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That is true. But Chavez has a long, long, LONG way to go before he becomes anything close to an actual threat to US interests. That’s my point-we’re making a big deal out of nothing.

Haha, Venezuela produces 15% of the US-oil, Venezuela IS a US-interest :diablo:

North Korea could test new long range missile with 6000km range soon:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5089476.stm

What do you think will he buy some missiles from NK? Such a purchase could be quite interesting for Chavez as it is a rather cheap way of provoking the US (well compared to dozens of Flankers) and North Korea needs cheap oil.

A single B-2 couls quite easily make that threat dissapear :dev2:

Not that it is a threat to a Navy with 11 carrier battlegroups not to mention the USAF and special forces. The chavez government could be made extinct in a matter of minutes by the the USA and there is nothing 24 Su-30’s can do about it. :rolleyes:

Don’t you understand it or don’t you want to understand it? It’s not about war it’s about power projection. I’m not talking about a full scale war but about a deployement of some vessels in a coup scenario for example. The US just won’t send over a few ships to support a coup that easily if there are 24 Su-30s nearby. BTW Gaddafi’s air force and army were crap, the Libyans were arrogant and almost untrainable even the Soviets complained about it, not to forget the wars he lost against such formidable opponents as Chad and Tanzania. I also think it isn’t appropiate to call Chavez “Castro jr.”, I’m not calling Bush Fukuyama jr. either. :diablo:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5082006.stm

“First we are going to buy 24 Sukhoi S-30s and we are going to leave open the possibility of a future acquisition,” Mr Chavez said in the country’s capital, Caracas.

“An F-16 launches a missile, maximum distance: 60km (40 miles). Do you all know from what distance the Sukhoi S-30 can launch? 200km,” Mr Chavez said.

“That’s to say, an aircraft carrier that stops in the Caribbean. They [the US] like to stop aircraft carriers in the Caribbean to invade.”

Could this be the end of gunboat policy? 😎

Thanks for starting this topic flex, with high oil prices and Chávez getting more and more megalomanic the Venezuelan air force could become a very interesting topic. According to the fav-club forum two Su-30 demonstrators, piloted by Venezuelan pilots, will overfly the independence parade on July the fifth and the first fighters will arrive in Venezuela at the end of the year after Chávez’s trip to Moscow in august. There also rumours about an additional purchase of Su-35s for the air force and Su-25 for the navy. Let’s see perhaps the demonstrators will already be painted in the Venezuelan camo and with Venezuelan markings (the Russians did so in Algeria and Syria).
Chavez will also visit Iran and North Norea (supposedly to buy Scuds) to strengthen his “strategic alliances” 🙁
AFAIK the Venezuelan airforce is still in the need of an advanced trainer after the sale of AMXs was blocked by the USA, perhaps he’ll order some Shafaqs…

WTF! I’m really looking forward to you posts luisdo!!!