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US armed forces are now operating in India against third countries such as in Afghanistan but not only Afstan. Your vacuous attempts to align India against the United States with Beijing and Moscow which have no such agreements with India mean you are running errands for Moscow. You're on a straight line track from Moscow to here. It's also somewhat comical that both you and Kremlin think the world will believe and accept the given orders recited by an eternal corporal. We also see that your US armed forces oath to the Constitution has the same value to you as Trump's oath as Potus, i.e., useful toilet tissue to both of you. Some others here who were coasters simply recited the oath on reup then went directly to the pay and bonus lines to include the benefits window.

China russia and india are all in the sco and have defense pacts because of such, so yes defense pacts do exist. China and india hate eachother but then again so do china and russia, they are allied economically and militarily so long as it is mutually beneficial, the sco alliance adds backup to india if china tries something, or vice versa.

Keep in mind the strong alliance you claim with the us is undermined by the fact india told america to piss off over sancions over them buying the s-400 system, and recently again over them refusing to abide by us sanctions over venezuala recently. India works with all nations, they are part of nam or non alignment movement, however when they choose sides it is over what directly affects them, russia is their neighbor as is china, russia has been their most reliable ally for decades and china is the evil they know how to deal with, if it came to anyone invading china they would probably side with china defense pact or not to ensure the evil they know stays in place vs one they do not.
 
China russia and india are all in the sco and have defense pacts because of such, so yes defense pacts do exist. China and india hate eachother but then again so do china and russia, they are allied economically and militarily so long as it is mutually beneficial, the sco alliance adds backup to india if china tries something, or vice versa.

Keep in mind the strong alliance you claim with the us is undermined by the fact india told america to piss off over sancions over them buying the s-400 system, and recently again over them refusing to abide by us sanctions over venezuala recently. India works with all nations, they are part of nam or non alignment movement, however when they choose sides it is over what directly affects them, russia is their neighbor as is china, russia has been their most reliable ally for decades and china is the evil they know how to deal with, if it came to anyone invading china they would probably side with china defense pact or not to ensure the evil they know stays in place vs one they do not.


India joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in 2017 after ten years of observer status. India joined to combat Islamic terrorism and insurgencies.

Russia is in SCO to try to form a political and military alliance dominated by Putin.

China is focused on economic development and shares the opposition of Islamic terrorism that are major issues to Russia and India.

Pakistan entered SCO with India only because China would not agree to Indian entry without its pal Pak to counter balance India. These are the facts corporal that negate your fantasies about China, Russia, India united in fighting in a war against the United States.


“The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a permanent intergovernmental international organisation, the creation of which was announced on 15 June 2001 in Shanghai by Kazakhstan, China, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. It was preceded by the Shanghai Five mechanism” and now includes India and Pakistan.

What are its goals? They include “strengthening mutual trust and neighbourliness among the member states; promoting their effective cooperation in politics, trade, the economy, research, technology and culture, as well as in education, energy, transport, tourism, environmental protection, and other areas; making joint efforts to maintain and ensure peace, security and stability in the region; and moving towards the establishment of a democratic, fair and rational new international political and economic order.


Is the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation a Threat to American Power? | The Navigator Media

The goals of SCO are laughable.



A European Parliament researcher expressed her view that "institutional weaknesses, a lack of common financial funds for the implementation of joint projects and conflicting national interests have prevented the SCO from achieving a higher level of regional cooperation".[99]


[T]he fact is that it took New Delhi more than 10 years to get an upgrade from its current Observer status. The reason for the delay of course was the initial opposition from China to India’s membership. Beijing went on to ensure that Pakistan too became a full member along with India.

According to Indian mainstream media, India did not endorse the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and the Chinese led Belt and Road Initiative in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit statement (Qingdao declaration). This situation may create an economic and geostrategic isolation for India within the SCO bloc and apparently, it is not healthy for the bloc.


Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: India to use Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in its war on terror - Defence News India

India, China and The Potential of The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation - Eurasia Future



I remind you that under a signed agreement US currently operates its navy and air force against third countries from Indian military bases in India. India is by signed agreement a supply and materials base and facility for all US armed forces. Neither Russia nor China have any such arrangement. Nor will either country have any such agreement with India which is in fact a US strategic partner. India does not share or accept Putin's position that SCO needs to be a political-military alliance against the USA -- Putin's fantasy antiNato as it were.

Neither does Beijing accept or share that SCO is a military alliance against the West, which is the Putin view that you embrace given you are Putin's Errand Boy. You in fact and moreover joined the Texas National Guard as enlisted personnel to try to gain some military credibility, which beyond transmissions is a fail. Bottom line is that you post in your affected English that which you are provided by enemies of the United States. I refer to enemies foreign and domestic.
 
India joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in 2017 after ten years of observer status. India joined to combat Islamic terrorism and insurgencies.

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I know quite well what the sco is, I also know why china rejected india unless pakistan joined, that is because china fears india and they were afraid that joining the sco would protect china and india from eachother but leave their buddies in pakistan as free game.

China and india are in alliance through mutual gain not over a liking of eachother, russia and india are best buddies, russia tolerates china and china tolerates russia but hates india. Russia is friendly with israel and india is allied with israel, india is also allied with afghanistan.

India's strongest and most faithful allies have been countries like russia israel japan bhutan etc, america is a newcomer trying to do some ass kissing hoping they will forget everything in the past. india is not best buds with america or what can safely be called an ally, they go against much of the us foreign policy, flat out refuse to abide by any us sanctions and their allowance of logistics use for america was for the war on terror in which india has a mutual enemy and desire to combat.


Fyi claiming india is squarely a us ally because they allowed logistics support is like calling japan and south korea purely russian allies because they both are seeking russian defense pacts. However just like you misjudge india other nations can and do seek defense pacts where they can, japan and south korea are seeking defense ties with russia because russia is the big military power in the region who has more sway on china than anyone else there, simply put them seeking russian defense never meant they stopped being us allies, but instead stopped the unipolar thought of you must be 100% for or 100% against cold war mentality.


You can also stop it with the corporal being used as an insult, from retired nco's to corporal you simply show your own disdain and lack of understanding of military structure when you deem a rank to be an insult.
 
I know quite well what the sco is, I also know why china rejected india unless pakistan joined, that is because china fears india and they were afraid that joining the sco would protect china and india from eachother but leave their buddies in pakistan as free game.

China and india are in alliance through mutual gain not over a liking of eachother, russia and india are best buddies, russia tolerates china and china tolerates russia but hates india. Russia is friendly with israel and india is allied with israel, india is also allied with afghanistan.

India's strongest and most faithful allies have been countries like russia israel japan bhutan etc, america is a newcomer trying to do some ass kissing hoping they will forget everything in the past. india is not best buds with america or what can safely be called an ally, they go against much of the us foreign policy, flat out refuse to abide by any us sanctions and their allowance of logistics use for america was for the war on terror in which india has a mutual enemy and desire to combat.


Fyi claiming india is squarely a us ally because they allowed logistics support is like calling japan and south korea purely russian allies because they both are seeking russian defense pacts. However just like you misjudge india other nations can and do seek defense pacts where they can, japan and south korea are seeking defense ties with russia because russia is the big military power in the region who has more sway on china than anyone else there, simply put them seeking russian defense never meant they stopped being us allies, but instead stopped the unipolar thought of you must be 100% for or 100% against cold war mentality.


You can also stop it with the corporal being used as an insult, from retired nco's to corporal you simply show your own disdain and lack of understanding of military structure when you deem a rank to be an insult.

My beef is against rightwingers. So it happens to include prominently retired lifer nco posters the vast majority of whom are rightwingers. And now more recently it includes a veteran who joined the Texas National Guard for a quickie tour so he might gain some military credibility. You corporal being the latter failed. Miserably. All you've been here is a Putin-Russia Errand Boy.

I posted about the Shanghai Cooperation Organization so the reader could know with confidence your ongoing references to sco and sco only. You've never stated the full name nor have you used caps for the abbreviation. The name is in Chinese anyway which is why transliteration of it to English can't come up with an acronym of it.

India has for decades had two competing foreign policy elites. One is the nationalist sovereign group who oppose alliances except for Russia. The other group which is dominant of late is the Great Power elite that advocates engaging any foreign government that has any significant measure of clout to balance 'em off against one another. So with the Great Power elite dominating we see the crosscurrents of support, partnerships, alliances that India has committed itself to in the 21st century. Yes there is no doubt Russia is regarded in India as their eternal friend but we know from history what that is worth in the pinch. If for instance Putin gets his own "Cuba missile crisis" as he suggested the other day we can be sure India will be distancing itself from Russia and fast.

The bottom line is that the US is engaged with India and that India is engaged positively with the USA. Competition for contracts is normal, routine, standard. The US is getting its share, quietly, which is the India style. The fact remains India will never fight with Russia or China or both of 'em against the United States. You are both fantasizing to say it will and you are showing once again your Russian bear tattoo. So I mention to you again I won't show you my tattoo of Putin kissing my ass.
 
My beef is against rightwingers. So it happens to include prominently retired lifer nco posters the vast majority of whom are rightwingers. And now more recently it includes a veteran who joined the Texas National Guard for a quickie tour so he might gain some military credibility. You corporal being the latter failed. Miserably. All you've been here is a Putin-Russia Errand Boy.

I posted about the Shanghai Cooperation Organization so the reader could know with confidence your ongoing references to sco and sco only. You've never stated the full name nor have you used caps for the abbreviation. The name is in Chinese anyway which is why transliteration of it to English can't come up with an acronym of it.

India has for decades had two competing foreign policy elites. One is the nationalist sovereign group who oppose alliances except for Russia. The other group which is dominant of late is the Great Power elite that advocates engaging any foreign government that has any significant measure of clout to balance 'em off against one another. So with the Great Power elite dominating we see the crosscurrents of support, partnerships, alliances that India has committed itself to in the 21st century. Yes there is no doubt Russia is regarded in India as their eternal friend but we know from history what that is worth in the pinch. If for instance Putin gets his own "Cuba missile crisis" as he suggested the other day we can be sure India will be distancing itself from Russia and fast.

The bottom line is that the US is engaged with India and that India is engaged positively with the USA. Competition for contracts is normal, routine, standard. The US is getting its share, quietly, which is the India style. The fact remains India will never fight with Russia or China or both of 'em against the United States. You are both fantasizing to say it will and you are showing once again your Russian bear tattoo. So I mention to you again I won't show you my tattoo of Putin kissing my ass.

Your "beef" has been against NCOs, retirees, officers, veterans, the AVF, Marines, active duty, etc.

In other words disdain for your betters... Those who actually serve or have served.

Stop lying.

You HAVE backtracked on a number of folks once you were called on your condemnations.
 
My beef is against rightwingers. So it happens to include prominently retired lifer nco posters the vast majority of whom are rightwingers. And now more recently it includes a veteran who joined the Texas National Guard for a quickie tour so he might gain some military credibility. You corporal being the latter failed. Miserably. All you've been here is a Putin-Russia Errand Boy.

I posted about the Shanghai Cooperation Organization so the reader could know with confidence your ongoing references to sco and sco only. You've never stated the full name nor have you used caps for the abbreviation. The name is in Chinese anyway which is why transliteration of it to English can't come up with an acronym of it.

India has for decades had two competing foreign policy elites. One is the nationalist sovereign group who oppose alliances except for Russia. The other group which is dominant of late is the Great Power elite that advocates engaging any foreign government that has any significant measure of clout to balance 'em off against one another. So with the Great Power elite dominating we see the crosscurrents of support, partnerships, alliances that India has committed itself to in the 21st century. Yes there is no doubt Russia is regarded in India as their eternal friend but we know from history what that is worth in the pinch. If for instance Putin gets his own "Cuba missile crisis" as he suggested the other day we can be sure India will be distancing itself from Russia and fast.

The bottom line is that the US is engaged with India and that India is engaged positively with the USA. Competition for contracts is normal, routine, standard. The US is getting its share, quietly, which is the India style. The fact remains India will never fight with Russia or China or both of 'em against the United States. You are both fantasizing to say it will and you are showing once again your Russian bear tattoo. So I mention to you again I won't show you my tattoo of Putin kissing my ass.

You do know that today india china and russia just signed another agreement militarily right, literally on the fight against terrorism and extremism. To make the matter difficult india and pakistan have been at it since yesterday with two jets shot down, a pakistan j-17 shot down a mig 21 and an indian mig21 shot down an f-16, this puts the us in an awkward situation where it will have to pick and choose one or the other or stay out of conflict entirely.

Also the contracts with the biggest push being the f-16 likely will not win in india since one just lost in a dogfight to an antique mig 21, meaning if america wanted to sell they weapons they may need to reach for their f-15's and not try and sell the f-16's to them.
 
You do know that today india china and russia just signed another agreement militarily right, literally on the fight against terrorism and extremism. To make the matter difficult india and pakistan have been at it since yesterday with two jets shot down, a pakistan j-17 shot down a mig 21 and an indian mig21 shot down an f-16, this puts the us in an awkward situation where it will have to pick and choose one or the other or stay out of conflict entirely.

Also the contracts with the biggest push being the f-16 likely will not win in india since one just lost in a dogfight to an antique mig 21, meaning if america wanted to sell they weapons they may need to reach for their f-15's and not try and sell the f-16's to them.

Russians reply to India's complaints that the Su-57 is a clunker is that Indian AF pilots and mechanics are inferior. Both of 'em are right of course.

Plus no one ever said the F-16 Fighting Falcon and its latest iteration the Viper are untouchable. Almost yes, but absolutely, no. USAF pilots have said for decades that the F-16 is the "best place to be when you're getting shot at." So maybe having an Indian pilot modifies that truism for Indian pilots -- negatively.

India will not fight with China or Russia or both against the United States. Your contention to the contrary being absolute however, we see once again how fixed you are in your Putin Fanboy head. Moreover your Putinphile campaign to misrepresent negatively the capabilities and capacities of the US armed forces is never ending and it is a bust.

Beijing's Shanghai Cooperation Organization is about fighting terrorism, not the United States. This is the only reason India joined in 2017 after ten years of standing off and away from it. India is moreover vigorously opposed to Beijing's grandiose One Belt One Road stillborn fantasy and so is the rest of Asia right across to Europe. Only Putin is in on the Belt and Road corruption and debt swindle that is designed to take control of Asian states, as the Asian states well know to include Iran which is also a no to both Russia and China. OBOR is a bust too.
 
Moreover your Putinphile campaign to misrepresent negatively the capabilities and capacities of the US armed forces is never ending and it is a bust.

^ this. Constant and unceasing.
 
Russians reply to India's complaints that the Su-57 is a clunker is that Indian AF pilots and mechanics are inferior. Both of 'em are right of course.

Plus no one ever said the F-16 Fighting Falcon and its latest iteration the Viper are untouchable. Almost yes, but absolutely, no. USAF pilots have said for decades that the F-16 is the "best place to be when you're getting shot at." So maybe having an Indian pilot modifies that truism for Indian pilots -- negatively.

India will not fight with China or Russia or both against the United States. Your contention to the contrary being absolute however, we see once again how fixed you are in your Putin Fanboy head. Moreover your Putinphile campaign to misrepresent negatively the capabilities and capacities of the US armed forces is never ending and it is a bust.

Beijing's Shanghai Cooperation Organization is about fighting terrorism, not the United States. This is the only reason India joined in 2017 after ten years of standing off and away from it. India is moreover vigorously opposed to Beijing's grandiose One Belt One Road stillborn fantasy and so is the rest of Asia right across to Europe. Only Putin is in on the Belt and Road corruption and debt swindle that is designed to take control of Asian states, as the Asian states well know to include Iran which is also a no to both Russia and China. OBOR is a bust too.

Indias complaint about the su57 was not it being a clunker, it was that the composite body made it too difficult to augment and repair, and that it's systems were too complex for simple maintenance all being intertwined rather than modular like older flanker models. India has a known habit of demanding too much and crying when the price goes up, they do it with all of their contracts, start with a fixed price, demand a bunch of addons then demand the price not go up. The su-57 is stealthy from only a frontal aspect, but you do need to realize india had no tech capable of designing their own fifth gen fighter, and russia did not have the decades it took for the f22 and f35 to build a system just for export since they do not believe in stealth anyways. Fyi the su-57 project is still going, but it looks like they want to take the progress of the su57 and adapt it to their cheaper su30mki jets.

India will fight for countries when it suits their regional security, they will not send their troops all over the world on another nations behalf but they would defend their neighbors even the ones they hate like china to ensure the evil they know does not get replaced by one they do not.

The f-16 does not even come close to even almost untouchable, it is inferior to the f-15 in every aspect except in turning, and much like the f-15 and the su-27 has never been used against any competent airforce and often times against enemies that could be taken out with p-51 mustangs, like against serbia with mig 29 jets so out of repair they had no functioning weapons, radars, iff identifiers, etc, they were flying them just to look tuff and in the state oif disrepair they were in it was a miracle they could even do that.

The sco is regional security and economic cooperation, not just counter terrorism, the entire sco premise started from an earlier treaty organization between former soviet states and china to prevent former soviet states from going to war with eachother over border disputes, and to put a collective defense and collective political pressure to keep former soviet states cooperating economically and diplomatically rather than fighting eachother.
 
Indias complaint about the su57 was not it being a clunker, it was that the composite body made it too difficult to augment and repair, and that it's systems were too complex for simple maintenance all being intertwined rather than modular like older flanker models. India has a known habit of demanding too much and crying when the price goes up, they do it with all of their contracts, start with a fixed price, demand a bunch of addons then demand the price not go up. The su-57 is stealthy from only a frontal aspect, but you do need to realize india had no tech capable of designing their own fifth gen fighter, and russia did not have the decades it took for the f22 and f35 to build a system just for export since they do not believe in stealth anyways. Fyi the su-57 project is still going, but it looks like they want to take the progress of the su57 and adapt it to their cheaper su30mki jets.

India will fight for countries when it suits their regional security, they will not send their troops all over the world on another nations behalf but they would defend their neighbors even the ones they hate like china to ensure the evil they know does not get replaced by one they do not.

The f-16 does not even come close to even almost untouchable, it is inferior to the f-15 in every aspect except in turning, and much like the f-15 and the su-27 has never been used against any competent airforce and often times against enemies that could be taken out with p-51 mustangs, like against serbia with mig 29 jets so out of repair they had no functioning weapons, radars, iff identifiers, etc, they were flying them just to look tuff and in the state oif disrepair they were in it was a miracle they could even do that.

The sco is regional security and economic cooperation, not just counter terrorism, the entire sco premise started from an earlier treaty organization between former soviet states and china to prevent former soviet states from going to war with eachother over border disputes, and to put a collective defense and collective political pressure to keep former soviet states cooperating economically and diplomatically rather than fighting eachother.


Very neat thx much corporal.

I posted in scrolling who, what, where, when, why and how the Shanghai Cooperation Organization exists, is and does, which makes your final paragraph superfluous.

I quoted a USAF former F-16 pilot who clearly spoke for all F-16 pilots if not virtually for all of 'em: "The F-16 is the best place to be when you're being shot at."

It's also excellent to note you've stopped the absurdly OTT claim India will fight with China and Russia against the United States. So maybe now and going forward we get some relief from the equally absurd claim that it would put two-thirds of the world population against the USA in your wacky world war you see coming from over there. While it is a big loss to you of a major bogus talking point it does relieve us of the task of keeping you honest in this particular respect. I'm working now on the rest of 'em which are quite a few.
 
Very neat thx much corporal.

I posted in scrolling who, what, where, when, why and how the Shanghai Cooperation Organization exists, is and does, which makes your final paragraph superfluous.

I quoted a USAF former F-16 pilot who clearly spoke for all F-16 pilots if not virtually for all of 'em: "The F-16 is the best place to be when you're being shot at."

It's also excellent to note you've stopped the absurdly OTT claim India will fight with China and Russia against the United States. So maybe now and going forward we get some relief from the equally absurd claim that it would put two-thirds of the world population against the USA in your wacky world war you see coming from over there. While it is a big loss to you of a major bogus talking point it does relieve us of the task of keeping you honest in this particular respect. I'm working now on the rest of 'em which are quite a few.

No f-16 pilot speaks for all f-16 pilots, and the f-16 mis inferior to the f-15 in nearly every way, this is you again quoting someone you agree with and trying to post it as absolute fact like you do with general miley, all it does is make you look incompetent on the subject since you can only quote an opinion or statement and not debate any facts involving the aircraft, and given how you claim the f-16 is the safest place to be makes me believe you are completely ignorant on aircraft and air warfare as well.

The sco is very easily googleable, considering you claimed it was just anti terrorism, I severely doubt you even bothered to read any of it and simply made assumptions in your own head that suited what you thought it should mean.

India would fight with china and russia against the us in their territory, ie russia and china border india, and fights there immedietly affect india, my statement meant india will not send troops to aid russia in a nation like venezuala let's say, as it is not an attack on mainland russia or china nor a direct threat to any of the sco nations, if those threats moved to let's say moscow it becomes a direct threat tp india as well.

Maybe you should learn to read and research, if you were an officer as you claim I am sure they kept you as far away from command as possible seeing as you go out of your way to understand or comprehend situations and simply repeat claims from people who agree with you without substantiating evidence.
 
Maybe you should learn to read and research, if you were an officer as you claim I am sure they kept you as far away from command as possible seeing as you go out of your way to understand or comprehend situations and simply repeat claims from people who agree with you without substantiating evidence.

Oops, I missed another one.

The ad hominem. Trying to spread it around in your posts now I see.

It's getting to be like your own signature card, i.e., you don't leave home without it.
 
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You do know that today india china and russia just signed another agreement militarily right, literally on the fight against terrorism and extremism. To make the matter difficult india and pakistan have been at it since yesterday with two jets shot down, a pakistan j-17 shot down a mig 21 and an indian mig21 shot down an f-16, this puts the us in an awkward situation where it will have to pick and choose one or the other or stay out of conflict entirely.

Also the contracts with the biggest push being the f-16 likely will not win in india since one just lost in a dogfight to an antique mig 21, meaning if america wanted to sell they weapons they may need to reach for their f-15's and not try and sell the f-16's to them.

The F-16 was shot down by a R-73 shot (Russian version of the Sidewinder except has thrust vectoring) as the Pakistani pilot made a beeline back to the base. He didnt maneuver at all is my understanding. Which probabley means he didnt even know he was shot at. Antique planes can haul and shoot modern missiles just fine. Pilots of modern planes must have situational awareness or they will be shot down. First thing one does on a missile shot is go 90 degrees to beam and extend out and away then set up the chaff flares and jamming. Secondly start looking for terrain with which to block the target lock, so the missile goes "maddog" and switches to search mode in attempt to re-attain lock. The R-73 missile is no joke they are quite effective against maneuvering targets. The Indian fighter looked to be shot down by an ACM-120 as he turned to RTB, it looks as though he didnt even know it was headed his way.

F-16 is a good plane but to make use of it requires pilots that are very well trained and practiced. This is pretty much any modern fighter plane though.
 
The F-16 was shot down by a R-73 shot (Russian version of the Sidewinder except has thrust vectoring) as the Pakistani pilot made a beeline back to the base. He didnt maneuver at all is my understanding. Which probabley means he didnt even know he was shot at. Antique planes can haul and shoot modern missiles just fine. Pilots of modern planes must have situational awareness or they will be shot down. First thing one does on a missile shot is go 90 degrees to beam and extend out and away then set up the chaff flares and jamming. Secondly start looking for terrain with which to block the target lock, so the missile goes "maddog" and switches to search mode in attempt to re-attain lock. The R-73 missile is no joke they are quite effective against maneuvering targets. The Indian fighter looked to be shot down by an ACM-120 as he turned to RTB, it looks as though he didnt even know it was headed his way.

F-16 is a good plane but to make use of it requires pilots that are very well trained and practiced. This is pretty much any modern fighter plane though.

Yes the r-73 was used, a fairly modern missile from russia, and they are quite effective/ I will note russian a2a missiles are about as unreliable or more so than american a2a missiles, meaning any pilot with enough range can simply dodge them without even deploying flares.

I am also aware of pakistans air force, and to be truthful pakistans air force has never really made any meaningful combat kills against anyone except the soviet union, and the soviet pilots were ordered to not engage at all if they were outside afghan borders to prevent a cold war turning hot. India beat pakistan using the gnat, against the sabre, and truthfully if you handed the pakistan airforce a bunch of f-22's and india a single biplane with a 30 cal machine gun, india would probably still find a way to win because pakistans airforce is that bad.

On the f-16 they are good multirole fighters, in terms of air superiority they are aweful unless it comes down to a turning battle, they lack the range for interception, and lack the payload to carry a meaningful armament with them to the fight, the f-15 covers that role far better. The f-16 is to the russian mig 29 as the su27 is to the f-15, one group is high dollar air superiority fighters, the other cheap multi role fighters.
 
Oops, I missed another one.

The ad hominem. Trying to spread it around in your posts now I see.

It's getting to be like your own signature card, i.e., you don't leave home without it.

That post did not even make sense.
 
Harry S Truman to be retired 20 years early and take USN carrier count down from 11 to 10. No explanation.

I'm dubious about it myself but it's everyone's understanding it's to fund two new carriers in the next decade. Knock off $30 billion by not overhauling the Truman's nuclear plant and 20 more years of the Truman, in favor instead of two new carriers by 2040. Truman had been due for its nuclear plant midlife overhaul from 2024-2028. Upgrade its battle systems etc.

It's true Pentagon needs to put out new long range drone and other longer range aircraft that can launch off carriers that can stand off and out of the range of China's A2/AD defense systems that are designed to keep carriers too far out from China's mainland to launch its air wing within range.

News about mothballing the Truman was apparently leaked by high civilian officials at Pentagon who are opposed. Plus Acting SecDef Shanahan is for putting Truman down and is believed to be Trump's guy to nominate as SecDef without the Acting, subject to Senate confirmation. Shanahan is apparently good for Pentagon internal efficiencies but everyone knows he couldn't scare Justin Trudeau much less Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. WH chief of staff Mulvaney whose permanent position is budget director is apparently for putting down the Truman. All this is supposed to be in the new long range budget being developed for 2020-2024 but not yet completed.

Congress is already beating the war drums against retiring the Truman. House Seapower Subcommittee of Armed Services is going to haul Shanahan in to grill him. If Trump still goes ahead to nominate Shanahan then Shanahan will apparently have to suit up in battle gear for the Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on it. Budget people tried this with the CVN George Washington in 2014 but they got busted on it so the overhaul was done and retiring it was cancelled. So Trump is trying to do what Obama had tried to do but failed.
 
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