Before you jump on these figures with an argument *but US are much more developed and industrialized than worldwide average and therefore require more*, yes, that is true. Now, let us have a look at other developed countries and their oil consumption:

– Germany – 11.7 bbl/year per capita
– Spain – 14.2 bbl/year per capita
– Japan – 15.9 bbl/year per capita
– Israel – 14.2 bbl/year per capita

compare to US and Canada
– United States – 25.2 bbl/year per capita
– Canada – 25.1 bbl/year per capita

Considering the size of the countries in question, I’m not surprised. Just to bring the students in and out of school in my town takes almost 250 gallons of fuel, per day, or about 3 gallons/ student. There is room for SOME improvement with more efficient buses, but not much, you still have 1200+ miles to drive per day. Many nations, with higher population density and simply smaller, will have proportionally small oil demands.

Just pointing out, there is more then just economy or development to account for a counties oil use. Size plays a major factor.

Matt

[QUOTE=RPSmith;1205301][QUOTE=AndyG;1205264] …. still the only museum piece in the world which isn’t obsolete! ….

What about the several SHARs in museums :confused: :diablo:

Roger Smith.

And the Blackbirds???

😀

Matt

And do you have black budgets now? This is no longer the Cold War. You’re not going to hide a 2 billion dollar sub that easily.

Umm- why would we be hiding the whole sub in a black program??? :confused:

Matt

I do have to say that the B-1B has turned into something of an amusing CAS asset. They can hang around for a good bit of time waiting for a call, and in Afghanistan they were called in sometimes to do nothing more than overfly the insurgent positions at low altitude and obnoxious speed.

Rather expensive flash/bangs, but VERY persistant 😀

Matt

Some of the HAWKs were “newer” than the AIM-54s, as they benefitted during the 1980s from spares that were sourced through Israel.

Also, your average SAM can last a bit longer than an AAM. Each time you hang a live AAM from an aircraft and fly it about, there is a degree of damage done to the internal avionics and whatnot. They can be repaired to a degree, but most legacy systems at the very least (not too sure if this has been rectified on 21st century AAMs or not) did have a sort of “shelf life” as it pertained to time spent under the wing or fuselage of a fighter. A SAM sitting on the ground not doing anything isn’t affected by a lot of the stresses an AAM is when it is carried aloft. SAMs have their own things to deal with, such as corrosion and the like, but AFAIK those are less labor intensive to rectify.

Thanks 🙂

Matt

Flex, nationalism and religion make men other than rational beings. with both combined, I can safely say that men akin to Bush / Chenney and institutions akin to the AIPAC will have plenty of acolytes to run the party line.

I think Star Wars was an amazing movie and touched upon this very well. Remember that the Republic voted to have Darth Sidius turn it into the Empire. Today’s darth Sidius is the AIPAC and today’s General Devious is OBL.

Iran is just stuck in the middle of this. Like Naboo it shall be eliminated by a death star (read F-22s)

😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

Your point is understood, but man, your Star War’s-Fu is weeeeeeek 😉

Matt

They also did some stuff with a lineat aerospike mounted on a pylon back there as well.

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Movie/SR-71/640x/EM-0025-05.mov

Well, that goes into my “things I learned today” file 😉

Matt

Martin P6M SeaMaster, Vought F8U-3 Crusader III, and North American F-107.

oooo- Seamaster, I’d forgotten about that one. Better performance then a B-52, and amphibious… :drool:

Matt