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India Turns Down American Fighter Jets, Buys From France

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 4, 2012 @04:27PM from the don't-want-our-freedom-jets dept.

An anonymous reader writes "While America had offered the F-16, F-18 and now the stealth F-35 fighter, India picked for its new multi-role attack jet a low cost, older French plane. Why? For one, it's cheaper, and two, if American/Indian relations go bad, can they get the parts and equipment to keep the planes in the air? It seems prudence beat out the latest in technology."

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french military victories by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-04 16:31 · Score: 5, Funny

someone in the india ministry of defense should google "french military victories"
1. Re:french military victories by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-04 21:59 · Score: 0, Funny
  
  "Lafayette was made an honorary citizen of the US in... 2002. "
  Wow, that's like mormon-baptizing their atheist father-in-law after he's been dead for some time.
  Way to go, Romney!
Re:Many versus Awesome by masmullin · 2012-02-04 17:23 · Score: 3, Funny

Other than motherfucking DRAGONS!
Re:Many versus Awesome by Hognoxious · 2012-02-05 21:20 · Score: 3, Funny

Quantity has a quality all it's own.
Especially when it comes to apostrophes. Always better to have too many than too few.

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