• prayer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Don’t you see? This is just another case of Chinese aid to Russia, not at all a result of having no military industry for sensitive electronics.

    • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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      There’s option C: Graft. Buy the Baofeng radio for 3000 roubles, rebadge and sell on a state contract for 300,000. Probably works well as long as nobody is comparison shopping defence contracts on AliExpress.

      I hope that actually becomes a trend. “Peru was going to buy the F-35 but instead chose the FOR J-20 TOP EXPORT QUALITY WAR BOMBER FIGHTER PLANE NEW 2023 MODEL CUTE MEN WOMEN CHILD GIFT” The $12.99 price and included USB cable was a deal Boeing simply couldn’t beat.

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        Pedantic correction, but the F-35 was developed by Lockheed Martin; it was a direct competitor to Boeing’s X-32.