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To: LindyBill who wrote (31961)6/9/2002 10:35:55 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
No other country is going to build anything that will beat them at what they do. But, as we both know,

Ohh...???

Look at what the Russians have been selling to the Chinese:

dsis.org.tw

popularmechanics.com

And the Russians were designing aircraft that could perform maneuvers which US jets couldn't replicate until the F-22 and thrust vectoring (The Cobra Maneuver), which is used to force the guy behind to overshoot you and put them in your sights for a quick shot.

Check out these mini-movies:

aeroweb.lucia.it
aeroweb.lucia.it

It's the pilots, not the planes that have made the F-15 and F-16 so invincible. Our training exceeds theirs...

But when we go up against the Israelis in war games, we usually get our butts kicked.

Hawk