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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (72356)	1/16/2000 1:44:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 108807

Actually, the engineering of Russian fighters is outstanding. Second to none on the planet. They were designed to fly and keep flying under Soviet conditions - both field and procurement. An F-15 would last a week and only if it had pristine runways.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (72356)	1/17/2000 1:50:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Now, Sidney calm down. This is a subject that I know a lot about. I was Nixon's adviser on the economic impact of arms control and disarmament, and provided research on the US impact of START. As to the impact on our economy of buying arms abroad, please remember that we are said (by Greenspan) to be teetering on the brink of inflation and overemployment. We need to shut down uneconomical military activities and release those engineers and technicians to work in the technological areas in which we are really good. We make cheap chips and expensive fighters. If the Russian fighters are junk (which I doubt), then our present planes are good enough to put them down. If the Russian planes are superior to ours (which in some ways I believe they are), we should buy the ones that work from them on the cheap (they are desperate for foreign exchange). [Of course, we can have the on-off switch relabled in English.] Either way, we don't need new US planes (like the F22) which are incredibly expensive and are not known to work. Usually, when one buys planes one buys a bunch of spare parts. We could make them promise not to attack us until we had paid our bills (like never!). You don't understand how these big deals work. Another advantage of not building advanced weapons is that the Russians and Chinese wouldn't be able to steal the secrets from us. Then what could they do? I never said that it would be popular. You could hardly expect Lockheed-Martin to be thrilled, but firk 'em. I am only interested in rational solutions to major problem. This is an obvious win-win situation. The Russians would never attack their best customer, now would the Americans attack their main supplier. Instead of IMF aid to Russia we buy weapons from them. If we have the weapons they cannot attack us or the Chechens.