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To: Kuehn12
About the Flanker.

The Indian Air force beat a good number of our guys in a training exercise a while back with the Flanker.

We are flying 30 year old planes with 20 year old avionics in some cases. These are brand new. Don't underestimate them.
23 posted on 06/26/2005 7:42:22 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: redgolum

I want to bring up a subject that pentagon boys did, current article from Bill Gertz. They were curious as to why china was building a capability that goes beyond, "the baseline needed for a Taiwan scenario." Well come on, Chinese war planners know very well that in any war scenario with Taiwan will involve the US. They would need a military capability far beyond anything needed to defeat the Taiwanese, which pushes any possible war well into the future. Not the 2007-2008 time frame they propose.


35 posted on 06/26/2005 8:19:01 AM PDT by Kuehn12 (Kuehn12)
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