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Offline Bob Riebe

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Re: Chinese carrier conducting flight ops ... video!
« Reply #30 on: November 29, 2012, 08:56:46 AM »
Modern ships, tanks, and planes are so expensive because they are suppose to have the technology to be "force multipliers".
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Not exactly the same but this is the attitude that caused our military to go into Iraq under armed and unprepared.
It caused at least a thousand more deaths there than necessary.

You want to maintain this deadly attitude?

If you have read any professional military journals on-line, one major concern with the F-22 i,s if an enemy uses a nuclear air-to-air missile it can detonate miles away and wipe out the F-22s digital system.

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Re: Chinese carrier conducting flight ops ... video!
« Reply #31 on: November 29, 2012, 08:59:40 AM »
Modern ships, tanks, and planes are so expensive because they are suppose to have the technology to be "force multipliers".
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Not exactly the same but this is the attitude that caused our military to go into Iraq under armed and unprepared.
It caused at least a thousand more deaths there than necessary.

You want to maintain this deadly attitude?

If you have read any professional military journals on-line, one major concern with the F-22 i,s if an enemy uses a nuclear air-to-air missile it can detonate miles away and wipe out the F-22s digital system.




If that is the case then we should just be building big bunches of very generic inexpensive stuff.
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Re: Chinese carrier conducting flight ops ... video!
« Reply #32 on: November 30, 2012, 08:09:45 AM »
There is a lot to be said in favor of the KISS principle.
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Re: Chinese carrier conducting flight ops ... video!
« Reply #33 on: November 30, 2012, 08:13:38 AM »
There is a lot to be said in favor of the KISS principle.
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+1, HOOYAHH, I second the motion. "Keep It Stupid Simple"  ;D . No really, I completely agree.

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Re: Chinese carrier conducting flight ops ... video!
« Reply #34 on: December 01, 2012, 04:45:30 AM »
There is a lot to be said in favor of the KISS principle.
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+1, HOOYAHH, I second the motion. "Keep It Stupid Simple"  ;D . No really, I completely agree.

 
Ummmm, really?   F U N N Y !!!
 
I had those words in a slightly different sequence, but you knew that. ;)
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