Funny, we went the whole 1980’s without a war. There were minor things here and there, but nothing to justify the defense expenditures of Ronald Reagan. Besides, unless you’re a terrorist or a terrorist sympathizer, you really have no reason to be concerned right now. Saddam was an abberation, unfinished business if you will.

ahha. So anyone who disagrees with you is a terrorist ?? And if someone is a terrorist I find no reason on why they should side with Saddam ??

So what about France building CVNs, Europe developing the EF-2000, or the A400M project? Surely an aircraft designed to ferry tanks and combat equipment around wasn’t designed for hurricane relief missions? Take your blindingly anti-US sentiment and find someplace else to preach.

Worth 400 Billion$ ??

A single A400M, EF-2000 is worth 250 Million $ ??

And yet, that never ceases to deter us from bringing it up all over again

It’s like the biblical ‘tower of babel’. Everyone speaks in English yet no one speaks in the same language. As a result nobody is going to understand each other.

And when you spend that sort of money, then you need a war. A war every 5 years. And that is exactly what has happened, and that is exactly why I am concerned.

Yes they have, and rather effectively too I might add. Thanks for noticing! But did you ever stop to consider that if some idiot hadn’t decided to go on some foolish and asinine moral crusade and use airliners to knock over buildings, your precious terrorists might not be being hunted down by the US military right now?

Ahh ! That sublime emotion called revenge.

I understand Afghanistan but sorry I do not understand what that Iraq thing was all about. But probably cheese-eating surrender monkeys and friends are not supposed to understand all that. Tough logic !

Defend a country, raise an army, maintain an airforce by all means but when a country spends 250 Million$ on a single aircraft and spends 400 Billion $ on it’s defence budget. Then I know as does everyone that the intentions behind such need not be the most noble.

Idiotic reaction nevertheless. Like seeing a crashed beemer and saying “oh well, I always knew those Krauts can’t build cars”.
It’s a machine and machines get ****** up sometimes. And afaik it was never advertised as Titanic-style uncrashable. Was it?

Now can’t jealous folks relieve themselves of their negative emotions once in a while already ! Do not get all presumptuous about it , will u ??

PhantomII dude how can you convince anyone when you come across as being so obviously partisan.

yeah, that is the MiG LFS they are talking about. VK-10M was supposed to power that. Aeronautics.ru had more info on that. And it’s induction date.

ha ! how the high and mighty have fallen ??

The human affliction of selecting healthy partners for mating has gotten down to the aviation industry and the fine art of aircraft building.

From the POV of certain self-proclaimed connoseiurs the X-32 looked like it has a some sort of human lip and gum disease.

This gives rise to the more pertinent question whether the human concept of beauty is interfering with innovation in modern military aviation design innovations. I think for sure it is.