Originally posted by BuffPuff
Look at a European atlas. Look at northern France and you’ll see a peninsula called Brittany. It used to be called “Little Britanny” or “Little Britain” as opposed to “Great Britain, the much bigger (greater in size) island to the north. [/B]

here we call this charming region Bretagne (Brittany), as opposed to Grande Bretagne (Great Britain)

and for a personage you maybe know as William the Conqueror, his name here is Guillaume le Conquérant 🙂

11a) Su-27 :confused:

if they were not separated by the channel Hitler would have crushed them attitude or no attitude. I am sure many times in the past, stronger continental forces have been foxed by the channel.

everyone know the sea is what protect them, but it’s also a kind of jail
hehe damn channel 😉

“the wings to carry him, the star to guide him …”

this one will be good for the dreams 😎

thx Franck

Re: Read this please

Originally posted by Twilight2002

7. French diplomatic standing with Turkey is questionably good, whereas Turkey has inflicted friction on Britain (one of the key makers of Eurofighter) by refsuing base and airspace access to coalition forces during the Iraq war over the last year.

IIRC, France was against the OTAN mesures and deployment of Patriot missiles and AWACS planes for Turkey, during the last Irak war

btw Valery Giscard d’Estaing was (and is) against the entrée of Turkey to UE

Originally posted by AirToAirCombat
I agree. The French are in violation of EU treaty on budget defecits, and they are facing the same baby boomer / pension problems that the US and other European countries are facing.

There will be even more pressure to cut budgets from here on out.

yep, what about the $477 billion U.S. deficit

Originally posted by plawolf
the iraqis remanufactured them, and that the dates on the missiles were the remanufacture dates as opposed to the production dates.

yes
and there was some of the same BS from the US administration aiming at discredit France on the Irak affair

from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website :

“Statement by the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Paris, 4 October 2003

The French authorities express their surprise in the wake of the report circulated by the Spokesman of the Polish Defence Ministry concerning the discovery in Iraq of Roland missiles allegedly manufactured in 2003.
The French Foreign Ministry Spokesperson has already issued, on 16 April this year, the necessary clarifications following the appearance of similar press reports. I therefore remind you of the information given on that occasion:
Like several other Western States, France exported weapons to Iraq in the 1970s and ’80s: Roland 1 missiles and missile firing systems in 1980-81, Roland 2 missiles and missile firing systems in 1983-86. No Roland 3 models were ever exported to Iraq.
No permit to supply weapons or spare parts to Iraq has been issued since July 1990. France has strictly implemented the weapons embargo since then.
Moreover, the Roland 2 and Roland 3 production lines were halted, respectively, in 1988 and 1993. It is therefore impossible for Roland missiles to have been manufactured in 2003.
A thorough preliminary check with the French authorities would have prevented the circulation of these erroneous reports.”

since, the polish colonel and representative of the ministry for polish defense, Eugeniusz Mleczak that did the wrong claims, has been obliged to resign

Is Great Britain a thing of the past ?

as a colonial world power, undoubtly yes