Bin Laden’s gripe with the US began in the 90s apparently after they built bases in Saudi Arabia. Apparently Bin Laden believed that Islam teaches there should be only one religion in arabia, therefore he wanted the US out, the rest as we say is history.

My two cents:

Israel should do as Distiller suggests, announce that they have nukes and deter any aggression from Iran. Everyone knows they have them anyway, there is no point having a deterrent if nobody knows you have it. Iran has as much right to nukes as anyone, but as it goes against their best interest, Israel and the US etc don’t have to like it and can make life difficult for Iran if they want to. The UN should only intervene if Iran is clearly planning to use their weapons, otherwise it is just acting as a US puppet, there is no way the west can criticize owning nukes, we invented them!!

What we can say is “it isn’t in our own selfish interest for Iran to have nukes, and we want to prevent them from getting such weapons”, at least that would be honest.

If Israel decides to take out the reactors they will succeed. It may cost them alot, but they have the hardware, the training and the will to do it.

I for one happen to think that President Ford served his nation admirably, and from what i know was a genuinely good man.

The most intriguing thing about his presidency is that he was never elected to the post of vice President or President, yet he held both jobs. I bet some of his rivals were green with envy! :diablo:

I don’t care what anyone else says, the Lightning is a beautiful bird.

I seriously doubt the F-35B would be canceled, with the Marine Corps wanting it and two partner nations as well.

“RobL you are big mouthed poodle boy of Bush ape monkey and you have NO asnwer to that that would give me any satisfaction. You’re totally out of your socket. You are living in the cave age. You cant distinguish between your mum ironing plank and the short plank of wood zat I am as thick as. You know too litle your subject to make an impression on ME or any of us for that matter.

You absolutly have no knolidge of aerospacial, only a limited comprehension of what you are bubling about and a taste for escapism manure of the sort pedalled by Taranis fan club superioricist gurus. You push desinformation and there are TONS of it. You GOT ZILTH but your usual mythological manure, and you are not fit to wipe my beeg Franche harsse, from which I am educatifying you.

You’re talking to a guy who was a conscript armourer fitting 7,900 kg bombs (16,000-lb bombs!) to Mirage IIIEs at a time you weren’t even born yet, so don’t you come up with pseudo-specialist bulls because though I didn’t even make corporal I can spot spin,twist and ignorance on knowledge and experience only. Did I tell you I was at BA102 cleaning toilets before when you were not even before yet born before then?

Go back to primary BOY you’re not good enough to make the slightest impression on ME, i KNOW far better than you.

When i WANT to learn about anything, i go to the library and look in Jane’s, as i knw some libraries for as long as you have been on this hearth.

You want to know about it? Simple. The Spad XIII is superior to your so-called Typhoon. Any Franche schoolgirl can make better UAV from toilet paper than so-called BAE can. Dassault are Number ONE in the EUs. You should learn to discernate between you silent wishes and reality. Franche is always best, I am always RIGHT, YOU are WRONG. And I’m laughing LOUD. If you don’t like the fact too bad, try suicide, you should have been born French, and a fat, boorish, stupid and ignorant peasant.

Zen you would kno that ze Neuron is superiomongouser than ze Taranis becos it is Franche. Franche is always best.

Get a life, schoolboy. You are DISMISSED.

If you want ot be of any sort of usefuness you can tell me when the library closes……?” :diablo:

I’m lost for words on this one. :confused:

plus 30 minutes to get to the airport.

Depends on how close the airport is 😎

Well the Rafale has the advantage of being able to fire some BVR shots while at the same time ingressing in terrain following mode.

Other than that I don’t see what makes it more “omnirole” than another plane.

Nic

If you were using terrain following radar, then you would most likely be flying at low level, which would severely limit the range on your BVR missile, as the aircraft could not impart much kinetic energy on the missile. For the longest range on your BVR missile you need to be high and fast, like the Raptor.