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2006-03-03 Southeast Asia

US ready to sell advanced arms to India: Pentagon

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Posted by lotp 2006-03-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Lol, twisting the knife, eh?

Posted by .com 2006-03-03 03:08|| 2006-03-03 03:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Excellent news. India despite its faults (socialist, marxists, moaists) is a natural ally of the West and the USA in particular.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-03-03 06:50|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-03-03 06:50|| Front Page Top

#3 It's a great plan, I hate it, but it's a great plan.

I first started outsourcing to India 1n 1998. The US has built a tremendous systems development industry in India breaking thru some of the caste crap and building an economic engine that has become self sustaining.

Now the money is gonna come back! Too funny.

Posted by Skidmark 2006-03-03 07:37|| 2006-03-03 07:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Shouldn't the US assume the tech data of the full capability of any weapons India receives will be sent to Russia? There are still a lot of commies and others in India with fond memories of the Soviets. At least I hope the Russians don't actually receive an entire fighter (F-16A and Pakistan-China). I hope there are many modes, especially in any ASEA radars and ECM, not available in the export models.

Posted by ed 2006-03-03 08:07|| 2006-03-03 08:07|| Front Page Top

#5 AESA.

Posted by ed 2006-03-03 09:27|| 2006-03-03 09:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Now the money is gonna come back! Too funny.

Classic capitalism.

Re: tech info going to others, the F16-A is an old, old model. We're on version D and are replacing the F16 anyway.

Posted by lotp 2006-03-03 09:54|| 2006-03-03 09:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Re: tech info going to others, the F16-A is an old, old model.

Remebers me of a soviet joke: We should give all our technology to the Americans. This way they will be thirty years behind the technology curve.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-03-03 10:19|| 2006-03-03 10:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Good. India is definately a natural ally since both countries intrests are the same in that area of the world.

Posted by mmurray821 2006-03-03 11:22|| 2006-03-03 11:22|| Front Page Top

#9 JFM - I made a similar suggestion to send the Soviets everything we produced - in 80 copies each. It didn't matter if it was classified or not. We should have sent them every piece of paper the US military created, every piece of paper, every exam, every Masters thesis, every PhD dissertation, and every piece of paper produced by every company in the nation. It would have taken their entire population (and then some) just to translate it, their paranoia would have required 20 copies of every report, they wouldn't have been able to collate even 10% of the data, and in the end the entire house of cards would collapse. Well, it collapsed anyway, but my idea would have made it happen 10 years sooner!

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-03-03 12:47|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-03-03 12:47|| Front Page Top

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