Chavez Says He May Send US-Made Fighter Jets to Cuba, China

Musharaf has announced the F-16 deal will be put on hold since quake victims have priorty:

MIGleader said:

guys, i see the word "give" in their. that means chavez may send the planes to china...FOR FREE!!! in exchange for some kind of partnership or future military deals. why turn down 20 FREE f-16s? china will be able to make some spares, like iran, and keep the f-16s running, maybe improve them. then it should intimidate taiwan by holding excercises with the su-27 and f-16s, and have the su-27s win. taiwan will be scared to death

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lol that was funny!!!


maybe China can scrape off the radar absorbing paint and put it on the su-30... lol kidding...

No offense guys but the primative block that the troublemaker chavez has is is junk in US air force standards. F-16 is being phased out here for the JSF anyhow.

EternalVigil said:

No offense guys but the primative block that the troublemaker chavez has is is junk in US air force standards. F-16 is being phased out here for the JSF anyhow.

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that doesnt mean china cant put the planes to good use. china can always put them to good use. china could make a huge program and revers engineer the planes. then you would end up with the "chengdu f-16", fitted with some chinese radars,weapons and avionics. such an airccraft would be an immediate sucess on the international markt. being a highly proven u.s aircraft now offered for a fraction of the price.

EternalVigil said:

Well I guess we can always send cruise missles to Chavez town to destroy them before they are shipped off. :nono:

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and when they miss, chavez starts creating a huge fuss. and america doesnt want chavez pissed, not unless they want oil to be $200 a gallon

We buy most of our oil from Canada,and the Saudis. We can always buy more from Canada thus improving the over all economy of North America or buy more from mexico.Also, the Euro market is already saturated with F-16 and F-18 so only third world dictatorships would probably want the cheap rip off version.

EternalVigil said:

We buy most of our oil from Canada,and the Saudis. We can always buy more from Canada thus improving the over all economy of North America or buy more from mexico.Also, the Euro market is already saturated with F-16 and F-18 so only third world dictatorships would probably want the cheap rip off version.

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when katrina hit, gas rose to 6$ in some places. and the guld coast is a relativly minor source of oil compared to venezuela.

who wants to buy an f-16 for only 15 mil? everone!!!!
africa
southeast asia
south america

They are useless without our tech like a turkey shoot to US and EU fighters. Oh well I guess one can dream eh?

well , i am frm China , i read the news in the newspaper yesterday , so i can tell u guys something in a chinese eyes .

the usage of F-16 for china are (1) it is helpful for china to study the manufacturing technology of usa combat fighters (2) we can take F-16 as the assuming rival , so as to find ways to defeat F-16 of Taiwan (3) the engines of F-16 is the most useful for china , since our engine-manufacturing is far behind western technology

try to understand my words , guys .:china:

Actually the J-10 is at parity or better than the F-16. The 16 is just a widly used fighter and people still think its good because of that. It is a good mud mover for ground attack missions for being single engine but it dies everytime to F-15's and has zero chance vs an F22 or eurofighter.

MIGleader said:

when katrina hit, gas rose to 6$ in some places. and the guld coast is a relativly minor source of oil compared to venezuela.

who wants to buy an f-16 for only 15 mil? everone!!!!
africa
southeast asia
south america

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Thats because refining capacity was hurt by them we had plenty of crude but could'nt refine it fast enough. :/ We need more refining capacity here and worldwide.