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2009-04-13 India-Pakistan

Pakistan honours Chinese air force chief

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Posted by john frum 2009-04-13 12:59|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 That'd be not counting the Japanese and US warships hanging around in the Sea of Japan.

Posted by mojo 2009-04-13 13:03|| 2009-04-13 13:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Islamabad is now trying to sell this aircraft [JF-17], produced with Chinese assistance, to some Arab nations.

Boy howdy, there's a ringing endorsement: buy the Pak built knock-off of a Chinese-licensed knock-off of an old MiG ...

Posted by Steve White 2009-04-13 15:15|| 2009-04-13 15:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Boy howdy, there's a ringing endorsement: buy the Pak built knock-off of a Chinese-licensed knock-off of an old MiG ...

Might work against an AK-47 or an RPG...if they can find any pilots.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-04-13 15:40|| 2009-04-13 15:40|| Front Page Top

#4 You're looking at the Chinese version of the F-20, with a few add-ons from experience with the Mig-21 and the Mig-23. It's cheap, and useful in a war with another second-rate Air Force, but India will clean their clocks. Factor in in'sallah maintenance and sloppy piloting, and you've got an air force facing a disaster.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-04-13 16:42|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-04-13 16:42|| Front Page Top

#5 F20 mission, yes. But look at the JF-17 from the top down. It's outline looks very much like the F-16.

Posted by ed 2009-04-13 22:00|| 2009-04-13 22:00|| Front Page Top

#6 ION CHINA, WORLD MILITARY FORUM > IIUC USA: CHINA WILL HAVE ASIA'S/WORLD'S LARGEST AIR FORCE IN TEN YEARS [2019-2020]. TWO CONVENTIONALLY-POWERED AIRCRAFT CARRIERS CIRCA YEAR 2015, TWO NUCLEAR-POWERED AIRCRAFT CARRIERS CIRCA YEAR 2020.

Also from CMF, IIUC US GENERAL: AT THIS TIME US NEEDS ONLY ONE AIRCRAFT CARRIER BATTLE GROUP, ONE LR MISSLE DIVISION TO DEFEAT CHINA IN WAR; + ECONOMIC WOES RESULTS IN RISING HOMELESSNESS IN JAPAN, + SINO-JAPAN RELATIONS IN RISING TURMOIL OVER DAOYU ISLANDS DISPUTE [Senkaku Islands], + CHINA TO FINANCIALLY, ECONOMICALLY DEFEAT THE US-WEST.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-04-13 22:07|| 2009-04-13 22:07|| Front Page Top

#7 WAFF > CHINESE MILITARY BASES IN IRAN.

POSTER - claims a newly potent/modernized CHIN PLAN should arrive in IRAN by 2020 to protect China's OIL/ENERGY INTERESTS IN IRAN + CENT-SOUTH ASIA. The INDIAN OCEAN likely to become the GEOPOL DANGEROUS PLAYGROUND OF WORLD'S MILITARY = MAJOR POWERS IN COMING DECADES.

Also on WAFF > WORLD POWERS MUST ACCEPT A NUCLEAR IRAN.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-04-13 22:12|| 2009-04-13 22:12|| Front Page Top

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