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2006-12-13 India-Pakistan
Pakistan will get most advanced F-16 aircraft
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Posted by Steve White 2006-12-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Why don't we just sell them straight to the Chinese?
Posted by Classical_Liberal 2006-12-13 00:03||   2006-12-13 00:03|| Front Page Top

#2 The Russians reportedly have delivered two? advanced SU-27/30's to CHAVEZ - Two vs 18, hence Chavez still threatens and a mighty arms race now ensues.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-12-13 00:06||   2006-12-13 00:06|| Front Page Top

#3 wanna bet they malfunction at disastrously inappropriate times when posed against us?
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-12-13 00:18||   2006-12-13 00:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Steve, if they were getting F-22s I would worry. As for F-16's, I have no doubt that the Chinese already have a better set of drawings than the USAF.
Posted by RWV 2006-12-13 00:19||   2006-12-13 00:19|| Front Page Top

#5 I am for total disengagement from Pakistan. Our aid has prevented four oppressed minorities from advancing a self-determination agenda.

As for the F16s, I guess Pakistan needs them to prevent hot pursuits from Afghanistan.
Posted by Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-12-13 01:31||   2006-12-13 01:31|| Front Page Top

#6 I am not against trade, just looking for a remote trigger, explosion, fire, acid, gas, little egineering malfunction... whatever flies under their noses? Maybe a combination of different approaches?

I just want assurance when they head towards our boys, someone hits "the red button" as they disappear from radar, is that too much to ask?
Posted by Dunno 2006-12-13 03:58||   2006-12-13 03:58|| Front Page Top

#7 So, what are they buying these expensive aircraft with, our latest financial aid package? Why don't we just stop sending these traitorous maggots any foreign aid and simply give the money directly to our aviation sector as a subsidy?
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-12-13 04:01||   2006-12-13 04:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Start worrying when:

1- Their pilots become a match for ours

2- They fly the F-22
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-12-13 08:40||   2006-12-13 08:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Stuck on stupid.
Posted by SR-71 2006-12-13 09:12||   2006-12-13 09:12|| Front Page Top

#10 This a real travesty. No, there are a lot of things the Chinese still want to know. They are offering $8 million on the open market for delivery of a functionimg P&W powerplant. They may have prints, but they still need to dissect a working copy. Same for fly-by-wire. They have prints but need to see all details up close to fathom how it really executes. Plus all the associated weapons suites. This is more than folly and stupidity by your US gov't. Give the funds to Lockheed if bribes are so important. Do no deliver weapons systems directly to the enemy.
Posted by SpecOp35 2006-12-13 11:21||   2006-12-13 11:21|| Front Page Top

#11 Next year there will be a mysterious crash of a Pak "F-16". Very little wreckage will be recovered and China's Chengdu will have a block-52 to study
Posted by john 2006-12-13 12:51||   2006-12-13 12:51|| Front Page Top

#12 Based on things posted here, I was under the impression that Pakistan only has workable advanced toys so long as American technicians do the maintenance. In other words, they get to swank around with their shiny toys, which repatriate large amounts of the jizya we've been paying, but only so long as we're willing to go along playing pretend. Separate from the China issue, how wrong am I, O Rantburg experts?
Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-13 13:16||   2006-12-13 13:16|| Front Page Top

#13 The best I'd offer them would be our most advanced Brewster Buffalos
Posted by Unains Ulise1126 2006-12-13 18:16||   2006-12-13 18:16|| Front Page Top

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