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Chinese Air Defense Now Top Notch
Newsmax ^ | February 12, 2008 | Charles R. Smith

Posted on 02/12/2008 11:04:48 AM PST by Fennie

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To: Fennie

When did a first class defense ever out perform a first class offense?


21 posted on 02/12/2008 11:18:09 AM PST by RexBeach ("Americans never quit." Douglas MacArthur)
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To: scooter2
Needed: Fifty more B-2’s and 100 more F22’s.

Add 5000 more Tomahawk cruise missiles.

22 posted on 02/12/2008 11:18:33 AM PST by FreedomProtector
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To: Shryke

“Really? Bush selling military tech to the Chinese? Can you point me to a source please?”

Maybe it would help if the administration would deport a few Chinese “students” and H1b’s working in our defense industry.


23 posted on 02/12/2008 11:18:54 AM PST by dljordan
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To: All

"Senator McCain, do you have any comments on this development?"


24 posted on 02/12/2008 11:20:57 AM PST by Brian S. Fitzgerald ("We're going to drag that ship over the mountain.")
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To: scooter2
Needed: Fifty more B-2’s and 100 more F22’s.

And by the time such a war is fought, advanced Chinese UAV's costing a tiny fraction of what we spent on all those new planes will launch kamikaze attacks and annihilate the lot of them in five minutes.

If war is deemed inevitable, it would be better to put the money into our own UAVs, and also into advanced space-based systems that can knock out China's entire electronic infrastructure in a preemptive strike.

25 posted on 02/12/2008 11:22:05 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: ex-snook

Not yet -

but they are going to, as the “American” left is, work with the Islamists to bring America down,

then they think they’ll be able to oppose them after that.


26 posted on 02/12/2008 11:24:46 AM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Shryke
“Really? Bush selling military tech to the Chinese? Can you point me to a source please?”

Yes, even here in FR land, delusional people want to blame Bush and Karl Rove for everything. They have bought into the mass media hype of anti war politics and the rhetoric of moveon (or is it moron). That is why the republican party and Conservatives are in such trouble for the past few elections. too many people (and trolls) follow the crowd and not their intellect.

I do not like GW for a lot of reasons but selling secrets to our enemies is not one of them.

Draft Jeb Bush

27 posted on 02/12/2008 11:29:28 AM PST by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country)
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To: Fennie

Good post, go to Newsmax and read Smith’s articles on China/Clinton crimes, it’s enough to make one cry:
http://archive.newsmax.com/pundits/archives/Charles_R._Smith-archive.shtml

In the 1990s, agents working for the communist Chinese MID, or Military Intelligence Department, penetrated the American White House at the highest level. China Resources investments in Lippo grew during the course of the Clinton administration, coinciding directly with the illegal six-figure Lippo contributions to Clinton’s cash machine. The money lines between Beijing and Bill Clinton all meet at an unused electric power plant in east Java.

The Clinton power bill has come due.


28 posted on 02/12/2008 11:30:36 AM PST by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: Mr. Jeeves

bttt


29 posted on 02/12/2008 11:32:10 AM PST by Free Vulcan (Don't think I can vote for you John, I'm feelin' like a maverick.)
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To: Shryke

Ya got any proof that Bushies whore themselves out for the Chicoms too?
Go to Newsmax and read more of the articles archived for Charles R. Smith to refresh your memory on the treasonous Clinton WH!


30 posted on 02/12/2008 11:34:16 AM PST by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: AppyPappy
...so was Iraq’s

Good point - the Chinese did the fiber-optic work on Iraq's air defense sites, IIRC.

31 posted on 02/12/2008 11:34:37 AM PST by Charles Martel (The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
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To: iopscusa; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; dixiechick2000; Grampa Dave; MeekOneGOP

32 posted on 02/12/2008 11:34:56 AM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: CarrotAndStick

It did in the day. That’s what the media told us.


33 posted on 02/12/2008 11:38:37 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: iopscusa

Huh? I am asking about Bush. Not Clinton.


34 posted on 02/12/2008 11:39:55 AM PST by Shryke
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To: Mr. Jeeves
Well, it’s quite obvious you have no idea what you’re talking about when you compare a UAV to a manned craft.

Contrary to the SiFi flicks you apparently believe to be “real”, UAV’s today are sitting ducks for anyone with at least a medium level air force or air defense system. And if you think the U.S.'s UAV's have any kind of advantage in this argument, you are sadly mistaken. They are much less capable than a manned system and will remain so for some time. Their ONLY advantage; there's no one on board. And that's not an advantage when someone can and knows how to shoot back... It's called drone target practice at that point.

35 posted on 02/12/2008 11:45:31 AM PST by Freeport
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To: Mr. Jeeves
Well, it’s quite obvious you have no idea what you’re talking about when you compare a UAV to a manned craft.

Contrary to the SiFi flicks you apparently believe to be “real”, UAV’s today are sitting ducks for anyone with at least a medium level air force or air defense system. And if you think the U.S.'s UAV's have any kind of advantage in this argument, you are sadly mistaken. They are much less capable than a manned system and will remain so for some time. Their ONLY advantage; there's no one on board. And that's not an advantage when someone can and knows how to shoot back... It's called drone target practice at that point.

36 posted on 02/12/2008 11:45:41 AM PST by Freeport
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To: Fennie
And Hillary is due to sell them the rest..
Maybe stealth technology, if they havn;t stolen it already..
America is just not equiped to deal with a treasonous President..
37 posted on 02/12/2008 11:50:02 AM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: TADSLOS

Heil Hitlary! Viva LORAL and Bernie Schwartz!


38 posted on 02/12/2008 11:51:52 AM PST by litehaus (A memory tooooo long)
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To: Freeport

Please - we aren’t talking about today’s Predator drones here. The war isn’t coming until 2020 or so. The game is going to change so radically by then that any F-22’s in service are going to end up looking like one of Billy Mitchell’s target battleships when the fighting starts. And I’m hoping that the Air Force is well aware of that, and that the huge per-copy cost of the F-22 is actually a cover for spending on other “black” projects, like Mach 6 UAVs.


39 posted on 02/12/2008 11:52:30 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: Fennie

And where is our wonderful news media thru all of this?


40 posted on 02/12/2008 11:52:53 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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