peace through strength
Fight generation stealth fighters? Doesn’t anyone edit anymore?
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They have little to be “scared of”, unless they choose to attack us. We don’t shoot first.
Our military won Tet, but Walter Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America" said we were beaten, and congress obediently declared defeat.
Today, there is no one trusted in the press, and congress is too busy enabling the murder of born alive babies to act.
We remember Vietnam. Vietnam is now a trading partner, manufacturing center and part of a stabilizing influence in the area.
"We", that is to say our media-marxist-congressional complex, lost the war, but we won the peace.
What is the point of rattling Russia?
We are not at war with them. This needs to chill down a notch.
He also dismissed Russia as 'regional power' acting out of weakness ...
"President Trump has been very clear," Stoltenberg told fill-in host John Roberts.
"He is committed to NATO. He stated that clearly just a few days ago and also at the NATO summit in July.
But at the same time, he has clearly stated that NATO allies need to invest more. And therefore at the summit in July last year, we agreed to do more to step up -- and now we see the results."
In all, Stolenberg continued, "by the end of next year, NATO allies will add hundred – 100 billion extra US dollars toward defense. So we see some real money and some real results. And we see that the clear message from President Donald Trump is having an impact."
In July 2018, NATO leaders pledged their “unwavering commitment” to boost defense spending, following stern words from the president. The U.S. and European allies signed a declaration stating they were “committed to improving the balance of sharing the costs and responsibilities of alliance membership.”
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I found it an interesting point that the Russian Embassy (of all places) would admonish us to remember Vietnam, and the author retorted that what we should remember about Vietnam was Linebacker II in 1972.
Good point, Ivan.
I was a little young to remember much about Viet Nam. It was way over by the time I was of age. I have, however, read books. One called “Thud Ridge” tells about the fighter jets.
It tells of “blue-eyed, blonde” Vietnamese pilots flying Migs who turned tail and RAN across the Chinese boarder when they even suspected the F4 Phantoms were anywhere near - because our boys were “not allowed” to follow them. Better jets, better men, crappy liberal politicians.
I work with a lot of former AF maintainers on a military sales contract. Quite a few have worked on a variety of ‘platforms’, as they call them. Some of them have worked on the F22 or have worked on the F15s and 16s that would go against the F22 in simulations. They chuckle when they talk about the results of these scenarios because the F22 usually knocks most, if not all, of the OpFor out of the sky before those pilots even know what’s going on. I don’t ask about the details, as I don’t understand them. I just smile knowing that some of my tax money goes to such an awesome machine and it has an American flag on it. But, as amazing as the F22 is, and they assure me it is amazing, it’s old. It’s been around for a long time. Enter....the F35, a plane a few of these guys have worked on.
From what these guys have told me, the F35 takes it to another level in many ways. And given that it can be configured to meet the requirements of the different services and the different missions, within each, make it a very special aircraft. It has had it’s problems. But, I’ve been told that they’re planning on putting systems in that plane that haven’t even been invented yet. The ideas are just something an engineer drew on a cocktail napkin, kind of like the F16, and then they’re trying to figure out how to reverse engineer it. But, I’ve challenged them on the cost. Only to learn that, while it is very expensive, as each plane is made and subsequent models are produced, they’re able to reduce production costs, so what was a $100 million plane, becomes significantly cheaper over time.
But, based on what they’ve told me about the planes current capabilities and what they’re forecasting for the future, I have no problem chipping in for the $100,000,000.00.
This piece from a different source appeared earlier and was rightly judged q puff piece of F-35 propaganda. There are still major systems that do not work and are maybe even not fixable without a complete redesign.
“If a Russia... ever was to see an F-35 inside its airspace’,
And that’s the problem - to be effective the F-35 has to strap on so much stuff that it is highly visible, unlike the F-22 which the Russian won’t see.