It is shit.Wasn't the mig-21 much better?
Lots of bribes, at least in case of Germany.
>>65639120Because in those day you bought American if you weren't a communist or French, British, Swiss or Swedish.
I don't get why someone is paying for tokens to post these low quality threads. I also don't get why the faggot jannies haven't wised up to it yet. The catalogue is chock full of these "vaguely /k/ related low effort OPs that no one gives a shit about" and it's the most obvious slop I've ever seen.Not one real person in the whole universe wonders why countries bought Starfighters instead of Fishbeds. No one would ever ask a question like that on an Antarctic penguin dunking website.
>>65639120Yes bro, buy fighter jets from the people that want to kill you.
>>65639120American bullshit buy our utter shit or you don't get to live under the US nuclear umbrella you are paying for by using the dollar as a commodity currency and reserve. Same shit as now with facebook and twitter and google not being banned for acting as pro moscow and anti EU influencers in the EU. Of course that's all fucked now after the Ukraine backstab. The days of the EU buying a lot of US top dollar weapon systems are gone since the kremlin whitehouse happened. The Gripen used have few buyers now it is everywhere same for the rafaele
>>65639120>Wasn't the mig-21 much better?Marxist Leninism was not as popular as you seem to imagine. The main reason to buy the F-104 was the hope that the USA would nuke Moscow but we now know that they were always to cowardly and would probably have done nothing even if washington DC got nuked by the kremlin. They would just have responded by electing a communist.
>>65639136He's right. Literally bribes, it led to a lot of better planes getting canned because of it. Everybody from Yakuza to Crown Princes were bribed.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals
>>65639145Better than ukeZiobro muh turdieputler blew up threads
>>65639145The jannies, the slide threaders, and the war tourists are all on the same side
>>65639120The F-104 wasn’t shit, it was just used for missions it wasn’t designed for. It was a high speed interceptor, but it thrown into rolls that it would never be good at.
>>65639455>>65639459So it's you doing it?
>>65640006Those^ are two different separate users. (You) otoh are the /hg/ /arg/tard (here outside of containment thread) destroying this formerly-useable board /k/ Weapons along w/ ukeZiobro muh turdieputler blew up lardtub diabetic donut eaters in NoVa.Lose some weight and do pushups, blimpo
>>65639493It was still a shit, poorly designed plane. It was a one trick pony, and it wasn't even the best at the one thing it was designed form.People often point at Spain and say that they didn't suffer any accident with the F-104 because they used them properly, but the truth is that they barely used them at all, only buying 20 or so of them and selling them after a few years...
>>65642955>It was still a shit, poorly designed plane. It was a one trick pony, and it wasn't even the best at the one thing it was designed form. This very much. The Lightning and Delta Dart were better pure interceptors, the Mirage III and Draken were better at play-pretending to be genpurp fighters, and the Fishbed was cheap.
>>65639145Better than the constant Slav trash posted on this fucking board. FUCK OFF!
>>65639493didn't help that the west germans put inexperienced pilots into them and then blamed the plane for being too complicated.>>65642990the EE lightning had it's own host of technical issues that took forever to sort out. at best it would have been a lateral move going that route.
>>65639120Because it was the next step and better than what we had before it, and no self-respecting non-commie country would by Sovblock aircraft. It's not that hard to fathom.
>>65639120>It is shit.Yeah kinda.>Wasn't the mig-21 much better?lolno
>>65639448Funniest shit Lockheed scandals led to is the last known instance of Kamikaze attack done with plane. A porn actor went full Tenno Heikai Banzai! with Piper Cherokee on yakuza bosses mansion.
>>65639143>communist or French, British, Swiss or Swedish
>>65639448>muh bribesyou cant sell weapons without lobbying the shit out of politicians. sponsoring, campaign donations, kick back deals. you see all sorts of weird shenanigans happen around arms deals and absolutely everybody does it.
