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Maybe go for a full on light carrier like the  Cavour. Amphibious ooperations can be launched from a carrier, it just lacks the well deck for embarked landing craft.

Like I said, they were looking to tack on to the larger US order for the E-7.

NATO itself does have E-3s that they are planning to replace. The E-7 was the intended replacement. https://awacs.nato.int/organisation/awacs-fleet-2 NATO countries that operate the E-7 such as UK and Turkey do so separate from NATO.

The "issues" are just Pete Hegseth being a moron and unilaterally canceling the order because he thinks satellites and carrier-borne E-2s are good enough. NATO wants to use the US economy of scale. South Korea continues to operate the E-7, they're just buying a second platform.

And the E-7 is built on the 737, the most common aircraft in service. So parts are available at every airport in the world. The GlobalEye and Phoenix don't have that.

At a certain level, I already knew the allegations were true before even hearing them.

And plenty of examples where the American option is legitimately the better choice, or effectively only choice.

Cutting off your nose to spite your face is not sound policy. We should not be buying subpar kit that our allies don't use just because "America bad".

Which is why we're currently buying P-8s, HIMARS, F-35s, C-130 upgrade program...

That's just a possibility at this point, not an actual feature. And the GlobalEye has all the radar systems in the way of where the fuel probes would go.

Nobody in the Republicans can whip up crowds quite like Trump. And remember, even Trump lost an election. They are almost certainly going to lose the midterms. The whole thing is Trump, once he's gone, it'll fizzle out.

I never said that.

The 22nd Amendment prohibits a third term. And it only happened a second time because he ran against a fantastically awful candidate. Trump can't run in 2028, assuming he makes to 2028, and there's no real successor lined up. And who knows, he might be impeached a third time.

Why should they care? They're just buying it, they're not the ones trying to sell it to other countries.

We already have Leopard 2s in Latvia, and found have it doesn't work like that. They have to send parts to the Canadian subsidiary, who releases them to the CAF.