Comments by "" (@Shontaku) on "NATO" channel.

  1. Gripen E and coastal ships for Canada. Greater alignment with Europe, rather than our fair-weather neighbour.
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  2. Gripen E is almost 10x cheaper to fly per hour than the F35 and can be maintained without a fleet of computers and engineers with PhDs. Lifetime cost of each F35 is around $700 million, wheras the Gripen E, closer to $200 million. I would rather have 3x as many jets than better stealth. F35 needs "climate-controlled" hangars. Like a sexy girlfriend, the F35 looks great when all dolled-up...unfortunately, as soon as she breaks a nail, she's inconsolable.
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  3. Now all NATO and NATO-aligned countries need to vastly increase defence spending immediately. Expand the definition of NATO to include countries such as Japan and S. Korea et al.
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