit…

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              3 months ago

              MEPSA sounds like either a disease, a bodily fluid, or a society of people devoted to discussing and eating poop.

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          Are you implying that the plan is to sell more jets to Iran to replace these?

          Otherwise, Iran having F-14s is actually helpful in selling planes and bombs to Iran’s enemies.

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              3 months ago

              Which, in the case or Iran, is not them.

              I’m pretty sure this isn’t a money making conspiracy, but just normal geopolitics happening, like it always has.

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          I mean they’re kind of death traps at this point, though what’s funny is the Iranians actually had a lower failure and crash rate than Americans, probably because their pilots didn’t build their self image on being Tom Cruise.

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          3 months ago

          Takes a drag on cigarette

          “Well it all started with this British oil company and a guy called Mossadegh…”

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        3 months ago

        It’s possible some things may have happened in Iran in between the acquisition of the those F14s and now.

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      3 months ago

      these are iranian owned, american manufactured f14 tomcats, destroyed earlier this year by israeli airstrikes from maybe drones or f35s