(January 27, 2023 at 10:18 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(January 26, 2023 at 5:11 pm)Belacqua Wrote: For example, it looks as though these super-duper Abrams tanks which are going to fly in to rescue our man Zelensky are difficult to use because they require fuel that's different from other machines. This increases logistical and maintenance difficulties. And the reason they are built this way is because Rumsfeld used the Abrams program to enrich the Chrysler Corporation, which was struggling at the time.
You're an idiot. The AGT1500 is a multifuel engine. You should perhaps take up the habit of fact-checking claims you come across. The engine wasn't built by Chrysler, either; it was built by Honeywell, as anyone who did even minimal reading to verify what he was repeating would have learned.
You're a low information blatherer who thinks he sounds intelligent when he deploys pseudorevolutionary rhetoric. Shit, I could have told you about the Turkish missile deal. And the F-35s weren't scrubbed because we were trying to control Turkey's purchasing. It was scrubbed because we did not want anyone to be able to examine the F-35 with a good modern radar under controlled conditions in order to defeat its stealth aspects. But that doesn't fit your tres-cool anti-American codswallop.
'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool ... I think you can finish this thought.
Thar goes for finding your military facts from Youtube videos. too. There's a lot of junk there and one must be careful.
As far as I know: the S-300’s are not compatible with the NATO infrastructure. And because it is also a modern weapon’s system, it is / was likely to allow Russians to infiltrate the NATO electronic infrastructure. So even the current populist government was not able to put them into service and is just making them root in some military warehouses. The US had even offered to buy these missiles from us. His Excellency refused. As a result we (who were the producers of some key components of the F-35’s) were kicked out of the F-35 program. After many warnings. And the only goal of that was (as belaqua pointed out) was to enable to allow his excellency to tell his electorate that he had overcome the tyranny of white Turks (I don’t really know what this means) and had refused to bow down to the threats of the West (In an era in which Donald Trump sent him a letter in which he told him to “not be a tought Guy” – these are the exact words). So this is the full story as far as I know
