Fine. I’m wrong. The Soviet Union was a glorious, utopian, peaceful, benevolent nation, who meant no harm to anyone. Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, the Baltics? They were simple misunderstandings. Stalin’s purges? A regrettable overreaction. Millions of its own citizens murdered? Impolite for us to mention. Gulags in Siberia for those who spoke against the government? We should really talk about something else.

More crack, anyone?

No one here says that we lived in heaven here in the East. Here we were allowed to only 5 eggs a month, no electricity, no heat and other no`s. What we`re saying is that our military strategies were for defensive purposes, not attack. Like a famous football (American football) comentator used to say : and that`s all that`s all about. 😉

Meat

I agree with your main point that the USSR was the real threat during the cold war.

Those that refuse to acknowledge the expressed goal of the USSR to subjugate all of Europe as a extension of WWII, do so in spite of the evidence. They have developed a series of arguments that basically rest on the notion that the western allies caused the cold war because they had the nerve to resist. If the west had simply rolled over all would have been fine and dandy.

Those who promote this nonsense usually never lived a day under the USSR and often as not lived under military protection provided by others. My feeling is that even those who were not left-wingers to begin with, developed low self-esteem as a result of not being able to protect themselves.

I could go on but you get my drift.

Sauron

And you know that because you actually worked in the military in some WarPac country.

See attachement of Argo and message 132 about that.

Thanks, Sens. Somehow it slipped by me. 😮

I thought the X 29 had forward swept wing too.

Yeah, but the Su is the only one flying.

I still dont get it :confused:

The distance between the ground and the engine naceles is to small for a pilon.

Has Zimbabwe ordered Super Hornets? What’s the response?

That would be a big fat zero 😀

US navy not in position to say because they have to turn short range fighter into tanker fighter so it can tank the other short range fighter to bomb people like in Afganistan. It seem like Russia always like to copy US design, they will even copy US strategy. weird yes. :confused:

When two (nations) are searching for the best strategy they might end up at the same results, don`t you think? Anyways…to save up money and if the strategy works…why not copy (as you said) it?