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On May 22, 2025 at 5:26:23 PM PDT, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 22 May 2025 18:31:29 -0400, Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I *think* they are gradually 
>> getting replaced but I'm not positive. We recently agreed to replace the 
>> pistols that were available to our soldiers: they were made in the 
>> 1930s!! The need for newer pistols was blindingly obvious a LONG time 
>> ago but our government (regardless of which party was in power) ALWAYS 
>> finds money for the military last (if they find money at all). Our 
>> current jet fighters are F-18s which are 40 years old and they're being 
>> held together (figuratively) with spit and bailer twine. The 
>> Conservatives, when they were last in power, agreed to buy a bunch of 
>> F-35s but as soon as the Liberals got in, they decided to revisit the 
>> decision, then spend almost 10 fucking years hemming and hawing before 
>> finally deciding to buy F-35s anyway. Now Carney is talking about 
>> pausing that order after all and going with a European fighter, just 
>> because Trump. (We've committed to buying a handful of F-35s but they're 
>> talking about taking the rest of the order away from the US and giving 
>> it to the Eurofighter people which would be extra, extra stupid because 
>> then we'd have a handful of F-35s and then a bunch of the Eurofighters 
>> causing all kinds of complications in terms of basing, maintenance, 
>> training, etc. etc. But the Liberals are nothing if not stupid so I'm 
>> ready for anything.) But I digress....
> 
> I think you fail to see the obvious answer. If your country were truly
> to move away from the F-35 then there's no reason to keep them. Just
> sell them to another country that is using the fighters. I'm sure
> there will be many willing buyers.

Weapons sales tend to come with a "you can't sell this stuff to anyone else"
clause in the contract. We only want those things going to certain countries.