[Humboldtsnee]

Oh hey, low carbon emissions!

I genuinely cannot believe they tout that in their marketing.

This is a machine to kill people, is anyone worried about its carbon footprint.

(Is this page satire I fell for?)

[baron816]

If you’re trying to sell to other NATO countries, like Canada, Denmark, the UK, Germany, who are actively trying to reduce their emissions, yeah it might matter. A plane with lower emissions is just going to be more competitive.

Everyone who buys this or any other fighter jet is really hoping they don’t have to use it to kill anyone. The primary use case is as deterrence. These things will spend a lot of time just patrolling—and that uses a lot of fuel and emits a lot of carbon.

[dragonwriter]

> This is a machine to kill people, is anyone worried about its carbon footprint.

Well, yeah, the people buying “machines to kill people” seem to see that as a concern:

https://www.defense.gov/spotlights/tackling-the-climate-cris...

[forgetfreeman]

Killing people is an excellent way to reduce global carbon emissions.

[chargingmarmot]

I was going to say, "hey, maybe nuclear winter can help too!" but it sounds like maybe that whole thing was overstated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter

[drunkenmagician]

I think you meant 'efficient' instead of 'excellent'? ;)

[novok]

Killing the right people, efficiently at the lowest cost :p

[forgetfreeman]

See? Someone else gets it.

[thunderbird120]

May have some trouble killing people with an aircraft which doesn't carry any weapons. This is a reconnaissance drone.

[orbital-decay]

This isn't satire. Environmental footprint of the military is one of the primary concerns in the time of peace, which is most of the time. Depleted uranium ammo, toxic fuel leaks etc.