Mi-35
Posted on 11/08/2007 8:42:53 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Mi-35
Why would they not be buying American equipment? Bribery anybody?
That’s interesting. You might have also noticed that the US dollar is going down and that some US defense contractors and overseas clients might get happier with that. :-)
They still buy truckloads of American toys.They are reengining their F-15s & are looking at AEGIS equipped versions of the Littoral Combat ship as well as anti-ballistic missile systems among other things.Since Sept.11,the Saudis have been wary of putting all their eggs in the Yankee basket.Money has never been a problem for them.
Somebody in DC needs a kick in the can.
Why shouldn’t the Saudis buy from us, since we’ve been protecting their worthless asses for all these years?
If the Saudis had US made copters and tanks, we could co-ordinate any ground defense of their sandbox much more easily.
And we could have had a way to recycle those petrodollars back to our shores.
But no—these useless camel humpers have to go buy non US arms—and from our budding enemy and former enemy, Russia.
We’ve had 34 years to make ourselves energy independent and look at us—importing more oil than ever.
The Saudis should be returned to their traditional past—as eternally wandering nomads in the desert. Whio needs friends like these?
Why buy a Hind when you can get an Apache. Are the Russians going to start advising SANG next?
They already have Apaches.
Incl. Longbow Variants.
The Hinds are much cheaper,can carry a range of Western electronics/weaponry & also a few troops.Good for heavy anti-terror work.
They’ve already reverse engineered the stuff we’ve sent them, they need other stuff to bribe the chinese with in case things go south with us.
...is that the pilot jumping out?
You can’t carry eight grunts in addition to the crew in an Apache but you can in a Hind.
Two reasons:1) They are already in possession of Apaches. 2) A Hind can do a lot of what the Apache can do, and at the same time transport a number of soldiers (unlike the 2 man Apache).
bkmarked, Thanks.
Cant fault them on that.
The Saudis probably get a lot more bang for the buck buying the Russian tanks. But for aviation, I think they should go more to the French offerings, save for the Mi-35.
The Mi-35, we should buy a bunch of those. They will do the job of the V22 for a whole lot cheaper, and most likely, more effectively.
If you’d think of replacing the V-22 with an Mi-35,well you might as well go for an armed S-70 variant(which already exists).While cheaper,none of these helicopters will match the V-22 in it’s range,payload & speed in special operations.
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