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India Turns Down American Fighter Jets, Buys From France
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."
I guess the brass in India really liked France's drapeau blanc auto-recall originally conceived in early September of 1939.
Who knew the surrender button was such a desirable feature?
And that too, is true, until you realize that the true purpose of war is to run a scythe through the popluation, preferably before they can breed.
Bill - aka taniwha
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Leave others their otherness. -- Aratak
I see your tanks, and I raise you one little boy and one fat man.
Rules for war are for losers. Win and write your own history.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
The blitz worked because the common man on the ground supported what the Nazi's were trying to do. Which is deal with the bankers and capitalists who were turning entire nations into slave camps.
The same thing happened with the Knights Templar. The prince of France worked together with the Catholic church to exterminate them for Usery after the knights found the secrets of modern banking in the temple in Jerusalum, established a conspiracy and started taking control of entire nation-states.
Incidentally, that's also why the west always ends up in conflict with the nations of Islam. They nip the problem in the bud by forbidding Usery. Christians just sort of turn a blind eye till things get really bad, then have a bloodbath.
Morality can be argued till you're blue in the face... but at the end of the day, anything predictable is deserved, and these blood baths are a predictable response to the actions of evil men.
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
The US is willing to invest heavily in upgrading old avionics while keeping the source for all the software. Would you buy a piece of military hardware knowing that the aging paranoid warcrazy manufacturer may have retained the ability to disable all those planes with the flip of a switch?
That's true. All you need is one Muslim in the US air-force to put his duty religion first and all your planes are disabled while Pakistan attacks.
The world must be a scary place for you, what with logic apparently not existing and words meaning anything you seem to want them to mean. You might want to sit the next few plays out while the adults are talking.