Russian commander says MiG-35 equal to U.S. F-35 fighter

What, becuase they have the same suffix? :confused:

That’s stretching it a bit isn’t it?

Your so called point is totally out of place because this is not a thread about India (which Musashi points out) and second, India is a status quo power and poses no expansionist threat to the PRC. India has no allied requirements to defend Japan or Taiwan or the like, either (which also brings up the point why would the US intervene unless these nations were threatened). If you attempt to make a point, make them using the correct examples.

In the PRC – India case, it is the PRC investment in military infrastructure which is forcing India to react. Whether it be raising new divisions in the north-east, or modernizing new AFB or even focusing on its Navy. Its rather ironic. The PRC is the one leading the arms race, and then you turn around & claim that because India is spending, its all ok.

Its rather funny to use India as an example to justify the PRCs spending when it is the PRC’s spending which is making India react in modernizing its military when it would rather spend on social needs, which also have a direct political benefit. Google up NREGA.

What # India? India is spending because China is. Otherwise, just to meet Pak. specific requirements, it would spend far less. If China were to scale back its investments in defence, India would gladly do likewise, especially in the north east of the country. In recent years, the Indian military has a lot to “thank” China for, since pretty much every procurement plan kept in abeyance (to free up funds for economic development, or thought unnecessary) has received a boost thanks to the PRC building up military capabilities.

It is your logic that is absurd & your throwing around jargon fails to impress, seems pretty sophomoric as matter of fact. Apart from race baiting, its amazing to see the amount of insecurity you have versus the US, wherein it seems to be propping up all over the place, hiding under the bed and acting as a foil for every Chinese action.

“chinese build up is nothing but a reaction to the long standing US military presence to counter china” and this includes the India northeast, how? In your fervent imagination, perhaps. India is not part of some US alliance against China. And wont be either, unless China ups the ante so much that even that comes to pass.

China’s investments in its border warfare capabilities, its build of military capabilities in areas facing India – are what provoked India to respond. And these have nothing to do with the US. Or Japan. Or who knows which country you’ll drag in.

LOL, at your claims! Innocent cell-phone towers indeed! Roads, logistic lines, military exercises & cross border incursions, and in turn India should open “negotiations”. And you desire the PRCs neighbours would’nt react to such brazen displays of power. Hardly.

Bwaaahaha…after all the whinging about the poor Chinese victim, racial slurs and what not, now its the Indians who have “inferority complex driven paranoia”. Projecting much?

So instead of defending their interests the Indians should “I think the best thing to do is talk over with Chinese” & roll over and play dead.

Yeah, the whole “arguement” about why China’s spending in the Indian NE, is a US conspiracy beats us all hollow..

It could be worse. They could be Japanese. Or Americans. Or Indians. Your fixation with race and your race baiting speaks for itself.

So far, you have not been able to prove even one of your bizarre claims. The point was & is that India’s spending in its NE regions flowed from China’s increasingly assertive military posture & modernization. Which you attempted to pin on the US. Bizarre…

For those in the UK, does anyone remember that great TV show; ‘Goodness Gracious Me’?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNt63Pj2qV4

It’s a joke because it’s ironic, given the recent history of our armed forces. But then you know that. You’re simply trying to pursue an increasingly tired notion that one cannot even make a joke about anything connected with Muslims without being branded a racist – and of course nobody has ever quite established how racism became a dirty word. It’s all nonsense and I’m glad that the Great British Public is finally starting to grasp this, given some of the comments we’ve heard over recent days.

It’s perfectly ok to joke about muslims without being racist, just like any other group. However, the name ‘Hussain’ is probably more synonymous with recent US neo-con foreign policy, with the UK tagging along, rather than solely the preserve of the UK armed forces. I guess if history has anything to teach us, it’s periods such as the Third Reich that may have made racism a dirty word…just a hunch though.

Anyway, with regard to the subject of this thread, I find it comical that anyone could try to defend the carrier purchase. Six (or twelve on a very good day) F-35s is nothing more than tokenism. It’s absurd to suggest any differently. I don’t know how anyone kept their faces straight at the hearing when Hussein announced that we’d have six operational aircraft by 2020. Sixty might be significant but six? It’s a joke. It’s a classic example of Britain trying to punch above its weight and our beloved Navy still failing to accept that we do not “rule the waves” any longer. As we learned through the hearing, we almost lost the Tornado fleet in order to finance this ridiculous white elephant. Make no mistake – it is a project which only the Navy wanted, in order that they could remain in the fixed wing business. These people have no regard for our defence needs or our dire financial situation – they simply prefer to carry-on pursuing an out-dated notion that the Senior Service should prevail. It’s a disgrace.

The future carrier plans would indeed be a joke if there was a significant shift in our foreign policy with regards to our strategic and military alliances. If we decide to play a less intrinsic role in any future conflicts, reduce our commitments towards NATO and a cooling of the ‘special’ trans-atlantic relationship with the US, then perhaps you may have an urgument. However, given historical precidents, these scenarios are highly unlikely to occur any time in the near to medium term.

Rear Admiral Hussein (I kid you not) from the MoD…

Why would that be a joke?

That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age. – Pandit Nehru on his death.

The victory in WW2 alone qualifies him as great.

We need strong will from world leaders Stalin is just one example I can think of several U.S presidents too.

Seriously, WTF?!

Those RD-33s don’t seem to be on equal thrust settings in that pic above, given the different morphology on the engine exhaust nozzles.