Simviation Forum - The Bear Sharpens It's Teeth

Mar 2^nd, 2011 at 6:57am

patchz Offline
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Moscow – The graying bear is getting a make-over. Russia's military is launching its biggest rearmament effort since Soviet times, including a $650 billion program to procure 1,000 new helicopters, 600 combat planes, 100 warships, and 8 nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines.

Russia's $650 Billion Rearmamennt Plan

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #1 - Mar 2^nd, 2011 at 11:35am

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In a previous life that involved a blue suit and a silly hat, I was a in the RAF. At the time we had 98,000 personal. Since I left I have watched the RAF disolve down to it's present number, 38,000. The RAF must shed another 5000 and two Tornado Sqd's and the government is talking about a no fly zone over Lybia. The Russians must be laughing themselves silly.

Matt

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Reply #2 - Mar 2^nd, 2011 at 3:47pm

patchz Offline
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expat wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2011 at 11:35am:

In a previous life that involved a blue suit and a silly hat, I was a in the RAF. At the time we had 98,000 personal. Since I left I have watched the RAF disolve down to it's present number, 38,000. The RAF must shed another 5000 and two Tornado Sqd's and the government is talking about a no fly zone over Lybia. The Russians must be laughing themselves silly.

Matt

Let's hope laughing is 'all' they are doing.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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