The European Commission president says increasing defense spending is necessary in "an era of rearmament." A European summit on defense and Ukraine is planned this week amid tense transatlantic relations.
Are the Eurofighter really good?
At least in the first years I’ve only read about problems and the ones in Austria couldn’t fly for most of the time
But that’s quite some years ago, so I can’t remember what the problems actually were - and have no idea, if those got finally resolved
Is there any comparison to relative modern MiGs (or whatever the correct counterpart would be)?
Edit: also I’ve read that the American jets have some kind of lock, where we need some unlock code from the USA. Is that correct?
Because that is quite some high level of trust into a foreign power to let ourselves defend our countries
The Austrian Typhoons are all the earliest model and Austria chose not to upgrade any of them, so they’re approaching 25 years old and a less mature design than everyone else’s Typhoons
Yeah, because the Austrian military is a fucking joke
We seem to rely solely on neutrality, because “look at Switzerland during WW2!!”, but all of those idiots completely miss, that the Swiss were armed to the teeth to defend themselves.
While in Austria every form of building up self defense measures are always countered by neutrality claims, because as long as we aren’t a threat, no one will attack us
Yeah, that will work out great, when we get rolled over…
But if the FPÖ gets its way, we’ll probably already showing our bellies to the wannabe strong man in Moscow, because Russia will play a big part in supporting right wing parties and with that, they are happy to meet their master it seems.
We can. The US only pushed us to buy F35 to carry their atomic warheads.
Eurofighter, Rafale and Gripen are excellent fighter jets.
Are the Eurofighter really good?
At least in the first years I’ve only read about problems and the ones in Austria couldn’t fly for most of the time
But that’s quite some years ago, so I can’t remember what the problems actually were - and have no idea, if those got finally resolved
Is there any comparison to relative modern MiGs (or whatever the correct counterpart would be)?
Edit: also I’ve read that the American jets have some kind of lock, where we need some unlock code from the USA. Is that correct?
Because that is quite some high level of trust into a foreign power to let ourselves defend our countries
The Austrian Typhoons are all the earliest model and Austria chose not to upgrade any of them, so they’re approaching 25 years old and a less mature design than everyone else’s Typhoons
Yeah, because the Austrian military is a fucking joke
We seem to rely solely on neutrality, because “look at Switzerland during WW2!!”, but all of those idiots completely miss, that the Swiss were armed to the teeth to defend themselves.
While in Austria every form of building up self defense measures are always countered by neutrality claims, because as long as we aren’t a threat, no one will attack us
Yeah, that will work out great, when we get rolled over…
But if the FPÖ gets its way, we’ll probably already showing our bellies to the wannabe strong man in Moscow, because Russia will play a big part in supporting right wing parties and with that, they are happy to meet their master it seems.
Patriots…my ass