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Correct. However the B-2 does not even produce these "Anomolies" unless it is dumping its payload, and the F-22 has lower maintence costs and is fast and manuverable enough that it would be very difficult to follow up on the minor returns it does produce. That is why the 117 is being retired.

As it stands the Pakistani army is not capable of controlling the population within it's own boarders, forget about the ability to invade a foreign country. Now, sure, I have no doubt it could move in and kill anyone who looks at them crosswise and "Pacify" these areas, but then what happens...

Yeah, they still teach dogfighting skill however. If for example, your C&C and AWACS support is gone and you can't use your radar for some reason, you may need to engage inside visual range. Also, in Vietnam, the US had the policy of not engaging until visual range to make sure the targets were...

Since the 70's the US has not invested in any significant airframe improvements not relating to stealth technology. Why? Back in the days of the F-4 phantom just about all the Jet Jockies had realized that you could jack the afterburners to the limit and go up to 1400MPH and pull 9 G turns all...

I think that response by Stealth Assassin was a little bit of sarcasm. India does not have much in the way of influence in the US, it just sends alot of kids to our universities, and Indians run alot of gas stations on the east coast. Pakistan in the news at the moment because it is full of...

BB is not the horse the U.S is backing, you may get the impression from the media, but don't let that fool you. Bush doesn't want to look like a fool, and reversing directions in midstream will do exactly that. CIA/Pentagon like military strongmen, BB ain't that. Do democrats on the hill like...

[Not Iran. I'm suggesting that Iran would trade by shipping with India. Central Asia, that's Kazakstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Mongolia, Siberian Russia, Afghanistan, Kyrgyztan etc, all will be trading through land routes with India. The sea route would be more expensive and...

Hmm. Bush wants BB to go away, as she would cause alot of problems since Bush has a buddy-buddy relationship with Mush in the eyes of the western media. However, there is no way to make her go away and even be pretending to respect democracy at the same time, and so his advisers come up with a...

On the subject of leverage.... Pakistan has an approx. 18 billion dollar national budget, while it has over 20 billion dollars in loans from the United states or it interests, with 36 billion in foreign debt overall, and receives about 300 million dollars a year in direct military aid with no...

Well that is all great, but why do you suppose Israel would potentially anger its greatest ally by selling of technology they learned from the U.S to China? It is for the simple reason that having a bunch of SAM batteries won't really stop a modern air force. UAV's can act as bait for artillery...

Replace "USAF" with US electorate and you will be getting closer. There is a limit to how much money and humans the US is willing to expend. Whole individualism and press freedom thing... Anyway, the US had a 7-1 kill ratio in Vietnam, and it still quit. Why? Because the U.S does not like to see...

The soviet Union was not a superpower until after the second world war, neither was the U.S. I don't think Germany could be considered significant regional opposition after 1945. As for his Agricultural policies not being disatourous, well, maybe not in the long run, but during the transition...

Thats precisely what I was implying, the only way Pakistan would become a superpower anytime soon is if some really terrible things were to happen to the current powers that be, or it violently overhaul it's existing situation. I don't think either of those things are good. So, people of...

Some notes. Check your history, the Soviet Union had an extremely Literate populace compared to say...Anywhere else in the content of Asia during the time frame it existed(by WW2 almost 90%). Police in the soviet union rarely took bribes. That got you shot, simple as that. The soviet Union...

I have no doubt that Ackermann has a pro-India approach, but I was referring to the wider support for a limit in U.S aid to Pakistan. That is not the result of Indian lobbying. They are simply not a significant enough minority in the U.S to have more than a couple of congresspeople by the...

So, I have been playing a little game with myself. I am Iran, the U.S is about pore high explosives down my proverbial throat for what is in my opinion no good reason other than they are ****** godless imperialists.(That's a joke, please don't ban me) What do I do? Defensive measures just don't...

When you say Isreal and France are more technically advanced than the U.S, you have to consider it a matter of scale. Is the average Israeli plane better than the average U.S plane? Certainly, but Israel dose not have significant stealth aircraft technology, nor is it anywhere near the size of...

Really it has jack all to do with India. The U.S electorate just doesn't care about it any more than it does about Pakistan. The real issue is trying to make Bush look foolish for supporting someone who is now fairly well into the military dictator zone by (Admittedly liberal) U.S standards...

Using the standards of American AA capability, no not really. You can certainly spot them as the drop their payloads, and aircraft mounted IR catches them from about 7-8 miles away if they happen to be following behind. An oft suggested idea is not to look for the aircraft themselves, but rather...

Agreed. I thought that article was fairly well reasoned. It only has 3-4 sentences that are really debatable, but this is of course, "The western perspective".