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  • January 28, 2019 at 6:44 pm in reply to: C-802 the best anti-ship ever made #1783141
    St. John
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    A question nobody should answer.

    January 28, 2019 at 6:33 pm in reply to: Switzerland fighter replacement plan restarted #2120353
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    Tomcat – 1977 was a very different time. The only perceivable threat is 10 times further away now. Switzerland is not part of NATO and doesn’t contribute to any coalition efforts. Any enemy that reaches them has already gone through a thousand plus miles of infinitely better armed European countries before reaching them. If they really want to plan for that scenario, then they need 1,000 F-22s.

    January 28, 2019 at 4:16 pm in reply to: Switzerland fighter replacement plan restarted #2120380
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    Tomcat – I’m not sure where you’re envisaging the threat coming from. By the time any threat makes it through to Switzerland, it is completely screwed. If any of its neighbours suddenly turned hostile because say Verhofstadt became the fuhrer, it is also screwed and no plane in the world is going to change that fact. If you remember what happened to Kuwait in 1990, that would be Switzerland. So if we ignore doomsday scenarios for which there is no possible solution, QRA is all they need.

    January 28, 2019 at 4:09 pm in reply to: General Discussion #221458
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    I notice amid the Yellow Jacket shenanigans signs reading FREXIT.

    Well the EU never was a project with the working and middle class at heart.

    January 28, 2019 at 10:29 am in reply to: Switzerland fighter replacement plan restarted #2120434
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    Overkill it isn’t, more like the opposite.

    Can we please define what is overkill for Switzerland? We’re talking about a neutral country surrounded by friendly nations who hasn’t fought any other country since 1815 and has never fought an air war/campaign ever. I would therefore submit that all 5 entries are overkill. The height of this aircraft’s duties will involve accompanying airliners with faulty transponders.

    January 27, 2019 at 4:43 pm in reply to: Rafale 2018 Thread: Europe's best Eurocanard #2120506
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    So they agreed to buy jets to secure a loan?

    January 27, 2019 at 4:35 pm in reply to: General Discussion #221461
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    AK – So there’s a small chance we might end up like France on an average day?

    January 27, 2019 at 10:58 am in reply to: General Discussion #221463
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    trekbuster – That guy was useless. I could have answered that question and I believe I’ve been answering it here. Yes, there will be tariffs on imports from the EU in the event of a no deal and also some interesting non-tariff, legislation barriers for vehicle imports, like SVA tests for every vehicle. And this will provide market share for domestic businesses to take over and force manufacturing into the UK.

    January 27, 2019 at 10:54 am in reply to: General Discussion #221464
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    Jonesy – We are also the largest market the EU sells too and there is far more coming this way than the other. 2.3m cars are imported from the EU and 800k are exported to the EU. Their dairy and farming exports to us also outnumber those in the opposite direction by approximately 3:1.
    https://www.acea.be/statistics/article/motor-vehicle-trade-between-the-uk-and-main-eu-partners
    https://www.dairyreporter.com/Article/2018/06/26/Brexit-could-hurt-dairy-in-UK-and-Europe-EDA-and-Dairy-UK-say

    Brexit has only been examined in one direction by most of the mainstream media. They’ve only looked at the exports side of it, and not the imports side and the opportunities that that could bring as regards domestic production/manufacturing replacing them.

    January 27, 2019 at 10:39 am in reply to: Military Aviation News #2120554
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    You never know, they might realise the error of their ways and hand themselves over to Taiwan.

    January 27, 2019 at 10:33 am in reply to: Switzerland fighter replacement plan restarted #2120557
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    Gripen is the only one they can afford and the only one that’ll fit in their mountain shelters.

    January 26, 2019 at 3:33 pm in reply to: General Discussion #221508
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    January 26, 2019 at 12:39 pm in reply to: General Discussion #221510
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    AK – We know know there are more imports coming in than going out, so when tariffs and NTBs are set, there will be more market share to replace here than in the EU.

    January 25, 2019 at 7:28 pm in reply to: General Discussion #221517
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    Well freedom of air travel will be maintained in the event of no deal apparently.

    January 25, 2019 at 10:29 am in reply to: RuAF News and development Thread part 15 #2120684
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    Deino, use the arrow to get to page 2, then go up to the address bar and replace ‘2’ with ‘292’ or other. Typing 292 in the box QuantumFX is showing doesn’t work for me.

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