Posted on 09/21/2004 3:17:51 AM PDT by F14 Pilot
did you see the Discovery Channel show on these bunkers? at best, in one of Saddam's bunkers, some of the doors wouldn't close straight. that's it.
that bunker complex at Tora Bora that we all say sketches of - never existed, it was a myth.
kewl!
how many do you need?
It's not like they couldn'y build bunker-busters themselves...The first ones were made from surplus 8-inch artillery tubes...ie the barell of a cannon.
If the devices are accurate you just stack them. The first goes 30'. The second goes >30' and <60', etc., etc.
> why not GIVE them the bombs?
Free after rebate.
Actually, we are giving them the weapons. The sale is from the military aid we give Israel. Israel gets the money and has flexibility in choosing what US weapons it wants to spend it on.
If i was in charge i'd ship them over to Israel for free and then they can do us all a favour...
The problem with giving this technology to Israel,like the Python-3 technology, is that it ends up in Communist China. Are you familiar with the new Communist Chinese fighter J-10 to be deployed on aircraft carriers? The J-10 started out as the Israeli Lavi or Lion.
srael Armed Chinese Fighter That Hit U.S. Plane
JERUSALEM – The Israeli army had "no reaction" Monday to reports that China's F-8 jets, such as the one involved in a midair collision with a U.S. Navy plane south of China two weeks ago, are armed with Israeli-made missiles.
A video clip of the fighter plane believed to have collided with the U.S. EP-3 surveillance plane shows a missile identified as an air-to-air Python-3, manufactured by Israel's Armaments Development Authority, according to the Israeli business publication Globes.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld last week released the video clip, shot in January, to illustrate the aggressiveness displayed by Chinese F-8 pilots monitoring U.S. planes over international waters.
China did a good job keeping the lid on the J-10 development. Until very recently little was made public about this project. What one could find in aviation directories about the J-10 was limited to the fact that the aircraft's design was based on the Lavi - Israel's half-hearted and eventually canned attempt to develop its own "F-16." Approximate performance characteristics and physical data were extrapolated from Lavi and similar aircraft but this was about the extent of the available analysis.
The J-10 is much more than just a development of the Lavi. The new Chengdu fighter has a potential of becoming one of the most significant fighters for the next few decades. The J-10 may very well be the next MiG-21 or F-16 in terms of its potential on the international market. I find it rather surprising that the J-10 attracted relatively little attention from aerospace publications worldwide.
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