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To: sukhoi-30mki
Then as a supposition, all of the military hardware, training and other logistical support that we provide to Taiwan is a figment of someones imagination.
9 posted on 10/26/2004 11:45:53 AM PDT by NY Attitude
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To: NY Attitude

Well one thing that has happened over the past 10 years is that Taiwan's qualitative edge over the PLA has steadily eroded with Taiwan unable to buy vital systems eg-they only have 2 combat worthy subs & no ship capable of launching vertically launched SAMs(essential if they want to have a decent chance of facing up to the 500 odd missiles China has pointed towards them) .The Chinese have heavily stocked up on next generation anti-ship missiles,AAMs etc from Russia during this period.


14 posted on 10/26/2004 11:53:09 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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