ROFLOL!!!!!!

Sad and funny, all at the same time. 😀

Matt

The Russian constitution is hardly set in stone. It is barely a decade old and was mostly written by Americans. We have no law restricting the number of times our PM can remain in office, it is hardly a requirement of democracy.

However, one man leaping from one office to another, with the primary powers of state following his position exactly, is hardly the spirit of democracy.

Matt

Nooooooo……..the point was the F-35C has longer range and heavier payload than its landbased cousin the F-35A. Regardless, if the F-35C is carrier based or landbased.:diablo: As for handling both have advantages and disadvantages.

My point (rhetorically made) was that comparisons based on CTOL operations are irrevelent in this discussion, since Australia has no CTOL carriers.

In retrospect, I should have added :diablo: , but I thought you had the trademark on that smilie :p :p :p

Matt

The A-4 Skyhawk was primarily a lightweight strike aircraft, who thanks to its designers want for minimal size and weight gave it a good account of itself in self-defence air-to-air combat

Sounds like the ideal for a cheap semi-self escorting fighter 😉

I concede the rest of your post, however.

Matt

What about the A-37? It was in the pipeline at the time, IIRC. It is a jet, which would reduce the political sting of being given a strict attack type.
A-4’s would also be a good all around choice, but I don’t know if we had too many to give away at the time???

Matt

ACK- Kalishna-kitty is expanding!!!!!!! 😀 😀 😀

Matt

Ever been to China or Russia? I’ll tell you, they are HUGE..

BTW, that does not mean I don’t take your argument seriously. But the Chinese and Russian examples show that it can be done differently. Especially given the fact that China has to bring 4-5x more students and pupils in and out of schools thn you do.

Yep, and parts of Russia are ALMOST as desolate as we are 😀 Per the Chinese example- how many Chinese schools have to serve students 50km from the school house?

There are absolutely improvements that can be made, no doubt. However, any foreign examples/models must take into account a geography, population distribution, and culture that are not easily adapted to a Asian/Western Europe mindframe.

Cheers.

Matt