Wdym lol smartwatches are everywhere now.

There’s an Extension for chrome that fixes this luckily.

No, that’s only the VTOL variant for the marines (F35B). The regular F35 uses P&Ws if I’m not mistaken.

I was talking about the Gripen regarding spares.

The F35 doesn’t necessarily has to be operated via systems in the US, only if you don’t buy the proprietary terminals to program its flight-Mission systems. Israel for example has bought the entire package including terminals and they are able to operate the jets without US involvements. EU countries however of course chose the cheap option without terminals.

The EU can (or rather, could) potentially make lots of things, the question is if there is sufficient political will to do it.

No doubt, the problem has never been with the quality but with the fact that a hostile American regime can refuse to send spare parts. Which is not as troubling with civil aviation but certainly when we’re talking about our own militaries.

The Gripen uses US-built engines iirc so it’s still a problematic buy for Europeans.