Do you see russian radar guided AA-7 Apex carried by mig23 air to air missiles work against US f15 during the war in 70's after vietnam? They don't seems to work yet mig23s gotten into dogfight having to acquire lock from the rear using IR guided missiles. Your F15a would begin launching AIM-7 and with some success splashing migs from 20 miles away. Soviet weapons would rely on quantity, slipping to your rear or lure your fighters into SAMs and AAAs to fight.
Russian avionics only get on par with Americans in the 90's enough to challenge your fighters and choppers but not the mbts.
Say if Russia ignored your warning and sent their fleet to escort precious fresh weapons and supplies cargo to Iraq in late 90's selling them the su27sm, mig33, su30mk with full armaments packages, a50 awacs, 2s6, sa17, s300, sa15 , mi28 havoc with armaments package and complete ground forces t90, bmp3, btr90, 2s19, bm30, etc. You think America would dare to fight?
That is why you are a civvies and we are/were military personnel.
What do you mean "Dare to fight?" Afghan Taliban were years behind US tech and there are no chance virtually for them to win an open conflict, did it mean they should pack up and roll over?
There are no "Dare to fight" in military, you join the course, then you will have to fight, even if you are on the underhand. If you have to fight, you will have to fight, this is not a bar room bawl where you can "Buff" your way out, if life and national security is at stake, you
WILL fight with your hand if you have to.
People like you rooting for science and technology, know the absolutely square root of jack shit of people in war. People like us, I have tasted dirt in Iraq, I had try to dig with my hand and teeth to get me deeper into the sand, I have been bombed at by our own Air Force, I have been on the receiving end of Taliban and Iraqi Insurgent Mortar and Rocket Artillery, I had been on the receiving end of our own mortar and artillery, I had been on the receiving end of small fire from
JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY.
For us, fighting in a war is about survival, for you, it's a dick measurement, I got bigger gun than you, I got better tank than you. Do you know what it's like to have a 500 pounder explode 600 meters away from you? Come back and talk to me about "Dare to Fight" when you had one.
It's just matter of time. If china wanted to overtake America as world power, China would have to share with Russia. Only then they could become strong where 1 has tech while 1 has wealth.
LOL, ARE YOU REALLY THAT DUMB? I am starting to think you are just playing dumb because even the PDF brigade here won't say something along the line "Share with Russia"
Yeah, you can share with Russia, how about that? Maybe you will cede some of the territories to them, or they will cede some of their territories to you? While you are at it, why not "Share with India" or "Share with Japan" too?
Dude, you do know forming an alliance is not just "Insert Random Country here" right?
I laugh so hard when I read this
Fyi, i didn't really bother to memorize the names in black hawk down. Only to check the accuracy of the movie and special effects.
You do know the only thing about right and realistic about Black Hawk Down is the character name, right? So if you don't bother to remember the character name, why watch the movie in the first place?
Why would PLAN go to America? The customers are on the west side, not east. For Iran, Iraq, Syria, etc the route is through Azerbaijan passing through land. That was also the route used by Iran to ship the captured abrams, mraps, etc to china and Russia. Later on captured f16 would be shipped to china too. Please get your Pentagon to sell more advanced weapons to Iraq, they'll be great contribution to China and Russia.
lol, again, exactly how dumb are you?
What that have to do with Abrams and F-16? Do you even remember the closest allies of China already operate the latest version of F-16? Why would you want to capture one in Iraq and transport them thru Iran and Azerbaijan, but not simply transfer them from Pakistan to China? I mean, Pakistan is your all weather friend, right?
Also, Iran had F-14 for a really long time, does that make any different to China?
You have to be stupid to think country we sold weapon to would simply hand over them, maybe you should try and capture an Abrams, F-16 and MRAP yourselves, and see how easy you can do it.
And did you forget about the Chinese
so called friend in South America? Or you suggest the Chinese route all the way around the globe to visit place like Bolivia and Venezuela. Are there land route you can go from China to Venezuela without going across the pacific?