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Botany

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28. I have read that the F-16's avionics was upgraded and that in air to air combat their missiles ...
Sun Mar 24, 2024, 09:48 AM
Mar 2024

… are now good from almost 50 miles out. Hopefully America’s remote sensing* (satellites …
which Trump stole the information about) are looking @ Russian plane, missile, drone, and
artillery launches both in Russia and Ukraine and the Ukrainian response is massive to those
spots.

I wish those Swedish attack jets would get into the action too. The way to stop the war is
to kill Russians by the truck load to the point that both the citizens and the Russian Military
take Putin out. Over 30 % of the Russian people don’t have decent indoor plumbing i.e. flush
toilets and hot water as Putin has 5 or so million dollar homes. Btw all of our are pro Putin
GOP stooges make me sick.

I would not want to be a worker in the Iranian drone factory that is building them for Russia.

* I have a family member who worked with that stuff and to this day he/she would be arrested
if they talked about it. Why Trump is walking free is a disgrace.

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It fills my heart with joy to see so many countries lining up to help the brave people of Ukraine. Aristus Mar 2024 #1
K & R............................... Lovie777 Mar 2024 #2
This is good news. sheshe2 Mar 2024 #3
Russia is raining ballistic missiles on Ukrainian cities FredGarvin Mar 2024 #4
Complain to House republicans. SergeStorms Mar 2024 #5
Bit of a strange take on things..... Red Mountain Mar 2024 #6
You do realize the Russians really don't have a Black Sea fleet anymore. paleotn Mar 2024 #8
It's not as bad as you're saying. Elessar Zappa Mar 2024 #10
The West is humiliated? How so? Ukraine, a fairly small country compared to Russia XorXor Mar 2024 #26
If not a win, how would you then define it as an absolute loss? n Torchlight Mar 2024 #30
Sure, a step closer, but probably another year to go. Ilsa Mar 2024 #7
To be proficient, certainly. paleotn Mar 2024 #9
Remember the planes cockpits and controls BumRushDaShow Mar 2024 #11
You're right. I had forgotten about their prior experience. nt Ilsa Mar 2024 #15
English is the standard communication language for civilian pilots world wide Cheezoholic Mar 2024 #18
They were trained on and flew Soviet/Russian MiGs (and other craft) BumRushDaShow Mar 2024 #20
"The 10 pilots received basic flying, ground school and..." EX500rider Mar 2024 #12
I have posted a couple of videos in OPs throughout the past year BumRushDaShow Mar 2024 #13
The ground crew and maintenance infrastructure is probably the biggest issue Cheezoholic Mar 2024 #19
My guess is that the software is not so easily adapted. Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2024 #14
I wish they were ready to go blue-wave Mar 2024 #16
Hey Ivan the F 16 can go from a dead stop on the ground and be @ 15,000 feet in seconds, it's missiles Botany Mar 2024 #17
Sadly, these aren't the latest and greatest. sir pball Mar 2024 #21
I have read that the F-16's avionics was upgraded and that in air to air combat their missiles ... Botany Mar 2024 #28
Yes, they've been upgraded to 1990s standards...which is fine for today. sir pball Mar 2024 #29
This is great and all, but somebody has to have some old F-15s to donate. sir pball Mar 2024 #22
I don't remember where I read it BumRushDaShow Mar 2024 #23
That would make sense sir pball Mar 2024 #24
Yup BumRushDaShow Mar 2024 #25
I get the impression that people have a distorted view on how much value these will have XorXor Mar 2024 #27
Will these finally cause the Russian forces to RubyRose Mar 2024 #31
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