Recent content by TorontoNoctis

Don't worry my vacation is nearly over and I planned to stop at 200 posts... well 201 now :china:. Basically storm your argument amounts to "enemy of my enemy is a friend" but you don't see the achilles heel of that argument, that America is not a true enemy of China. If it wasn't for Taiwan...

The US doesn't want to buy more F-22 because of its focus on nation building and antiterrorism. Now you may think the Russians have the same problem. But they don't. They don't care about civilian casualties or even mass slaughters. They are not nation building. No, they won't go lining up...

If you don't think Russia will buy 800 PAK FA for itself then I don't know what you're laughing at. 80-100 million is not out of buy range for one squadron for even the poorest of countries, and just ten years ago top fighters cost 20 million so the price for stealth will definitely go down...

Obviously you can't read. I said 200 each for Russia and India and 600 for export, not 800 for Russia. And this is not from some fanboy blog but the sourced wikipedia article to Sukhoi and Putin themselves reported by Reuters. The fanboys believe Russia will make 2000. You assume that fighter...

No, my notion of warfare is not outdated. It is forward thinking, for many reasons. Let's talk about the technological reasons. First, PAK FA. Russia will make 200 for itself and India, and 600 for export. You say that mass tank battles will not occur anymore due to air superiority. When...

The Russians are not dumb but neither are the Americans. Remember what context my reply was in: saying that the US was the greatest "threat" to China. So this is all a hypothetical game we are playing since war with Russia is unlikely but so is war with America. Airpower cannot hold ground...

Why do you think that? Because Russia is poor? If Putin sent 2000 tanks into any nearby country, the US will be unable to do anything without escalating the war with tac nukes. With the cold war over, the USA has no reason to sacrifice New York or Los Angeles for anyone, least of all China. All...

What about Russia? Sino-Soviet split was engineered by the West too, or do you think Russians are "Western dogs" too? :chilli: I was thinking of answering a lot of your "points" but smell troll, so going to wait and see :lol:.

Iranian definition of "cruise missile" is any rocket which can fly low to the ground and has a certain range. They have called many rockets cruise missiles in the past. So it would stand to reason if they invented a real cruise missile like what this looks like, they would not call it cruise...

I don't see what's so hard about making a stealth UCAV. The mathematics and physics have been known since the 60's1 and the only bottleneck was computers. Iran can easily find powerful enough off-the-shelf computers and CAD software powerful enough to design a stealth shape. Combine this with...

I do not remember dances and rejoicing in mass numbers immediately after 9/11. The worst I remember was from Israelis who said that "maybe now they will understand" attempting to score cheap political points. I do however remember candle light vigils by Iranians, arch enemies of the US, and...

Identification implies sympathy for a cause, which means they would have to support some sort of grassroots Lower Manhattan movement to remove Cordoba. This is just nationalism mixed in with religion and out-of-state politicians and influences trying to score cheap points. I'm reminded of...

Emotions are not based on facts but feelings. Gambit has made a good point about Americans being offended because it is a "conquest." If you ask Osama Bin Laden or any other jihadist, he will say that Cordoba House was a victory for their cause. This is offensive to some Americans. It does...

Since this is not the case in Iran now you can make the case that Iranian women are "victims" like you so arbitrarily declare North Koreans, and that the Islamic Republic never had the kind of support this article and you say it did from 50% of the population. You can claim the general...

A "typical American" thinks that the poor of the world need not swamp American borders or the first world to suck or leech benefits and welfare but instead should stay in their countries and fight the oppressors like an American Revolution. The "typical American" views refugees as bloodsuckers...