The F-35s are for the children and grandchildren. It's to safeguard their future.

Democracy is important and it isn't free.

If the Japanese are looking for technology to protect themselves against a heavily armed imperial force they should be mass producing Shaheds instead of paying tributes to the US MIC.

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hattmall 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Shahed drone's are not serious weapons of war. Japan could easily produce millions of them if needed. The drones are good for antagonizing and terrorising a civilian population. A few F35s and bomber squads could reliably deplete and destroy the entire Iranian drone stock and manufacturing capacity if there was the desire and higher tolerance for civilian casualties.

In other words if Japan were in a position where they were willing to use drones to indiscriminately attack soft targets an F-35 would be about a trillion times more effective.

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strictnein an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

They should be mass producing Iran's drone?

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noree 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

They certainly should not be buying 150 f35s judging by recent track records.

	▲	strictnein 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		There has been one US F35 damaged in combat. That's total, across all the areas its been in and all the countries that have deployed them, starting in 2018. They've been up against the best air defense systems in the world in Venezuela and Iran and they received a single scratch. The countries acquiring them are doing so because they are best strike fighters on the planet, and it's not even close. Unless you know something that Norway, Japan, England, the Netherlands, etc don't know?

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rambojohnson an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

who is winning that war right now?

	▲	strictnein 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Holy non-sequitur batman. Why would Japan mass produce an inferior product when they would easily be able to design and build a far superior one? "Shahed" isn't just another word for drone, it's a specific company's name.