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And the pressure was enough to get the aircraft elected as our "new fighter" even tho it is more like a fighter-bomber than a fighter as we are in need in.. And the little I know about that bird, it is a aircraft that would be good to bomb enemies, but rather bad to be a interceptor, that we need to show our collour, but not to treathen our advesaries to a fighting war.. We need modern aircraft that is true, even our F16 Falcon MLU4 fighter need repleasment sooner or later, even then the MLU upgrade was making it the most agile aircraft prodused in our neck of the wood (rumor is that the MLU upgrade made it better than even the US Falcon) it is a aircraft that is old, in fact the aircraft is the same age as I am 33 year and counting .

Mostly we need a jet fighter who is agile, and can intercept, and show who is in charge in our Barents sea area, who is twice the land mass of Norway.. We have the sovernigy of a large part of the Barents area, and we need a aircraft that can made it posible to make it clear who is in charge in the area.. Not a bomber whos duty is to blow up the emeny.. The F35 could do the job, and scare the hell out of the ruskies at the same. But what we really need is to make a messeage, not to scare them to unessesary actions, like have fighter jets with the Bears and so on.. We dosen't need to Fuck up what friendship we have today with the russians... We dosent have the large army, or the large airforce the US have, and is a rather smal country compared to most european country... And if the russians got really pissed off... Wel I hope they never do...

If I had been in sharge I would shoosen the Gripen heads down... No doubt.. And if the Specs for JAS 39Grien N is to belived, it would be a heck of a aircraft for the norwigian royal airforce.. And far sheaper than the US counterparts even when we shoosed the aircraft as our next aircraft. Now the aircraft would be even more expensive than orginaly planed.. It wil make the friendship between two scandinavian country who have been friends in more than 100 year now, even tho we also have been enemies in old times. And the swedish stole half the area of Norway in the 16 and 17th century... Baahus, Herjedalen Jemtland respectibility.. But since 1660 the border have been the same, and is the most solid border in the world it looks like. And we had passport free zone between Sweden and Denmark and Norway allmoust 40 year bfore the EU got the same idea

But it looks like we are been fucked over - again as we orginaly was with the F16.. But the F16 at least was a aircraft who we made some money on.. With the F35 it looks more and more that we have just to accept an aircraft, where most of the specks is "clasified" even for the Norwigian airforce.. And where most of the reparis have to be made by Locheed Martin, not by our own ground crew.. Who WIL be an disadvange if our friendship for some reason or another was to be bad...

When they can act like that when we are friends, and allied for more than 60 year, I fear the day the US find out that we are not good friends of them longer. Or we shoose a path who are less close to the US, and maybe more close to the rest of the EU.. That day wil come, when EU would be more important for our security than US.. Maybe not today, but it wil come a day we cant trust US more than 50% or maybe far less at any given time...

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