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Russian rubbish? India reportedly disappointed with stealth fighters from Moscow
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| January 26, 2014
| Maxim Lott
Posted on 01/26/2014 3:13:20 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
Pic of the best stealth fighter in the world.
Send 50 mil per to my bank account in the Caymans.
To: ConradofMontferrat
My guess is that India is finding out the quality control of Russian planes leaves much to be desired. That could drive the Indian Air Force to increase its buy of the Dassault Rafale from 126 to as many as 220 planes as a substitute for the failed Russian design.
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01/26/2014 9:28:53 PM PST
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RayChuang88
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To: DIRTYSECRET
We dont need India. They need us. Think China and Pakistan.Pakistan? India doesn't need our help to do what it wants with Pakistan - they're not near peers any more and haven't been for decades.
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01/26/2014 9:50:44 PM PST
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Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: yarddog
If I remember right, Daniel Patrick Moynihan claimed to have actually seen the boxes. He recognized them as being U.S. provided but they had painted over then re-stenciled the Russian name on them.
That is just plain despicable.
I tried to Google a little about this, since it did indeed sound despicable and also stupid - there have to be easier ways to make your people believe that the Soviets are helping them than hand-painting hundreds of thousands of containers in some language they don't understand.
I found that Nixon cut off assistance to India in 1971, and it was never resumed, by India's request. Moynihan was US ambassador to India from 1973-1975, and indeed there was a threat of severe famine in India in 1973 due to drought and a massive influx of refugees from Bangladesh. India received food aid from the US through private organizations like CARE, but it purchased wheat from the US government. Google has
some excerpts from Moynihan's letters:
"The starving time appears to be at hand. The words begin to appear in the press....Kissinger has been extraordinary in getting me what I asked. A cable last night reported that after talking with Butz it was evident that the Indians could buy three to four million tons of grain if they moved immediately...I make clear that we are not giving them anything, merely offering to help them buy with hard cash at inflated prices."
This does not mean that India couldn't have stenciled 'USSR' on packages labeled 'CARE', or whatever containers the purchased wheat came in, of course - but I wasn't able to find anything indicating this. What I did find is that Moynihan's published letters make for interesting reading about the US and the world during that time - I'll be buying a copy.
To: molson209
Guilty Sukhoi employee: "Mail-order-me now, or you won't fly-by-my-wire too far away tomorrow"
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