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> or will continue spending billions on less effective F35s

This claim, that FPV UASs equipped with explosives are more effective than F-35s as a blank statement does not sound meaningful.

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This attack just showed this. An f-35 could have never pulled off these attacks.

OTOH, if Ukraine had F-35s, it probably wouldn't need to spend a year and a half preparing a covert operation to take out bombers that were conducting regular attacks on them, either, they'd just intercept them in the air.

Think Ukraine had its own airforce at the beginning, and for 30 years nobody stopped it from modernizing or acquiring new aircrafts.

Besides that, I doubt the US would have ever sold a single F35 to Ukraine just because of revealing radio-emission and reflection patterns to russian air defense, basically drawing F35 useless for future usage against Russia.

If your point is that it is easier to get drones than F-35s, that's not in debate.

That wasn't really the subject of discussion, though.

Good luck to intercept russians bombers 1000+km deep into their territory.

Price-based they are.

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