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2011-11-21 China-Japan-Koreas

ROK Defense Ministry Pushes Stealth Bomber Purchase

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Posted by Steve White 2011-11-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Potential buyers like the F35's advanced tech but love the F-15E's payload.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-11-21 00:59|| 2011-11-21 00:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Speed up the schedule. Buy more Hyundias.

Posted by Skidmark 2011-11-21 04:04|| 2011-11-21 04:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Stealth Eagle is a great plane. And they already have F-15s in their logistics system. It is a no brainer.

Posted by rammer 2011-11-21 07:57|| 2011-11-21 07:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Something worthy of an ROK investment would be the secret installation of 16" naval guns, emplaced like coastal artillery, but concealed inside fake buildings on the northern edge of Seoul.

The idea would be rapid and effective counter-battery fire against the Nork guns, that would neutralize or destroy several of their mountain emplaced guns simultaneously. 16" rounds would rattle the heck out of the entire side of the mountain, even dug in granite.

Such guns, inside a thick, reinforced, concrete shell would be close to invulnerable. Nork artillery, on the Soviet model, solely uses Target Reference Points for its fires, and they are almost incapable of lifting and shifting their fires.

In effect, it would be like broadsides from an Iowa class battleship.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-11-21 09:34|| 2011-11-21 09:34|| Front Page Top

#5 After reading this + related Artics around the Net, my gut is telling me that the SOKOR's covert intent is to SELL/GIVE THIS STEALTH TECH TO NORTH KOREA, as hedge agz domination by China???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-11-21 21:59|| 2011-11-21 21:59|| Front Page Top

#6 In an INTER-KOREAN MIL CONFLICT, Beijing wont care iff the DPRK is damaged as long as the ROK + US Milfors stay behind the DMZ, + NOT attempt to enter into the North.

In addition, many CHINA MILBLOGGERS support PLA intervention in any war between the two Koreas, TO INCLUDE FORMAL CHIN ANNEXATION OF NORTH KOREA, iff it means keeping the "devil" US below the DMZ, or better yet leaving the Korean Peninsula in its entirety. THEY ARE CONFIDENT THAT, AS IN THE FIRST KOREAN WAR 1950-1953, CHINA CAN ONCE AGAIN STONEWALL OR DEFEAT US + UN FORCES DESPITE ANY TECH INFERIORITY.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-11-21 22:09|| 2011-11-21 22:09|| Front Page Top

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