plz nic dont go into that, i’ll pm you tomorrow to explain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVNBkhp4NYE

BTW it appears Jon Lake has been caught with his pants down once again when he wrote in arabian aerospace that the F22 flew with external tanks. I can’t see any external tanks in the video, but then again it may be my eyesight.

Nic

ASMP-A fills a completely different role than the sub deterrence.

Sub deterrence is here to promise mutual anihilation, while ASMP-A permits some degree of escalation with its tactical nuke capability.

To a potential threat, it means you can still nuke him and not start WWIII, which makes him think twice before pissing in your corn flakes.

Nic

Afaik jackjack is australian. But i could have missed smthing. Back to topic : according to “Bild”, Saudi Arabia to deliver Mistral missiles to rebels (however you call them)

Well for once the word terrorist is the proper one, so we might as well use it 😀

Yes, the anti-American and/or anti-Western thing is amusing in a sad sort of way. Certainly the West isn’t perfect, as anyone in the West will tell you… but compared to Russia/China/Iran/etc… forget it. There is no comparison.

I live in the soviet republic of France and I beg to differ.

Nic

An F-16 was airborne for 13.5 hours during the Libyan campaign. Details at the link. Not all aircraft can do this sort of thing as many will run out of lubrication.

http://www.f-16.net/news_article4413.html

Do you know how many air refueling it took?

Nic

Just for the benefit of those who aren’t aware, what model of assault rifle do the “rebel side” generally use? They don’t look like a western design to me…

http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/visuel/2013/06/04/sur-le-front-de-damas_3423103_3218.html

Steyr AUG is western enough for you?

Call me a lunatic, but I think gas masks may have more to do hiding the faces of western type special forces/private security (mercenary) companies, rather than actually protecting them from hypothetical gas attacks.

Nic

And of course, you expect us to sit and wait what till you hit us hard “once and for all”. And you wonder why ppl like OBL hold water in the Muslim world.
A dying civilization imploding on itself is apparently your, nay ” the world’s” greatest threat, and not anglo saxony led by the self proclaimed “sole superpower” who have for the last 3 centuries colonized, exploited and ethnically cleansed huge swaiths of this planet are of course the “good guys”. Spare this MILITARY AVIATION FORUM your godless moralizing please.

The fact that starting a war between the west & the east is the plan doesn’t mean we agree with it. It’s just what the traitors we have in power have decided to do, and we can’t do anything about it. All the people in France who are against this are persecuted (freedom of speach my ****).

Nic