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U.S. plans $2.8 billion upgrade of F-16 fighter
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| Feb 2, 2012
| Jim Wolf
Posted on 02/02/2012 8:37:23 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
or Tornado fighters? You most likely mean Typhoon fighters.
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posted on
02/03/2012 9:27:40 AM PST
by
A.A. Cunningham
(Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
To: entropy12
How would a drone be able to protect our troops from bad guys who ambush them “just across the road,” as I am sure has happened in Afganistan and Iraq. Unlike an A-10 pilot who could use his gun and pick out the bad guys across the road,I don’t see how a drone could accomplish this.
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posted on
02/03/2012 9:36:24 AM PST
by
saminfl
To: saminfl
To pick out those rag-tag insurgents, all you need is a vintage jet fighter, not a multi-million ultra sophisticated jet.
Again, if we had surplus budgets, I would be all for spending on military first. But I can not see the wisdom in borrowing from China to build unnecessary hardware.
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posted on
02/03/2012 10:19:07 AM PST
by
entropy12
(Socialism has failed everywhere tried. It breeds mediocrity, corruption, nepotism & poverty for all)
To: entropy12
I'm good with upgrading the Hoover, and the pictured U variant just looks very, very, bad ass.
But "unnecessary hardware" only holds until you need the hardware.
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02/03/2012 2:03:30 PM PST
by
norton
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