So Hugo Chavez is buying Chinese combat planes. How is that like the opposite of threatening? I’m sure the Chinese combat planes are very reasonably prices, but we’re all quite familiar with Chinese workmanship these days. I’m guessing if you’re evil and can’t afford old Russian surplus, China is the way to go.
Still, what if Chavez attacks the U.S. with his planes and they crash all over America? If they stay up long enough for us to shoot them down, do we have to worry about the lead in them getting airborne? Some things to worry about.
Hey, if he attacks us, it’ll give us an excuse to go kill him.
I suppose we could embarrass them by dropping pieces of gum on their runways and watching them get stuck on take-off roll.
Remember how we kept hearing that China was going to start exporting cars to the US and undercut the whole industry worldwide? Then remember how they ran a Taurus-sized car through a crash test and showed the video on the news of this thing collapsing like a beer can (it would have been funny if it weren’t so horrifying). Suddenly we heard zilch about Chinese cars coming to the US. I found an old Popular Mechanics podcast on iTunes where someone said that the show cars China put out were so poor in fit that had a car been wrecked and come back from the body shop in that condition, it would be rejected (remember, these were SHOW cars).
A friend flew a China in-country flight some years ago and asked the flight attendant why she didn’t go over crash procedures. “CRASH PROCEDURES! HA! We crash you die!”, she bellowed somewhat smugly.
Yeah, no doubt.
In the mean time, China purchases Boeing’s and Airbus’s for daily flight needs.
If they are painted with leaded paint then it would be illegal for them to attack us here. We’ll sic the EPA on them.
Choey,
I think you just described the entire Democratic defense policy.
I would rather Chavez spend all of his country’s money on sub-standard planes, subs, tanks, etc. than on supporting terrorist organizations. I mean really, what is the worst that could happen? Our boys could really use more target practice. Seriously, we could tell Chavez that we are sending one squadron of F-22’s and even spot him the time of day and they would still destroy every one of his MIG’s.
HA! Check the Wiki page on this turd! Top speed 497 – just a little faster than the piston-engined fighters we were making, oh, like 60 years ago! I know, it’s an attack bird, not a true fighter, but check the pics and specs. I still wouldn’t be afraid of Hugo even if he had 5000 of these.
So is this some kind of manned aerial target drone? We should respond by selling Columbia some refurbished F-16s.
I think China is still using Fishbed-Ds as part of its frontline forces. Anybody have any info on that?
Am I the only person to whom it’s occurred that the reason he’s buying them is because he wants to crash them into things in the USA? (Ooh, extra points for me, I said “whom”!)
Here’s the latest threat from China:
http://www.forbes.com/reuters/feeds/reuters/2008/09/14/2008-09-14T040052Z_01_HKG273917_RTRIDST_0_CHINA-WINE-ANALYSIS-PIX.html
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I think they just wanted to make the news.
Hey, the Chinese are good at building knockoffs of Korean War era Soviet designs.
Those Confederate Air Force guys with the antique US military aircraft better be ready for callup.