It is 100% the case. War is a racket, they gave them mountains and mountains of Javelin missile launchers because they know damn well how effective their Javelins are and there's really no downside to it for America when the things are damn good. But if it got out that Russian weapons could shoot down the F16s easily the sales would tank and Russian anti aircraft sales would go up a lot.
The US still sells the F-16, they don't want to put them into a warzone where they'll be shot down and hurt sales.
Lmao this is probably the case. They can just shrug and make excuses for the older planes breaking down
It is 100% the case. War is a racket, they gave them mountains and mountains of Javelin missile launchers because they know damn well how effective their Javelins are and there's really no downside to it for America when the things are damn good. But if it got out that Russian weapons could shoot down the F16s easily the sales would tank and Russian anti aircraft sales would go up a lot.