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luvpaxplentytrue t1_ixk45pf wrote

Reply to comment by Ramenastern in Berlin to Back French-Built Rockets in Race Against Musk by Soupjoe5

How is airbus "dominating their US counterpart"? Where is the US "struggling in their military and space divisions"? This is complete nonsense.

The US exceeds the EU in space technology in almost every category. The ESA has a higher failure rate, less innovation, more cost, etc. ... Europe doesn't have any advantage over the USA in space technology.

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CosmosExpedition t1_ixkakit wrote

That comment from /u/Ramenastern was one of the more ignorant bits of wannabe analysis I’ve ever read on this sub lol

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Ramenastern t1_ixl3vzg wrote

Oh, you'll love Scott Hamilton's analyses of the state of Boeing commercial, then. Or even Richard Aboulafia's.

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Ramenastern t1_ixl3t55 wrote

>How is airbus "dominating their US counterpart"?

Have you seen market shares recently, especially in the narrowbody sector? Have you seen sales figures and delays for the 777X? Have you seen how Boeing tried to lobby away the CSeries instead of innovating, scoring an impressive own goal in the process as it ended up giving Airbus the CSeries platform? Have you heard about the MAX debacle and the one year delivery stop for the 787 due to quality issues? Are you aware of the previous 787 screw-ups that led to a) Airbus selling more A330s after the 787 was offered than before (noting the A330 was the plane the 787 was supposed to kill) and b) the programme hardly ever being able to recover its R&D costs?

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