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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (397255)7/9/2008 12:17:26 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (3) of 1577592
 
Heck, they probably got some of those $2000 F14s...

Damn! Corruption has become endemic to this country.......at least on the level of the federal gov't. Its unconscionable to me that they would be selling $30+ million planes for $2k and I don't care how much work they need.

Which brings up an issue.

Why do they still have F-14s flying? The last ones we officially sold them was under Carter more than 30 years ago. F-14s of that vintage has a mean time before failure of less than 30 flight hours. And they have to be flown, or at least started up. Otherwise the bearings in the engines will flat spot. Or, so I have been told.

Well, the Iranians think nothing of putting old and poorly maintained airliners into the air with a full load of passengers. Can't imagine they are much different with their military planes.

And it was our policy in those years that we didn't sell parts or training to maintain top of the line military equipment like the F-14 except to Israel. So we could control how those weapons were used. We didn't like what was going on, no maintenance and they eventually stopped working.

Apparently, American policy has some loopholes to it.

Now, we do know that Reagan sold the Iranians weapons and parts. What we don't really know is how much. If they still have working F-14s, the answer has to be "a lot". Or the sales have been going on until today.

I wouldn't be surprised if it were both.

Either way, there is a story here.
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