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Originally Posted by stormlion1
The F-35 has its problems, the main problem is taxpayers are still throwing money at it. I mean shouldn't the developer have to pay for it? As for Scorpion, this thing is perfect as a light, cheap, throw away plane for sale to foreign governments, training, and deployment to battlefields where air superiority isn't a issue. Need to arm a small government? Send these, cheap and easy and your not giving away expensive US Aircraft, even stripped down ones.
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The advantage of supplying a plane like the Scorpion is that if the country should turn against the US at some point later it's not going to be very hard for US fighters and AA to deal with it.