Comment by ceejayoz

I have no doubt they used cyberattacks and electronic warfare.

Trump just seems the worst person in the world to play a game of telephone with on such a subject.

For example: https://www.defensenews.com/air/2025/05/16/pentagon-silent-a...

> “The F-35, we’re doing an upgrade, a simple upgrade,” Trump said. “But we’re also doing an F-55, I’m going to call it an F-55. And that’s going to be a substantial upgrade. But it’s going to be also with two engines.”

> Frank Kendall, the secretary of the Air Force during former President Joe Biden’s administration, said in an interview with Defense News that it is unclear what Trump was referring to when he discussed an “F-22 Super,” but it may have been a reference to the F-47 sixth-generation fighter jet… Kendall said it is also unclear what Trump was referring to when he discussed the alleged F-55.