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While I do think that, I wouldn't rely on it.

They were the official govt of Afghanistan before the attack... And the US sent about 2/3 of the troops there, the rest were from other countries.

I thought that the PAK FA's RCS was 0.1 m^2, not 0.01 m^2. PAK FA stealth features patent published - IHS Jane's 360 IIRC the F-35 has an RCS of 0.01 m^2 and the F-22 has an RCS of 0.001 m^2. Ofc they are all different in other aspects so the PAK FA is superior in other measurements. For...

FFS Israel... :tdown:

I doubt that, lol. When NATO's article 5 was invoked on 9/11, everyone helped the US fight the Taliban in Afghanistan. Russia attacking would be way more serious and I'm sure that everyone would respond at a call for help as well.

EU leadership gave Putin a week to withdraw from Ukraine or they will enact further sanctions.

That's interesting because a missile as fast as BrahMos might just be too fast to be engaged by some SAMs.

Well it still is half a squadron of MiG-29s. Upgrading them can only make their air force better than before. They have the Yak-130? O.o I mean sure, they aren't anything special compared to actual fighters and attack jets but they are really good as trainers. We are stuck with the T-2 here...

Yes. :laugh: Which ones are you considering? Chinese ones? That's nice. I think that includes a larger payload, going from 4k kg to 4.5k. Also a MiG-29S has the N019M radar. It has a range of 80km and allows two targets to be engaged by active radar homing missiles simultaneously. The...

Don't they have some MiG-29s? I hear that they will upgrade them soon as well.

Yea it's true that no SAM can hit a target 100% of the time. Especially with TVC, ECM and such. But you are bringing no source. xP And anyway, let's assume that the range really is 20km, how will that help in the lack of long-range SAMs? Missiles usually have an even lower chance of being hit...

Defense Updates: FM-90 / HQ-7B SAM Air Defense System Maximum Radar Range: 25000 m Maximum Range: 15000 m Its radar can detect an aircraft from 25km away but the missile can't actually reach the enemy from that far away. I don't know where you get your info about its altitude range being 10km.

The HQ-7A (or else FM-90) is a good SAM that was produced in 1998 but it's not exactly great. It has a maximum operating altitude of 6km. A Su-30MKI can easily fly above that. If it doesn't want to fly above it it can easily launch an Kh-31 anti-radar missile from far away, since the FM-90 only...

They have US-made weapons that they've stolen from the Iraqi army anyway. And are these weapons here supposed to be weapons that Obama gave to the rebels to fight against Assad?

Reserve Bank of India Gov. Rajan: Inflation on Target - WSJ Why do they even call him hawkish? He just wants to bring inflation down from 8% to 6% in two years. The Russians have a similar inflation rate and they are trying to bring it down at any cost. This Rajan guy seems pretty cool if you...

Yea, NATO sure acts as a deterrent. And I just meant that the PKK is the one making the claim. Turkey did seem pretty positive in a possible creation of a Kurdish state in northern Iraq recently.

Well they took control of the border crossing together with moderate rebels since it was previously held by Assad's forces. There is however evidence that the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda, al-Nusra Front is the one responsible for capturing of the UN soldiers, after all another group that was more...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/30/world/middleeast/un-peacekeepers-locked-in-standoff-with-syrian-rebels.html or Syrian rebels surround Filipino UN peacekeepers in Golan Heights | World news | theguardian.com

I'm assuming that you are talking about the blue berets from the Fiji islands and the Philippines on the border with Israel in south-west Syria. Then yea, there are no IS fighters in a radius of hundreds of km from the point that this happened.

That's not true. It was Al Qaida forces that did that. Not IS.