What was that vulnerability again?

Oh, right, just spray the sky with missiles and maybe you’ll get lucky. :rolleyes:

Ever see the US night attack on Iraq at the start of the war? How many triple A were blindly fired into the air. How many US jets were hit? Not many and certainly none were shot down. So it’s ignorant to say that’s how the F-117 was shot down. The sky wasn’t filled with SAMs like triple A over Baghdad. Oh, I know… you were watching too much of that Vietnam movie were they just fired SAMS like fireworks, right?

Looks like China will get first hand experience at enhancing its anti-stealth technology.

Really… this is just show from the hawks in Japan. The F-22 is just too damn expensive. And like the F117, someone’s gonna find a vulnerabilty to take it down. A quarter of a billion everytime one goes down…whew! I wouldn’t want to see that bill at the end of the month.

would anybody be able to find these 3 supposedly under construction carriers using google earth?hudong shipyard did someone say they were being built at?

Google Earth maps are not anywhere near real time. I live across the street from a school and they’ve been placing portables in the yard over the last couple years. So I checked out my house on Google Earth and I would estimate that photo to be at least a year old. I hear some shots can be three years old at least.

I don’t know why the US worries about others having veto power. One veto calls off everything and the permanent security council is already and if the Group of Four are included will continue to be stacked in favor of the US.

I believe that the countries are submitting a joint bid – so they all “pass” or they all “fail”, because they won’t accept any of them not getting in. Otherwise there wouldn’t be a point in having the group in the first place. The bid is stronger for having so many countries with different traditional allies in, but the flaw is that one of them may be strongly objected to.

I believe you’re correct about the joint bid. They’re just going to have to make a deal or dump the bid and start over with something more “acceptable.” The ironic thing here is that I’ve read in articles that the US wants Japan but doesn’t want India. Strange you don’t hear Indians complaining about a direct act against them.

What happened to the ship numbers being painted over? Last I heard the PLAN was painting over the numbers to hide the number of ships.

Really depends on whether you’re talking about fantasy or reality.

Another pointless thread.