[KC_for_Freedom]

Their entire economy is supported by Western technicians. If we pulled out, it would collapse in months. And their armed forces have no training or temperament to fight a serious war, much less a high-tech one.

Its useful to know that we have provided SA with weapons and infrastructure (air traffic control) for years. We cannot very well argue that other countrys should not do the same. I always thought it would be smart to put a (shut down switch) in the F 16s we have sold them. Perhaps radio activated from US planes?

[Bald Eagle777]

I was thinking along the same lines (hidden shut down utilities) for all of our high tech military exports. You never know when technology we sell will be used against us. We sold Stingers to the Mujaheedeen after Russia went in to Afghanistan in 1979. ... The tables of history turn.

[sukhoi-30mki]

Umm,the KSA has around 80 F-15S fighter-bombers(not F-16s)-those things can reach New Delhi with fuel tanks,so why talk about the range to reach Tel-Aviv??Last year the Israelis expressed concern that a Jihadi pilot may take off in his F-15S & launch a suicide strike on a Israeli civilian facility.

[Atlantic Friend]

"I always thought it would be smart to put a (shut down switch) in the F 16s we have sold them. Perhaps radio activated from US planes?"

You probably meant F-15s. And AWACS, too.