"Have they EVER invented anything?"For instance, Mi-24 Hind looks like its pretty original and not a knockoff/influenced by anything that the West had at the time.
Posted on 09/11/2007 5:59:17 PM PDT by Stoat
>>>The test comes as Russia spends massively increased oil revenue on rebuilding its military might.
To put that in perspective...
Russian GDP $733.6 billion (2006 est.)
(purchasing power parity): $1.746 trillion (2006 est.)
Mexican $743.5 billion (2006 est.)
(purchasing power parity):$1.149 trillion (2006 est.)
United States GDP $13.13 trillion (2006 est.)
I read that too fast and thought you said Chicano-Islamists. D’oh!
Them too. ;)
Jose Padilla?
I think the North Vietnamese tried to complain that FAEs were chemical warfare weapons. I'm pretty sure FAEs were used on SAM sites. The pressure blast did a number on the radar CRTs, not to mention the lungs of the personnel manning the sites.
And in a thermobaric, where does the energy release come from?
And death by suffocation over five minutes? What do you mean?
Thermobaric bombs don’t have a terribly negative oxygen balance, due to the type of fuel used. If they did, you’d never get all of the fuel to detonate. TNT is quite oxy negative by contrast.
A gasoline-based FAB or thermobaric would be limited to the air in the immediate vicinity. That’s why they don’t use it.
If you want to believe that the Russian thermobarics can completely eliminate human life within three miles you are free to do so, but I remain skeptical.
"Have they EVER invented anything?"For instance, Mi-24 Hind looks like its pretty original and not a knockoff/influenced by anything that the West had at the time.
I thought this was about Britney Spears at the VMAs. Wrong thread.
No doubt you'd explode this thing fairly close to the ground.
Oh and they dang near have the market cornered on camgirls. Apparently that’s how they pay for college.
Bet this sucker works great on bacteria.
“Bet this sucker works great on bacteria.”
Yeah, lots of heat for an extended time after a really punchy shockwave to disrupt containers.
Cleanup in quanat 5, cleanup...
Ok I'll give you baked meat pies.
Thanks, although upon reflection I'm wondering if our British Friends may have beat the Russkies on that one? In truth, I was thinking of the Peroshki (I've seen it's English spelling also as Perogie) and so I really should have described it as something other than a "baked meat pie", perhaps a "precursor of the Hot Pocket and filled with Mystery Meat"?
But alcoholism and hot tennis stars were NOT invented in Russia.
Not meaning to sound combative or pedantic, but my actual statement was "alcoholism as an accepted national pastime". Again, upon reflection, I'm thinking that even that mantle may have been first grabbed by Iceland? I'm not well versed on the history of "culturally cavalier attitudes toward alcoholism" and so I admit I'm unsure.
And again my statement was "certain hot female tennis stars" with the underlying meaning being that Anna Kournikova was indeed "invented in Russia".
The Russians perfected depressing literature but the Greeks invented it.
Point taken, but I would suggest that the Russians have perfected it so well that "Russian Literature" and "oh Lord, how incredibly depressing, don't make me read that" have become nearly interchangeable phrases, whereas the mention of Greek literature would not typically elicit a deep sigh and a baleful expression from the typical passersby.
He said there's a veritable world garden waiting the right people to put it together.
Think Catherine the Great ~ Iran is just a fantastic natural resource crying out for new, more responsible owners.
Oh, I didn’t realize that the Tsar Bomba was a nuke.
That would make a great tagline.
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Are you using the tilda (~) to avoid using the new, awkward looking dash (—)?
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