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More F-35 Stealth Fighters Are Headed For Russia’s ‘Military’ Backyard​

For all of the controversies, growing pains, and teething issues surrounding the American-made Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II 5th Generation stealth fighter, that much criticized warbird seems to have relatively little trouble gaining foreign customers.

If my most recent count is correct the number of foreign nations’ militaries stood at 16.

Well, Customer #17 is not going to sit well with Vladimir Putin. Not only is this new customer a NATO ally, it’s also a former Soviet satellite state to boot.

We’re talking about Czechia AKA the Czech Republic.

“’The proposed sale will improve the Czech Republic’s defense capabilities as well as support NATO operations by guarding against modern threats and maintaining a constant presence in the region,’ the State Department said in a statement.

Czechia’s acquisition of the F-35 will bring its airpower arsenal in line with 11 of its NATO allies, most notably Poland and Finland. I say “most notably” because those latter two countries have something very much in common with the former Czechoslovakia,

that of being victimized by the jackboot of invasive Soviet tyranny. Therefore, all three countries have damn good motivation to get their aerial arsenals up-to-speed (both literally and figuratively) should Putin or any hypothetical future Russian autocrat decide to initiate WWIII.

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More F-35 Stealth Fighters are Headed for Russia’s ‘Military’ Backyard

Czechia’s acquisition of the F-35 will bring its airpower arsenal in line with 11 of its NATO allies, most notably Poland and Finland.
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