Posted on 12/21/2019 7:51:09 AM PST by tlozo
Less than 500 built. 100 - 1(more like 50) still in service.
“Made in the USA” still has some value doesn’t it?
The Russian Navy is sinking at it’s moorings, tug boats used to follow their only aircraft carrier which now suffered a fire while in port, the Russia army can’t even conquer Ukraine, and now it’s bombers are crashing. Tell me why people are so scared of Russia again?
A: All the way to the scene of the crash.
Surprised this plane apparently wasn’t flyable on the remaining engine and had to be belly landed. One of the advantages of multiple engines is to mitigate this kind of catastrophic failure scenario. Glad the crew survived anyway.
Now, because they've returned to their religious moorings, and have at least a token acknowledgement of God, they're the big evil Bear.....
“Made in the USA” still has some value doesn’t it?
Ask the Iranians and Vietnamese.
Supposedly, equipment made by the USSR was designed to fight a short war, and is not necessarily designed to be durable or fixable. This gave some advantages in cost, weight, performance, etc.
The only reason that the Left hates Russia today is because they make a useful foil against Trump.
Remember Hillary as Oama’s Secretary of State presenting Putin with the Reset Button. Then later Obama caught on mike telling the Russian ambassador that after the election he will be free to make deals favorable to Russia.
Right now anti-Russia is simply a tool to be used against Trump.
Cause they have thousands of nuclear missiles pointed at the US?
That’s the only thing that makes them a superpower.
Sure not their economy.
And one other reason.
Russia has gone capitalist
Remember Putin's speech and letter in Pravda after Obama's first election?
His statement, "America, do not go down the road to communism, for that is what destroyed Russia".
He knows the influence the KGB had on our education system and media.
He is afraid we will re-export communism to Russia in the same way.
‘Tell me why people are so scared of Russia again?’
To keep our eyes off of their collusion with China of course, in making them wealthy with kick backs and China stronger by the theft of our secrets!!
Underestimate your adversary at your own peril.
OK, so aside from all that, how did you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
Back in the early-to-mid-’80s the Backfire was the Soviet’s premier supersonic bomber, built in response to the USAF B-1. Today we still fly B-1s and the Backfire is almost completely out of service. The Communists built mostly crap throughout the Cold War, but they built a LOT of each kind of crap to make up for it. The crews that flew these things (and other Soviet aircraft) had to know that they were always just one equipment failure away from death.
Glad to see another one bite the dust
The rest of the world needs strongmen to lead them, even those with market based economies. This is what you get with fewer folks on the same page. We have the same problem but as long as there are more and more 401k’s our folks will go along. Trump is a strongman only in the sense that he bitch-slaps the impeachers and others who get in his way. No need for him to get violent. Just ask the Chicoms and the Iranians.
And they track our Navy by the merchant ships they hit and the tugboats hauling our latest ships back to the dock.
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