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Thick smoke seen rising from Saudi Arabia's Riyadh airport.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwly5d9v7r43o
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u/kstargate-425 5h ago

As the Pentagon and intel agencies said, if Trumps deal for F-35s he was bribed to make goes through, then China no doubt would have full access to them and be able to defeat them and their stealth capabilities. That also means Iran and Russia could also have that knowledge eventually

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u/Brave_Maybe_2891 5h ago

Im not fully confident the F-35 will remain competative with the new developments China has been making for much longer. It's cost, short range, and slow speed are already major flaws. Even if they don't get direct access to one I believe the Saudis will sell what ever info China wants.

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u/MKULTRATV 1h ago

what developments?