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To: sukhoi-30mki

Sell half of them on e-Bay and keep the rest going with the proceeds...(/sarc, sorta)


6 posted on 11/14/2010 12:26:06 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

I was thinking that Japan might be interested in a few of them to operate of the Hyuga and the Ise.

Those ships were obviously designed with the F-35 STOVL variants in mind. A few years of Harrier practice might be just the ticket. Work out bugs and develop a doctrine for Flight Ops, Japanese style.

Southeast Asia would collectively freak if Japan were to buy them, even though the very construction of those two ship and the planned 22DDH vessels strongly indicates the JMSDF is going to move into carrier aviation again soon.


14 posted on 11/14/2010 1:50:25 AM PST by Ronin (Add sufficient applied thrust and pigs fly just fine. However, don't ask about the flying monkeys.)
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