Breaking: Moscow to ban US from using Russian rocket engines for military launches

RT ^ | 5-13-2014 | RT

[Jack Hydrazine]

That’s me dehydrated!

[sickoflibs]

RE:” It did for about five minutes, 10-12 years ago, when we were looking at withdrawal of the F-14 from service (thanks to Big Dick Cheney and “41”) with no replacement anywhere close to its performance in sight. (Still the situation, we're just forging ahead without a solution.)
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Bugs and Slammers is a virtuous combination, don't get me wrong, but they haven't anything like the range, payload, and combat virtuosity that the F-14’s loaded up with Phoenix missiles did. It looks like our luck is running out now, as China and Russia muscle up to take us on, and even the Iranians want a piece of us. “

Yes but instead we liberated both Iraq and Afghanistan , then rebuilt them and turned them into Democratic versions of Hong Kong.

We are universally respected around the world for those two successes, as much $$$ and manpower as it cost.

Let Russia or China beat that,

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

RT is Russian Television, or as it is known on the street,
“Station KGB”.

Sometimes accurate but also a lot of KGB/SFB disinformation coming out of it. Has some American employees to provide cover for the real reds.

Worth reading but with a grain of salt.

[Eagles6]

Yes

[AnAmericanInEngland]

The Columbia Accident Investigation Board killed the Space Shuttle, Not Obama. The shuttle was allowed to finish ISS, and actually flew a bit longer than CAIB envisioned. Obama did kill the Constellation replacement program.

[Lent]

So the Russians will be out 60 million per person per trip. Their loss our gain.

[lentulusgracchus]

I didn't see any <sarc> or <irony> tags .... ?

[lentulusgracchus]

Obama did kill the Constellation replacement program.

Any chance he just wanted us out of the space business, to turn space into a Russo-Chinese playground and weapons platform?

Oh, and I thought I heard (correct me if I'm wrong) that Obama did nix some plans to extend the shuttle for a couple of years, even as an unmanned cargo truck for ISS deliveries.

[lentulusgracchus]

The Chinese have CCTV, which I call "Chi Com TV" ..... lots of hot news stories featuring some Party hack / government mandarin droning on about the accomplishment of our new Five-Year Plan.

And they do love to tell you about American screwups.

Over the weekend they did a long piece about immigration and the border-security initiatives of the last 10 years.

Their main interviewees were Left NGO scum who badmouthed their country and compared it directly -- with CCTV splicing in footage of Vopos shooting at people -- to the Berlin Wall in 1961.

Some people just need a bad accident. Lying, lowlife NGO scum running down America to camera-toting Chinese Communist technoslime, on American soil no less.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”I didn't see any < sarc > or < irony > tags .... ? “

I don't recall those in any HTML tag dictionaries.

[GladesGuru]

Spaace-X.