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StevenDC wrote:

patagoniax wrote: Since he is also a tour guide and has to meet with other clients, we mind find that image hard to reconcile.

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We would be thrilled to take a tour of the country with you, I'll wear my "The more I get to know people, the more I love my dog" shirt and we can discuss the lackings of the world.

We can invite Penquista and that will fulfill the Canuck requirement, besides, we will need bait?

I could think of no more knowledgeable ambassador to Patagonia than Px. He would fill you in on all the little details that no guidebook could ever know.

JHyre wrote:... how US Military is going to get its ass kicked for x reason almightly Iraqis, with the 4th largest, most battle-hardened military in the world, Gerald Bull superguns, T-72's, awesome SAM system, ...

Got to see this one up close and personal in March 1991... I took this foto where I was working at Al Jubayl for a few months that year. (View inside turret: can you say "spalling"? ) Also talked to the US and UK shooters (before I became known on allchile for being so very very antisocial). The story was this: Good Guys would make contact with Bad Guys and then maneuver to points out of range of fire-control for Bad Guys, then take them down. So easy even the Marines could do it. Note to the easily offended: That is supposed to be a joke. Another note to the still offended: The Marines' mess was better than the Army's.



Teacher I know says that in the 1980s he taught classified courses in countermeasures against fast-moving ARMs/HARMs. Said they usually had countermeasures in mind for at least three generations of Great Technology Leaps Forward, and systems in place for two of those. By 2004 there were supposed to be surveillance systems that could tell what armament was on external hard-points before a fast-mover got off the tarmac, which means that the fleet probably has decent reaction time for that posited threat. And even the looniest Iranian airplane driver has a good idea how the fleet would respond to even an attempt to use an antiship weapon. As they used to say, the first guy who lights up gets smoked.