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2006-11-06 International-UN-NGOs

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Posted by ryuge 2006-11-06 00:13|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 According to Mil forum > Venezuela has reactivated its FIGHTER SQUADRON 13 and intends to re-equip it wid Russian FLANKER aircraft.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-11-06 03:46|| 2006-11-06 03:46|| Front Page Top

#2 The Sukhoi's a nice aircraft. F-15+ grade. But do they have anybody to fly them?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-11-06 11:47|| 2006-11-06 11:47|| Front Page Top

#3 I thought Israel was the neighborhood bully. Listen to the Bob Dylan song, and you'll hear what I mean.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2006-11-06 13:17|| 2006-11-06 13:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Mojo-

..IF the Venezulelan Flanker drivers get the same amount and quality of training over the next few years as our guys do...
...and IF they dedicate the same amount of maintenance to their birds as we do...
...and IF they design, develop, and train to use a command and control system like ours...
Then they will have a chance of dealing with our F-15s and -16s. Otherwise they will not survive their first encounter - assuming we allow their aircraft to even leave the ground. Capability and Ability are two very different things, just ask the commander of the Iraqi AF in 1991.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-11-06 13:45|| 2006-11-06 13:45|| Front Page Top

#5 What is essential is preventing "MKI"izing of those Flankers (what India did).
India's flankers are modified with French, Israeli and Indian made avionics.
Pressure by the US can ensure that Hugo's pilots have to rely on the default Russian export grade equipment

Posted by john 2006-11-06 15:51|| 2006-11-06 15:51|| Front Page Top

#6 And further pressure to prevent acquisition of force multipliers like Tankers and AWACs.

Posted by john 2006-11-06 15:53|| 2006-11-06 15:53|| Front Page Top

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