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You guys are clearly not fathoming the goegraphic situation here. The path from England to the Falklands passes Venezuela to the east. No where did I say it crossed over Venezuela. It happens to come close enough to Venezuela for the new SU-30s that Venezuela has purchased to interdict that path and keep the Brits from safely traveling down there along that path.

If you cannot graps that, I am sorry, but that has been the point of the discussion from the beginning and no amount of insults or ignorance regarding those facts will change them.

Re: If you cannot graps that, I am sorry, but that has been the point of the discussion from the beginning and no amount of insults or ignorance regarding those facts will change them.

Jeff, if you cannot read a map, I truly feel sorry for you and cannot understand why you keep saying you are right in the face of facts and any map? Look at any map and scale off the distances. The listed range for the SU-30MK cannot be wrong, the map cannot be wrong, the ruler cannot be wrong, but you sure are.

If I were wrong on such a simple point, I would not like admitting my ignorance, but I would! To know you are wrong and refuse to admit it, only proves stupidity and I hate to see you paint yourself into that corner.

I've enjoyed your past posts, especially on the Aircraft Carriers, but you are showing a side I find most unlike my past opinion of your knowledge on military and current political matters.

If you want to cling to this, okay!

I, the listed range for the SU-30MK, all maps and all rulers are wrong while you alone are correct!

Happy?

Jeff,
no one disagrees that if Hugo wanted to, he could send his SU-30MK on a one way flight to attack a Brit task forces heading down to the Falklands while hugging the coast of Africa way more than 2,700 miles away from the nearest easternmost point of Venezuela. The SU-30s would have the one-way range to get there, but that would be militarily unsound since Hugo has ordered only 24 SU-30s.

But that is not what you stated. You said “...the UK, IMHO, in either case, would not be able to get past Venezuela on the way down to the Falklands.”

I know how to read a map and I know how to use a ruler to scale off a map. I cannot understand why you cannot grasp this?