@sferrin, please stop repeating because the customers are buying the F-35, it is proof that the F-35 is a success or it's concept is valuable for all customers.
I'll have to pay with my tax money for it in the case Belgian Defense will buy it. And I consider myself therefore a potential customer.
The chances Belgium will buy the F-35 are high, because the instant sunshine devices at Kleine Brogel have a USA sticker on them, our fiends in the north committed already to buy the F-35, and i spare you Belgian politics... I do not see any reason why we need F-35 for Air Defense, Gripen C with Meteor/Iris-T would be more than enough for such a tiny country. Buy the time Pak-Fa cross the Belgian-German Border, the civilized world will end soon anyway, with F-35 or not. And to bomb insane Belgians playing Jihad in the desert, our good old F-16 are more than enough...
We will get that thing pushed down our throat, if we need and like it or not. And it has nothing to do with the performance of the F-35,...
I do not want to start a flame war, just to illustrate countries buying F-35 means nothing in relation to it's actual performance.
I'll have to pay with my tax money for it in the case Belgian Defense will buy it. And I consider myself therefore a potential customer.
The chances Belgium will buy the F-35 are high, because the instant sunshine devices at Kleine Brogel have a USA sticker on them, our fiends in the north committed already to buy the F-35, and i spare you Belgian politics... I do not see any reason why we need F-35 for Air Defense, Gripen C with Meteor/Iris-T would be more than enough for such a tiny country. Buy the time Pak-Fa cross the Belgian-German Border, the civilized world will end soon anyway, with F-35 or not. And to bomb insane Belgians playing Jihad in the desert, our good old F-16 are more than enough...
We will get that thing pushed down our throat, if we need and like it or not. And it has nothing to do with the performance of the F-35,...
I do not want to start a flame war, just to illustrate countries buying F-35 means nothing in relation to it's actual performance.