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To: MBT ARJUN

The Russkies under bid us again? Why aren’t we making them for export?


2 posted on 11/11/2013 8:09:32 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (Remember Ty Woods? Glenn Doherty ? Forgot already?)
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To: Bringbackthedraft
The Russkies under bid us again? Why aren’t we making them for export?

This wasn't a new ship, it was a rebuild of a old Russian ship. Our last conventional carriers were made 50 years ago and are far larger than this. I don't think we'd sell them even if someone was crazy enough to buy.

11 posted on 11/11/2013 8:42:33 AM PST by Pan_Yan (Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
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To: Bringbackthedraft
Why aren’t we making them for export

I assume our costs are far too high.

I know all the cruise ships are built offshore, and the big container ships.

The only reason we're doing domestic stuff is domestic content provisions in military contracts.

13 posted on 11/11/2013 8:50:20 AM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's 3rd term: squaw Warren? Lord help us!)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

India’s Navy has 180 ships.

The Royal (UK) Navy has 79 ships, of which only 19 - yes, 19 - are warships.

The British Empire has been flipped upside down.

The English have committed national suicide.

Socialism destroys a nation.


16 posted on 11/11/2013 8:57:49 AM PST by Oak Grove (H)
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To: Bringbackthedraft
The Russkies under bid us again?

The Indians must not have paid very much with the front smooshed like that. I guess there's no carfax in India?

22 posted on 11/11/2013 9:56:35 AM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness if Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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