SpaceKadet

IMO the old saying that "War is good for business" should be amended with "but not for American business"...

Who is Sven? Don't know him...

Yeah, we beat Russians couple of times throughout the history. How many have you? Putin just have to say the N word and all Americans sh*t themselves and run to hide.

Hmmm, don't think you would be saying that when it's so easy to just bomb/drone/eradicate the extensive airport base facilities required by all the American fighter jets... and the hundreds of mechs and support personnel needed for the 2-3 hours of turn around. Please, stop talking about the things you're totally ignorant off. Go troll somewhere else.

Yes, it will with ease. Powerful computers and state of the art programming, linked to the state of the art comms facilities. Swedish war tech is light years ahead of you, caveman....

But will it operate in Arctic climate, and operate from normal roads, take off in only 500 meters, and have a round time of fully fueling and arming in 10 minutes by only 4 conscripts?

Spoken like a true World Dictator.... Yessa Massa, can I go sh** now?....

SU-37 is a formidable aircraft. JAS-39 was specifically designed to combat Russian MiGs and SU's. Let's not forget that JAS-39 predecessor, the J-37 Viggen is the only fighter jet that got a missile lock on an American SR-71. And even earlier the J-35 Draken made the first Cobra maneuver, long before Pugachev, and more for the sake of flight safety as the maneuver has rather limited use in actual combat. Swedish engineers are the best....

Yes, L+M specifically, but watch this space. Germany are already talking to get out of the deal. All Euro nations will be better off with JAS-39. The most advanced fighter jet currently available. <deleted> F-35, useless and expensive piece of <deleted>.

It's not about being behind or Portugal fighting battles. This is a real loss to the USA "Portugal aimed to invest €5.5 billion over the next 20 years to transition to this new generation of aircraft." https://mil.in.ua/en/news/unpredictability-of-usa-portugal-rules-out-f-35-fighter-purchase/

Right, and how many USD billions lost is for the USA?

I buy rotisserie chickens from Lotus's occasionally, but strip them of meat and but it in soups or sauces. There is the guy that makes honey rotisserie chickens chickens, but they are just too sweet and soggy skinned for my taste. We also have have a proper Thai Hat Yai fried chicken place, and they are really tasty but they cut them in such small pieces.

My brother just snapped that from Swedish TV.... Some snafu in the text overlay or reality? 5555

Per hour? Do not think so, this are per day wages they are talking about. Isn't current minimum wage 500 baht?

Are you talking to me?

Thanks for being neutral in your reply. I didn't really mean too be spiteful. It's just seems the current aura of the AN posts.... But IMO, they where both "heroes" and not. They did difficult mission without knowing what is was, and at the same time Enola Gay marks the start of the time in history when Homo Sapiens are able to to wipe themselves out, and "glass the planet" at the same time, to use the "Halo" wording. Whether the drop on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was needed, is debatable, but it did show what destruction mankind can inflict on itself. And those two are nothing compared to the Russian "Tsar Bomba", 100Mtons, dialed down to the 50Mtons for the test. 240PJ (peta jules) of energy, that was exploded over Kamchatka in 1961.

I know, I've seen, traveling to Romania (don't ask why!) with my father on a train through USSR in the mid 60's. Don't think much have changed. And I think that powers that be want to keep it this way.

Yes, I am a fan of David Bowie, but Scare Quotes is the official name of my usage of quotes. Get educated, it's in the IRONY section. Missed some primary school maybe?

From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation "...Scare quotes are a particular use of quotation marks. They are placed around a word or phrase to indicate that it is not used in the fashion that the writer would personally use it. In contrast to the nominal typographic purpose of quotation marks, the enclosed words are not necessarily quoted from another source..."

The "Atomic Heroes"

Damn that Paul Tibbets for naming his B29 bomber after his mother!

Good research. Thanks you for enlightening us all....

Glad to be of service! But then, by the same token, Polish, German, French, the Scandinavian and many other languages that use what we call Latin alphabet, have some of their own letters added, to express local diphthongs and specific pronunciations... but you wouldn't know anything about that now, would you? And, yes, I can read Cyrillic, but speak very basic Russian (mostly swear words). But listening to Ukrainian, I can hear that they share many of the same words.

To counteract the topic: Is United States of America a country? It did not exist 250 years ago, it has no world history, and it was just created (just like Kuwait and Israel) by colonial powers raping and stealing the native lands.

Apologies for misunderstanding.