I genuinely forget that Spain exists. They're so irrelevant, that everytime is see something related to them, I'm reminded that they're an actual country.
It's pretty unremarkable, what's curious is they don't have a massively larger economy than russia. Note Texas is 29 million, Australia is 26 million, both bigger economies. Spain is 40 plus million.
Not sure if GDP is a great representation of how well off a region is economically. Technically, if a country produced and used everything within its own borders, its GDP would be zero. >tfw Earth's GDP is zero.
As a Texan I feel inclined to say that there are times where I wonder if the average Russian has an easier time living in general. Rent is shit, buyer's market with the housing issue, fricking ghettos in every city you visit.
Its not really a cope when their GDP is so embarrassingly low for how large and how many resources that country has. Russians are subhumans and deserve to be butchered.
You're an idiot. Spain's a participant in both the Eurofighter and FCAS programmes, why would they buy f-35 when they know they're investing in a new indigenous 5th gen?
>You're an idiot. Spain's a participant in both the Eurofighter and FCAS programmes, why would they buy f-35 when they know they're investing in a new indigenous 5th gen?
We will end up buying some B variants for the carrier and maybe a fe A or maybe some extra B variants like the UK to partly replace the F-18 along with the eurofighters. The FCAS isnt coming until 2040 at the minimun.
I doubt it, our navy can't even afford to replace the asw patrol planes it decommissionned recently
All of the budget atm is going to the S80 subs and F110 frigates
Everyone in Europe is raising their budgets because of Ukraine, including us. It isnt even a secret that perro sanxe is going to announce a raise in our defense budget during the NATO meeting in Madrid. Furthermore spanish generals have been seen around LM offices several times already. The asw patrol planes will be replaced by the C-295 ASW variant btw, they are just laying low because we were supposed to join the french and the german to buy them together, but it was a mess because we all wanted to propose our own thing. We wanted the C-295 as they are made by casa, the french wanted a new plane based around an airbus a319 I think as they assemble most of it in France, and the germans wanted Boeings P-8 as it was the cheaper option because it was already made for the USA.
>Boeings P-8 as it was the cheaper option because it was already made for the USA.
The cheaper compared to the airbus, and more capable compared to the C-295
> the french wanted a new plane based around an airbus a319 I think as they assemble most of it in France,
What happened to that?
2 years ago
Anonymous
As of now the only one that has commited to buy something is Germany, as the P-8 won the contest. Spain is trying to backpedal to buy the C-295 and France, despite wanting to do their own thing, as always, will most probably end up buying the P-8 as making a whole new plane in their own will end up being very expensive and they need a long range plane for their maritime territories.
2 years ago
Anonymous
So the A319 doesn’t even exist in ASW?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Only as a proposal, not even a prototype. Its known as the a319 MPA (Marine Patrol Aircraft)
2 years ago
Anonymous
Bruh, what’s the point then when the P8 exists?
2 years ago
Anonymous
To be independent from america and grow your own military industry, as almost everytime that some western country decides to buy their own thing instead of buying from them.
2 years ago
Anonymous
But then why aren’t they making it? If it’s mostly French made they can’t complain to other European countries for no involvement or investment.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Because they expected the costs of developing a new plane to be shared with the other countries, and doing the whole thing in their own (along with the sale loses of missing the other 2 countries orders) would make the economical loses too significant to continue.
When developing your own thing its mostly about how much money you are willing to sink on it.
2 years ago
Anonymous
So they want money from others for them to develop it for themselves?
>why would they buy f-35 when they know they're investing in a new indigenous 5th gen?
Hasn't stopped Germany, Britain and Italy. FCAS is at least 20 years away
Spain (47 military population)is a mino because they spend 1.2% of their GDP on defence and have a capability that's equivalent to Canada's (37 million). Which is why they get mogged by countries like Australia (26 million) that double their defence spend.
Basically Europe is a joke and the best allies to have are UK, Japan and Australia. Everyone is a fricking joke and we should stop allying with them.
Why are you seething at me about Spain? Your post has nothing to do with what I was saying
Also >irrelevant
200 jets
80k troops
Decent navy
Literally built Australia's two largest warships
>200 Jets.
Imagine if quality and capability were irrelevant, you'd have a good airforce. >80k troops
Ah yes the total number of troops cope. Again on this metric Indonesia is the second most impressive force on the earth. >Decent navy >Literally built Australia's two largest warships
Okish navy and Australian did buy a bunch of lhds fro Spain. But again that's because........they spend on defence while Spain and Euros count their israelite coins, banking on the US doing all of the lifting.
>Spain's only real threat is Morocco
No dude, you're enjoying the peace bought by decades of US hegemony. If US didn't exist your defence spend would be significantly significantly higher, just like every europoor.
>If the US didn't exist
Then there would be no Russia as there was no lend-lease >Russian attack
Yeah, the day the beat Poland, Germany and France, they'll have to pass the Pyrenees
2 years ago
Anonymous
>there would be no Russia
Correct, there would be the USSR of greater europe with Spain as a minor European vassal.
Regardless of your moronation, ultimately you know I am right. You like Europe live rent free on US military investment and engagement. When shit hit the fan this israeliteery will be remembered.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Nope, Germany would have won. Without the lend-lease the Soviets would have collapsed
Realistically speaking, who are they going to use the planes against? They're a peninsula with a giant mountain between them and France. The North African nations to their south are completely fricking incompetent. They don't need the F35.
How will /k/'s information warfare handlers react to a thread that pro-west but anti-US? Will they raid this thread and report bomb it until it gets deleted too? Let's find out.
If you post anything that disagrees with a pro-government statist narrative, glowBlack folk will raid your thread until it gets deleted. See also: the thread yesterday about NG/FBI surveillance flights during the Floyd riots.
>used in that thread to suppress discussion. This is exactly what I'm talking about.
Black person, you can talk about whatever schitzo shit you want but just don't feel that others can't call you a moron.
/k/ thread: >how surveillance werg? how plane radar see things?
/misc/ thread >HAPPENING HAPPENING HAPPNEING >US GLOWIES CAUGHT USING SPY PLANE TO DIRECT GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS >JOE "BRANDON" BIDEN NOT MY PRESIDENT BTW
2 years ago
Anonymous
Wrong again, glowBlack person. It was about the type of aircraft used, their flight deployments, and their surveillance payloads. You and your buddies pulled out all the stops to make the thread unusable until it could get deleted from your report bombing. I have never seen so much derailment spam in my life.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>You and your buddies
Meds
Now
2 years ago
Anonymous
Why on God's green earth would you not screenshot the thread if you are aware of glowies taking down threads?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>You and your buddies
Meds
Now
Keep glowing dickhead. Protop: saying "meds now" is a giveaway sign.
2 years ago
Anonymous
meds, now
2 years ago
Anonymous
the meds stop you from hearing the voices
the voices that tell you the troooth
How will /k/'s information warfare handlers react to a thread that pro-west but anti-US? Will they raid this thread and report bomb it until it gets deleted too? Let's find out.
>"why do my off-topic /misc/ threads on /k/ keep getting deleted?" >"why are the ones on topic promoting Russia refuted with evidence, and morally sound ethos?" >"it must be a shillfarm."
vatBlack folk and skitzos really believe this
What is it about the F-35 that makes thirdies so incredibly butt blasted about it? Like, seething over the F-35 is probably the second most common thread on /k/ lately, only beat by Ukraine threads
China, Russia, Turkey and other assorted shitholes around the world are absolutely terrified of it and of American stealth tech more generally
A single wing of f-35s in Romania could wipe out the russian black sea fleet and destroy all russian air force and air defense units in Ukraine
Hence they finance massive disinfo campaigns to try and stop the US from buying more while they desperately try to catch up
While there is definitely some amount of actual paid shills/bots from Russia and China on PrepHole they mostly stick to /misc/. On /k/ it's just idiots who are swallowing the propaganda and regurgitating it here. Like when we say "they're not sending their best" it's actually more like they're not sending anyone at all, it's literal bottom feeders who come here to cope armed with Kremlin coping points
Agree, but you are delusional if you don't think CCP shills are on here. They're not poltards either, I remember a few posting a bunch of images that were only available on Chinese websites, coupled with typical wolf warrior narratives and talking points.
The ATF has agents monitor /k/. It came up in the FRT lawsuit. I doubt they’re the only one. To be fair, it’s not like they only monitor PrepHole. They’re on FB/Reddit/etc.
Oh the feds are absolutely monitoring, I just don't think it's the same exact people posting propaganda. Maybe some sort of honey pot thread every now and then
The ATF has agents monitor /k/. It came up in the FRT lawsuit. I doubt they’re the only one. To be fair, it’s not like they only monitor PrepHole. They’re on FB/Reddit/etc.
its glorious since the ukrop propaganda arm has been strong here, so much to the point where for once /k/ is finally the villain of a scenario >pol is always right
Spain is going to go as far as possible to avoid buying American planes, and American weapons in general, as an example take the tenders to replace the army transport and attack helicopters back in the late 90's/early 2000's, the contenders were the apache and tiger for attack and nh90 and blackhawk for utility/transport, the army wanted both the blackhawk and the apache, but the goverment chose the nh90 and tiger instead, the Apache and Blackhaw were cheaper, better and battle tested platforms and the Tiger and the NH90 weren't in mass production. Well the goverment did the right thing chosing them instead the Apache/Blackhawk, why?, because the conditions set by the State department for weapon sales to any country that is not Israel, UK, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Australia and right now Ukraine.
Every contract stipulates that, in case of conflict, you need to ask approval of the DoE to use it, for most of the european countries this is not an issue, the only foe they are going to face is Russia, unless they join some international mission and these are more or less blessed by Washington, but not Spain.
Spain only have two probable "foes" around, one is UK, but going to war with them (or going to war with us) is as remote as having an asteroid crashing in Madrid, not going to happen. But the other one is Morocco, we have a big diplomatic crisis with them almost every year and almost ended in a limited military clash ten years ago during the Perejil island crisis, there's a fair probability to have a military clash between spain and morocco, specially when Rabat has an internal crisis and need some distraction (usually is us or Algeria).
Morocco is a longtime ally of USA, so no way they are going to allow to use any USA weapon system against them, Spain have zero chances of getting any diplomatic support against Morocco so the only thing left is having some kind of military deterrence.
If you have your best fighters grounded there's no deterrence at all.
And before someone asks, yes, both DoE and DoD have ways to make sure the use conditions on these supply contracts are not violated, this goes from forcing you to have the equipment serviced only by designated technicians than can be evacuated at any moment notice, to ration spare parts so you can't stock them and are totally dependent of America's good will to make them work, to kill switches that kill the weapon systems (remember how they bricked the Iranian Phoenix missiles when the Ayatolahs took over Iran).
And yes, this has happened before, during the Ifni war Spain had their fleet of brand new sabres and P-80's shooting stars grounded by Washington order, it was so bad we had to bring out some mothballed He111's bombers back to service because they were the only thing left to use.
From there we only buy French planes and now, the ones from Airbus.
Spain is going to go as far as possible to avoid buying American planes, and American weapons in general, as an example take the tenders to replace the army transport and attack helicopters back in the late 90's/early 2000's, the contenders were the apache and tiger for attack and nh90 and blackhawk for utility/transport, the army wanted both the blackhawk and the apache, but the goverment chose the nh90 and tiger instead, the Apache and Blackhaw were cheaper, better and battle tested platforms and the Tiger and the NH90 weren't in mass production. Well the goverment did the right thing chosing them instead the Apache/Blackhawk, why?, because the conditions set by the State department for weapon sales to any country that is not Israel, UK, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Australia and right now Ukraine.
Every contract stipulates that, in case of conflict, you need to ask approval of the DoE to use it, for most of the european countries this is not an issue, the only foe they are going to face is Russia, unless they join some international mission and these are more or less blessed by Washington, but not Spain.
Spain only have two probable "foes" around, one is UK, but going to war with them (or going to war with us) is as remote as having an asteroid crashing in Madrid, not going to happen. But the other one is Morocco, we have a big diplomatic crisis with them almost every year and almost ended in a limited military clash ten years ago during the Perejil island crisis, there's a fair probability to have a military clash between spain and morocco, specially when Rabat has an internal crisis and need some distraction (usually is us or Algeria).
Morocco is a longtime ally of USA, so no way they are going to allow to use any USA weapon system against them, Spain have zero chances of getting any diplomatic support against Morocco so the only thing left is having some kind of military deterrence.
If you have your best fighters grounded there's no deterrence at all.
and you'll understand why.
At the end they will buy some of them to replace the acient Harriers on the Juan Carlos I, but that's all.
I genuinely forget that Spain exists. They're so irrelevant, that everytime is see something related to them, I'm reminded that they're an actual country.
t. Sudaca
Still a bigger economy than Russia!
i don't understand. 47m population in a country without too much resources or arable land yet it has a bigger economy than russia.
It's pretty unremarkable, what's curious is they don't have a massively larger economy than russia. Note Texas is 29 million, Australia is 26 million, both bigger economies. Spain is 40 plus million.
Texas: Getting invaded by its neighbor
Russia: Invading their neighbor
Not sure if GDP is a great representation of how well off a region is economically. Technically, if a country produced and used everything within its own borders, its GDP would be zero.
>tfw Earth's GDP is zero.
Polite correction: GDP is a measure of production and it doesn't matter whether the goods are exported or consumed domestically.
As a Texan I feel inclined to say that there are times where I wonder if the average Russian has an easier time living in general. Rent is shit, buyer's market with the housing issue, fricking ghettos in every city you visit.
its because russians are incompetent
Cope.
Its not really a cope when their GDP is so embarrassingly low for how large and how many resources that country has. Russians are subhumans and deserve to be butchered.
it's the tourist vacation playland for the rest of europe
Are they actually getting more Eurofighters or retiring a few dozen of the early ones (like the UK and Germany) and buying 20 replacements?
They're replacing old hornets with Eurofighters
You're an idiot. Spain's a participant in both the Eurofighter and FCAS programmes, why would they buy f-35 when they know they're investing in a new indigenous 5th gen?
>You're an idiot. Spain's a participant in both the Eurofighter and FCAS programmes, why would they buy f-35 when they know they're investing in a new indigenous 5th gen?
We will end up buying some B variants for the carrier and maybe a fe A or maybe some extra B variants like the UK to partly replace the F-18 along with the eurofighters. The FCAS isnt coming until 2040 at the minimun.
>a fe
a few*
I doubt it, our navy can't even afford to replace the asw patrol planes it decommissionned recently
All of the budget atm is going to the S80 subs and F110 frigates
Everyone in Europe is raising their budgets because of Ukraine, including us. It isnt even a secret that perro sanxe is going to announce a raise in our defense budget during the NATO meeting in Madrid. Furthermore spanish generals have been seen around LM offices several times already. The asw patrol planes will be replaced by the C-295 ASW variant btw, they are just laying low because we were supposed to join the french and the german to buy them together, but it was a mess because we all wanted to propose our own thing. We wanted the C-295 as they are made by casa, the french wanted a new plane based around an airbus a319 I think as they assemble most of it in France, and the germans wanted Boeings P-8 as it was the cheaper option because it was already made for the USA.
>Boeings P-8 as it was the cheaper option because it was already made for the USA.
The cheaper compared to the airbus, and more capable compared to the C-295
> the french wanted a new plane based around an airbus a319 I think as they assemble most of it in France,
What happened to that?
As of now the only one that has commited to buy something is Germany, as the P-8 won the contest. Spain is trying to backpedal to buy the C-295 and France, despite wanting to do their own thing, as always, will most probably end up buying the P-8 as making a whole new plane in their own will end up being very expensive and they need a long range plane for their maritime territories.
So the A319 doesn’t even exist in ASW?
Only as a proposal, not even a prototype. Its known as the a319 MPA (Marine Patrol Aircraft)
Bruh, what’s the point then when the P8 exists?
To be independent from america and grow your own military industry, as almost everytime that some western country decides to buy their own thing instead of buying from them.
But then why aren’t they making it? If it’s mostly French made they can’t complain to other European countries for no involvement or investment.
Because they expected the costs of developing a new plane to be shared with the other countries, and doing the whole thing in their own (along with the sale loses of missing the other 2 countries orders) would make the economical loses too significant to continue.
When developing your own thing its mostly about how much money you are willing to sink on it.
So they want money from others for them to develop it for themselves?
>why would they buy f-35 when they know they're investing in a new indigenous 5th gen?
Hasn't stopped Germany, Britain and Italy. FCAS is at least 20 years away
Spain (47 military population)is a mino because they spend 1.2% of their GDP on defence and have a capability that's equivalent to Canada's (37 million). Which is why they get mogged by countries like Australia (26 million) that double their defence spend.
Basically Europe is a joke and the best allies to have are UK, Japan and Australia. Everyone is a fricking joke and we should stop allying with them.
Why are you seething at me about Spain? Your post has nothing to do with what I was saying
Also
>irrelevant
200 jets
80k troops
Decent navy
Literally built Australia's two largest warships
>200 Jets.
Imagine if quality and capability were irrelevant, you'd have a good airforce.
>80k troops
Ah yes the total number of troops cope. Again on this metric Indonesia is the second most impressive force on the earth.
>Decent navy
>Literally built Australia's two largest warships
Okish navy and Australian did buy a bunch of lhds fro Spain. But again that's because........they spend on defence while Spain and Euros count their israelite coins, banking on the US doing all of the lifting.
Spain's only real threat is Morocco, that's why
Ruskies can't teleport
>Spain's only real threat is Morocco
No dude, you're enjoying the peace bought by decades of US hegemony. If US didn't exist your defence spend would be significantly significantly higher, just like every europoor.
>If the US didn't exist
Then there would be no Russia as there was no lend-lease
>Russian attack
Yeah, the day the beat Poland, Germany and France, they'll have to pass the Pyrenees
>there would be no Russia
Correct, there would be the USSR of greater europe with Spain as a minor European vassal.
Regardless of your moronation, ultimately you know I am right. You like Europe live rent free on US military investment and engagement. When shit hit the fan this israeliteery will be remembered.
Nope, Germany would have won. Without the lend-lease the Soviets would have collapsed
>Cope
Ok anon, whatever helps your sleep at night
>20 more Eurofighters for a country that already predominantly uses Eurofighters
Yes, big win for Airbus
On an entirely unrelated note, can someone remind me how many F-35s are currently on backorder to foreign purchasers?
Around 600-1000 I think depending on if some pending contracts get approved or not.
Yup
I thought Spain was a first world country? Can someone explain why they would buy this shit?
First worlders use EF F35 etc
Turd workers use Rafale Migs Su's etc
Realistically speaking, who are they going to use the planes against? They're a peninsula with a giant mountain between them and France. The North African nations to their south are completely fricking incompetent. They don't need the F35.
How will /k/'s information warfare handlers react to a thread that pro-west but anti-US? Will they raid this thread and report bomb it until it gets deleted too? Let's find out.
>wow my hecking PrepHole tier b8 thread is getting shat on
>must be them CIAs I keep hearing about on Russia Today
If you post anything that disagrees with a pro-government statist narrative, glowBlack folk will raid your thread until it gets deleted. See also: the thread yesterday about NG/FBI surveillance flights during the Floyd riots.
>muh glowBlack folk
I can't tell if this guy is being serious or he's some schitzo leftypol homosexual.
You're using the same derail attempt that you used in that thread to suppress discussion. This is exactly what I'm talking about.
>used in that thread to suppress discussion. This is exactly what I'm talking about.
Black person, you can talk about whatever schitzo shit you want but just don't feel that others can't call you a moron.
>muh pink floyd thread
Literally belongs in /misc/ moron
It was about surveillance capabilities of NG and FBI aircraft that are deployed domestically. It was /k/.
/k/ thread:
>how surveillance werg? how plane radar see things?
/misc/ thread
>HAPPENING HAPPENING HAPPNEING
>US GLOWIES CAUGHT USING SPY PLANE TO DIRECT GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS
>JOE "BRANDON" BIDEN NOT MY PRESIDENT BTW
Wrong again, glowBlack person. It was about the type of aircraft used, their flight deployments, and their surveillance payloads. You and your buddies pulled out all the stops to make the thread unusable until it could get deleted from your report bombing. I have never seen so much derailment spam in my life.
>You and your buddies
Meds
Now
Why on God's green earth would you not screenshot the thread if you are aware of glowies taking down threads?
Keep glowing dickhead. Protop: saying "meds now" is a giveaway sign.
meds, now
the meds stop you from hearing the voices
the voices that tell you the troooth
>"why do my off-topic /misc/ threads on /k/ keep getting deleted?"
>"why are the ones on topic promoting Russia refuted with evidence, and morally sound ethos?"
>"it must be a shillfarm."
vatBlack folk and skitzos really believe this
Why does do they come to this board, ,99% of their posts belong on /misc/ maybe even /b/?
This isn’t anti-US. It’s just a small military arms deal
Wow what an absolutely moronic post.
t.australian
they arent ''information warfare handlers'', just genuinely room temp i.q american patriotards and boomers
The bots are going to enter into a loop and crash their servers.
Like clockwork
What is it about the F-35 that makes thirdies so incredibly butt blasted about it? Like, seething over the F-35 is probably the second most common thread on /k/ lately, only beat by Ukraine threads
China, Russia, Turkey and other assorted shitholes around the world are absolutely terrified of it and of American stealth tech more generally
A single wing of f-35s in Romania could wipe out the russian black sea fleet and destroy all russian air force and air defense units in Ukraine
Hence they finance massive disinfo campaigns to try and stop the US from buying more while they desperately try to catch up
>Finance major disinformation campaign
>On 4chin
Bruh
First day here?
While there is definitely some amount of actual paid shills/bots from Russia and China on PrepHole they mostly stick to /misc/. On /k/ it's just idiots who are swallowing the propaganda and regurgitating it here. Like when we say "they're not sending their best" it's actually more like they're not sending anyone at all, it's literal bottom feeders who come here to cope armed with Kremlin coping points
Agree, but you are delusional if you don't think CCP shills are on here. They're not poltards either, I remember a few posting a bunch of images that were only available on Chinese websites, coupled with typical wolf warrior narratives and talking points.
And they spam 4-5 threads a day, a few get deleted, some of them get banned but usually jannie does nothing.
Yes there are some obvious shill posts even here on /k/, but I suspect most of the thirdie seethe is just certified organic morons
Yeah, just /misc/ spillover and the small army of DHS employees sent here to monitor """""domestic extremists"""""".
Oh the feds are absolutely monitoring, I just don't think it's the same exact people posting propaganda. Maybe some sort of honey pot thread every now and then
The ATF has agents monitor /k/. It came up in the FRT lawsuit. I doubt they’re the only one. To be fair, it’s not like they only monitor PrepHole. They’re on FB/Reddit/etc.
its glorious since the ukrop propaganda arm has been strong here, so much to the point where for once /k/ is finally the villain of a scenario
>pol is always right
>t.
>Tranche 4 with AESA radar
Nice
>Munich Airport
What?
>too poor to afford f35s
Oh no, have fun with your last gen fighter
What were you expecting, them to give their Eurofighters to Germany, and buy 200 F-35s?
Not Mexico?
Spain is going to go as far as possible to avoid buying American planes, and American weapons in general, as an example take the tenders to replace the army transport and attack helicopters back in the late 90's/early 2000's, the contenders were the apache and tiger for attack and nh90 and blackhawk for utility/transport, the army wanted both the blackhawk and the apache, but the goverment chose the nh90 and tiger instead, the Apache and Blackhaw were cheaper, better and battle tested platforms and the Tiger and the NH90 weren't in mass production. Well the goverment did the right thing chosing them instead the Apache/Blackhawk, why?, because the conditions set by the State department for weapon sales to any country that is not Israel, UK, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Australia and right now Ukraine.
Every contract stipulates that, in case of conflict, you need to ask approval of the DoE to use it, for most of the european countries this is not an issue, the only foe they are going to face is Russia, unless they join some international mission and these are more or less blessed by Washington, but not Spain.
Spain only have two probable "foes" around, one is UK, but going to war with them (or going to war with us) is as remote as having an asteroid crashing in Madrid, not going to happen. But the other one is Morocco, we have a big diplomatic crisis with them almost every year and almost ended in a limited military clash ten years ago during the Perejil island crisis, there's a fair probability to have a military clash between spain and morocco, specially when Rabat has an internal crisis and need some distraction (usually is us or Algeria).
Morocco is a longtime ally of USA, so no way they are going to allow to use any USA weapon system against them, Spain have zero chances of getting any diplomatic support against Morocco so the only thing left is having some kind of military deterrence.
If you have your best fighters grounded there's no deterrence at all.
And before someone asks, yes, both DoE and DoD have ways to make sure the use conditions on these supply contracts are not violated, this goes from forcing you to have the equipment serviced only by designated technicians than can be evacuated at any moment notice, to ration spare parts so you can't stock them and are totally dependent of America's good will to make them work, to kill switches that kill the weapon systems (remember how they bricked the Iranian Phoenix missiles when the Ayatolahs took over Iran).
And yes, this has happened before, during the Ifni war Spain had their fleet of brand new sabres and P-80's shooting stars grounded by Washington order, it was so bad we had to bring out some mothballed He111's bombers back to service because they were the only thing left to use.
From there we only buy French planes and now, the ones from Airbus.
PrepHole thread
Why didn't they just buy a few F-35s? They're in the NATO, right? They should've been in the priority list, right, if they'd ordered some.
Read
and you'll understand why.
At the end they will buy some of them to replace the acient Harriers on the Juan Carlos I, but that's all.