Funny stuff

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 06-08-02 AT 03:58 PM (GMT)]http://www.brojon.org/frontpage/bj042001.html

AMERICA RUNNING SCARED FROM VASTLY SUPERIOR CHINESE MILITARY FORCE

— BJNews by Marshall Smith

Early Monday April 16, 2001, most world news services, such as CNN, AP, BBC, Reuters and the South China Morning Post were reporting the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk would be stationed in the South China Sea to provide fighter escort for future reconnaissance flights such as the recently downed EP-3E aircraft.
Later in the news cycle day the stories changed to say there would be no fighter escorts provided. What the news services failed to report was that the Kitty Hawk was not moving to the South China Sea at all but was, in fact, moving quickly in the opposite direction and high-tailing it off to some unspecified military training exercise near Guam.
Thus leaving the South China Sea completely in the hands of the Chinese. So far, none of the news services have explained this strange and dangerous change of direction.
Only here in the Brother Jonathan Gazette has it been shown the reason for such an action. Six months ago the Gazette published a story explaining another strange incident involving the carrier Kitty Hawk.
In October 2000, the Kitty Hawk was buzzed by two Russian jet aircraft. The news services all reported “Kitty Hawk buzzed by Russians.” In fact, the two jet aircraft were Russian built advanced fighter aircraft but were being flown by Chinese pilots in the South China Sea.
Last year the Chinese received purchase of a number of superior Sukhoi-23 jet fighters from Russia. In 1994 the Russians, sorely in need of money, had offered to sell a prototype advanced technology SU-23 to America. The Clinton Administration refused the offer. The Russians then sold the new high-tech jets to the Chinese.
The only advanced aircraft equivalent to the SU-23 is the American F-22, but it still is only a pipe dream languishing on the drawing boards, and many years away from even a prototype.
The Russian designed SU-23 is vastly superior to the decades old Navy F-18 carrier jet fighter. To fly and dog-fight in an F-18 the “Top-Ace trained” American pilot must use old “Microsoft-Flight-Simulator” type technology, zigzagging through the sky and aiming his plane at the “enemy” and locking on to fire missiles.
In the new SU-23 the Chinese pilot merely needs to run on auto-cruise control and using the new “helmet-aiming device” he simply looks in the direction of the “enemy” and can quickly fire six missiles in many directions.
Thus the Chinese pilot can quickly down up to six old-tech U.S. Navy F-18’s in a matter of seconds, all the while, he is flying straight and level, and like Jiang Zamin, grinning from ear to ear. Now you know why the carrier Kitty Hawk last October never launched any planes to intercept the new Chinese SU-23s.
For nearly 40 minutes the new Chinese SU-23s flew low repeatedly over the deck of the Kitty Hawk and shortly after tauntingly emailed photos by Internet of the scrambling chaos on the carrier deck. But the Kitty Hawk never launched any aircraft. Several weeks ago the Navy was pointedly asked about this strange incident.
When asked where the emailed photos came from, the Navy answered, “Go ask the Russians.” When asked in numerous differently worded questions why the Kitty Hawk commander had never ordered any fighters to take off, the inanely repeated non-response was the Navy equivalent of “no comment.”
The simple truth is no sane Navy captain would ever order his F-18 pilots to go up against even a single SU-23. That is why the Kitty Hawk is quickly leaving the South China Sea area and heading for “safer” territory, and why there will be no U.S. fighter escorts for any future reconnaissance aircraft in the western Pacific region.
Several days ago, following the jubilant release of the 24 Americans detained in China, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld reported how it was actually the fault of the Chinese which caused the downing of the Chinese F-8 fighter and the subsequent detaining of the American EP-3E recon plane.
He failed to point out, as reported here, the technique of using one fighter to tuck under the wing of a US recon plane, to prevent it from returning to its home base, while a second fighter was behind with missiles locked on, ready to either shoot down or force down the US plane, is an old ploy used by the North Koreans and Chinese since the mid-1950’s.
This ploy has resulted in the loss of many American planes, American technology and American lives. He also failed to announce to America’s friends and allies, such as South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and down to Fiji, Samoa, New Zealand, Australia and even Hawaii that the U.S. is swiftly moving out of the Pacific region and leaving them all to fend for themselves.
During the past two weeks of the so-called “stand-off in China” two events occurred which are still yet unexplained. While American attention was diverted to watching what would happen to the 24 US airmen detained in China, Premier Jiang Zamin was quietly moving through 12 countries in the Americas and tying up and cementing military agreements to provide the Chinese “Advanced Forward” military programs throughout most of South America and Cuba.
The same advanced technology which has the Kitty Hawk running for cover is now in Cuba and most of South America. The U.S. Pentagon will soon find itself defending America’s bays, rivers, harbors and inlets and maybe out to the 12 mile limit.
The other unreported ‘non-event’ was that Congress was in Easter recess during the “Chinese standoff” and now today they are back in session. While the 535 congress men and women were back home kvetching for votes, raising campaign money or simply lolling in the idyll of the lost American dream, the events of the world have passed them by. Like choosing from an old Chinese menu, “pick one from column A or one from column B”, the members of congress now need to face the grim reality of either choosing, (A) for the last 8 years they have been lied to, or (B) they themselves are liars. Pick one.

(I found this at a place where it was being discussed seriously)