Sudans resources are highly limited.

Ehem no, really not Sudan has giant oil reserves sells a lot to China and had the money to purchase 24 Fulcrums. This is not a question about strategy, limited resources but rather about desperateness and a panic situation as the rebels had already reached the outskirts of the capital Khartoum. I really wish someone would read my posts 🙁
Let’s compare it to this: a burglar enters your house threatens you with a knife you are in the corner and are in danger of being stabbed soon. At your right you can grab a china vase, you are scared of getting killed and therefore throw it against his head so that he passes out. Now this discussion is like: what a vaste to use a vase a weapon, a stone would have been way more effective, due to your limited resources you couldn’t afford to buy stones.

To put it equally polemic, lets cry because a SS guard pulling the trigger in a concentration camp died :rolleyes: Let’s not go to deep into politics but there is a difference between a war in a conventional manner, even with all it’s attrocities and a “war” which is intended to make the population of a region extinct (btw not the US nor any other nation on Earth currently deliberately drops cluster bombs on schools with no military targets around)

RIP

I’m sorry but I have to admit I don’t feel the slightest compassion for that guy. If someone decides he will work for the SuAF just to earn money, to work for a service which bombs schools, incinerates civilians and targets refugee camps he doesn’t deserve better.

Aside the shiny (and yet not operational) Suchois the rest is pretty much the usual South American extended police force.

Yep most police forces are equipped with Mi-35M2, F-16s and Barak surface-to-air-missiles. :rolleyes:

Indeed, Hugo is very entertaining in a nut-job kind of way, i think very few take him seriously apart from this little guy perhaps..

Man you still haven’t learned anything from all that? As one Argentinian journalist put it , not to be taken seriously is Chávez biggest strength. In 1999 nobody took him seriously, now he is the longest serving president in Latin America and has transformed Venezuela in his personal democratorship. When he started to talk about socialism nobody took him seriously now look at what’s going on in Venezuela. Everybody thinks that the talk about war is just a show and that he wouldn’t dare it, have you all forgot that he had the guts to stage his own bloody coup d’etat? Sending thousands of troops to the border could easily have resulted in war (Latin America has a long history of tense atmosphere and accidental skirmishes turning into war) and this step clearly demonstrates that he is not only ranting around. I’m more and more convinced that Chávez is deliberately trying to appear ridicoulous. Do you think that a dead serious president (let’s say a person like Ahmadinejad) in Venezuela who threatens the US with war, who builds up his own militia composed of one million people, supports terrorists and forms strategic alliances with Belarus and Iran would still be in power by now? Surely not, and Chávez has done all these things, the only reason the US doesn’t do more against him (apart from the oil) simply is that they don’t take him seriously.

LOL why they’re at it they could sue them for all those Mig-15, Mig-17, Mig-19, Mig-21, Mi-4, An-12, Tu-22 and T-55 derivatives they sold abroad. Would be a nice source of cash for financing the PAK-FA :diablo:

Tanzania fought quite a war with Uganda using Mig-21s and probably also used its MiGs in Mozambique. On Airforce with no combat history is the one of the Bavarian Soviet Republic. Panama would be another possible candidate.

great stuff guys:diablo:

that an-30 is not moldovan but “reconstructed for an african king”. sounds crazy as there are only 3 kingdoms left in africa, but look here http://www.airliners.net/photo/Aeroportul-Internatiomal-Marculesti/Antonov-An-30A/1306187/L/
note the roundel on the lower side of the wing at the pic Cy24driver posted: certainly not moldovan. anyone has more info?

Hmm Marocco, Lesotho and Swaziland if I’m right. I think there are also some smaller autonomous tribal kingdoms. One can pretty much rule out Marocco. Swaziland’s king already has a hideously expensive private airplane IIRC.