Recent content by Tang0

This statement is true only if the targeted fighter has any idea he is being targeted. If the target is unaware of it's situation in time for the missile to close most of that first 50% of range, kill probability runs up to 90%. Also, when was the last time a BVR missile was fired in Anger...

+1 for Sophistry. Classic post-operational talk from the S-2 shop. "We didn't say the ambush was here...We indicated that enemy personnel were likely in the area...." "They were 50 miles away!!" "...Perhaps we disagree about the definition of "Area"". :hitwall:

I am going to stop commenting on the matter now, as I am not going to change anyone's mind one way or the other. The simple fact from the perspective of the rest of the world though is that Israel is a state, a state which is prejudiced, but mostly open and democratic, especially by the...

Last time I checked, regardless of any intent of the Jews to create a Jewish state beforehand, Isreal was planned and voted into existence in 1947 by the UN, on a sliver of land where they enjoyed a small majority. Nope, plenty of people of various ethnicity in Palestine at the time of the...

And streets and institutions within Israel are named after the generals and politicians who's disproportionate responses to terrorism have killed thousands of innocent civilians, destroyed the infrastructure of multiple countries, and doomed hundreds of thousands to poverty without hope of an...

Also, the US did NOT support the partition plan. Despite voting for it with the rest of the UN, the US retracted it's support for the plan in early February of 1948 in response to rising violence and Arab migration.

I might argue that no-one was certain who would prevail in the conflict that followed the creation of Israel. Due to British restrictions in 1947 Israel had no aircraft or armor to speak of, limited anti-armor and anti-air capabilities, and was outnumbered at least 4 to 1 in overall military...

Not even close. The entirety of the America's were conquered by western nations and their original inhabitants genocidaly massacred. Mass migrations and genocide followed the creation of many states in Africa after the colonial powers left. The mass movements that followed the creation of India...

1. According to those statistics, the population growth was about 11 million people, not 896 thousand. Check your math. 2. You are right, it is a very bad way of saying X number of people starved to death, the actual decrease in the population of China by over 13 million though, that might be...

No, it means starved to non-existence. It did not mean that people died, it means that people had fewer kids and immigrated less. It also depends on your population model, look at the period between 1924 and 1929 it jumped by about 6 million as compared to a jump of 4 million between 1929 and...

Umm, the 1929 census shows that the population of the US was 122 million at the time, I fail to see how every US citizen starved to death 6 times over.. http://www.infoplease.com/year/1929.html By 1933 the population had increased to 126 million... http://www.infoplease.com/year/1933.html...

Actually, it is something out of 1950's Sci-Fi. Issac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Et. Al often featured companies called "General Atomics" and "General Robotics" in their books. It is a play off of "General Electric", which was the dominant technologically focused economic entity of the time...

Taliban TTP's vary greatly from region to region, and I can assure you, not all of them amount to "Blow up bomb, run away". Also, calling all Taliban "terrorists" is misleading, some elements run themselves like terrorist organizations, others more like the mafia, or even closer to conventional...

Personally, I never understood the whole "we feel betrayed" argument. The US looks out for its' interests, while Pakistan looks out for its' own. The US executive branch decided to ignore Pakistan's weapons program (Despite a congressional mandate not to) just long enough to achieve its short...

^^ At the time the Germans and the British were the only ones who had any clue how to design and develop Jet engines. This mostly had to do with the fact that almost all of the early pioneers in aerodynamics were German, British, and French, and less to do with metallurgy. It was the mechanics...