Posted on 07/17/2015 8:34:36 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Sure they can!
They’ll just tell Iran that they are in Russia’s debt for this latest scam, and demand some of that $140 BILLION Obama just gifted them.
Yep, considering the Iranians will soon be coming into billions, the Russians have nothing to fear.
Russia is now having to come to terms with this reality, while the U.S. is not... yet.
Probably why the left is doing every thing they can
to infiltrate our government and weaken and destroy
our economy, while saddling
us with ever more entitlement debt.
No one said they were dumb and they plan long term.
Got to wonder if the idiot paper monster that every new program generates is dragging them down as well. We never learned, and maybe they have created their own version to cripple procurement.
True dat!
I’m just not used to the Russians only doing a production run of a “few hundred” tanks. Ever since the T-26 in the 1930s the run was in the tens of thousands.
I hope that’s true.
With the price of the ruble so low Russia actually has a trade surplus with China.
Funny how their designs look strangely familiar. That last jet looks very B1-ish. Yes, very strange.
Russia will have a massive cash influx with the freed up Iranian funds. Thanks Obama
Why is that surprising? Russia exports crude oil and electricity to China. Russian consumers, meanwhile, don't have a lot of money to buy much of anything. Russia's entire economy is based on exports -- mostly oil and gas, but also timber, metals, fish, etc.
The B1 first flew in 1974. Sometime in the last 41 years, the Russians might have gotten a good look at one?
China's economy started out based on exports and look at where they are now? Still a lot of dirt poor people but a large growing middle class and millionaires as well. Maybe the Russians are getting smarter.
That’s what I thought when I saw that nose.
Wasn’t Bob “B-1” Dornan an occasional visitor to these hallowed e-mails? I would ping him and request an opinion if I knew his screen name.
Better to build the Cheaper older platforms in numbers that would swarm the Enemy. It’s what we should be doing instead of wasting Billons on the F-35 that cannot do everything they wanted it to do with a Cost of over $160,000,000 and rising daily per Aircraft. One size fits all doesn’t work.
Our F-22 is great, but we only have 180 or so of them.
For the price of ONE F-35, you can buy FOUR F-15’s. They are even developing the Silent Eagle that has some Stealth Capabilities. In addition, the F-15 is a proven Platform that can only be improved.
If Putin was smart, he would build hundreds of SU-30’s, 33’s and 35’s. They have their problems, but he would be able to overwhelm any Enemy with sheer Numbers.
> Better to build the Cheaper older platforms in numbers that would swarm the Enemy.
Tell you what, you go “swarm” the enemy in the cheap stuff. If I’m going into combat, I want the best. ;-)
WE have the best stuff, but we can’t afford the F-35.
It can’t do the Mission it was supposedly designed to do.
It’s just a Black Hole for Taxpayer Money.
Are you saying the F-15 qualifies as “Cheap Stuff”?
Besides, I was talking about the Article concerning Russia’s Defense Expenditures.
The presumption is that Russia needs this stuff in numbers, but they dont.
They don’t have any real enemies, the kind that attack you to take stuff, except for China and Chechnya. They can only fight China with nukes, and old stuff is otherwise good.
New development is for prestige, foreign sales, and staying relevant until the day they hope to have money.
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