Vladimir79 wrote:How much influence can you buy with a handful of used F-16s? It isn't enough to buy one B-2 bomber.
Nobody makes money selling automobiles my friend. They make money selling PARTS.
Vladimir79 wrote:How much influence can you buy with a handful of used F-16s? It isn't enough to buy one B-2 bomber.
The 24 f16 are getting are from 1982-1984!!!I don't know what year f16s they are getting, but our oldest f16 (1988) breaks all the time.
Parts for our planes will be very expensive.Nobody makes money selling automobiles my friend. They make money selling PARTS.
Eastern Europe is a pool of qualified and unskilled workers and dumping market for western products.Western Europe has no gain if we get economical sustainable.To enter EU Roumania hat to sell most of its companies(some could have been profitable) to western companies for little money.Exactly... one or other side will win... High Euro vs low Euro. What the EU needs is two currencies, one that is high and one that is low and the countries can join one or the other depending on their economies.
Useful little aircraft relatively cheap to operate, but the fact that you get to open a support centre means you can probably get some real discounts on support costs.
The irony is that if you had a clear use for the US then you wouldn't need to suck up to them... they would be sucking up to you.
We have 5 c-130 Hercules (2 functional) by the end of the year will have 7 c-27j Spartan (we have 3 at the moment) an 4 AN-26.That is why I am suggesting specialisation. The poorer countries don't need to waste money on hundreds of fighters... NATO forces already have plenty of those. Buy tanker aircraft. Transport aircraft. Jammer aircraft. Find a gap in European forces and fill it.
Serbia and Belarus don't produce supersonic multi-roll fighters.Our relationship with Russia have never been god ,most of the time bad just like now.Your president should mention closer fraternal ties to Serbia and Belarus and watch the price of those F-16s go down, or some other much better offer...
We have a plain build in our country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAR-99.Of course considering your location and the threats around you, you could probably just buy some L39s or L59s or perhaps Yak-130s or Mig ATs.
Vladimir79 wrote:The F-16s they are getting are just as obsolete as Soviet MiG-29s.
Hannibal Barca wrote:
This is only gonna get (much) worse. People like this ...Gypsonian delegate help by exposing this facts.
nemrod wrote:
The corrupted Titus Corlatean romania's foreign affairs press Naton to redeploy in eastern countries.
If Russia intervenes and saved threatens peoples in Ukraine from Nazis corrupted bunch of rogues in Kiev, it is sure that we will see a dominos effect. Many of these corrupted governements that occured since 1991 in Central Europa, all are going to collapse.
Intrigado wrote:
Well, "corrupted man" means nowadays in Romania whoever did something to displease either EU or US or both. It's actually beginning to have a positive connotation as we got baffled to see Yanukovich blamed for doing exactly what the American-appointed puppet does in Romania and gets praises from EU and US. Wonders of "democracy".
Also, dynamics in Eastern Europe are quite confusing. Suffices to say that it's highly unlikely to find two countries with the same agenda in this region. Each one carries the past on its shoulders like sold rock.
Hannibal Barca wrote:I have my interpretation but I am very much interested to hear from as many Romanians as possible before saying mine.
Intrigado wrote:Hannibal Barca wrote:I have my interpretation but I am very much interested to hear from as many Romanians as possible before saying mine.
Well, I was hoping to be spared the humiliation but..... Our hare-brained and spineless politicians are so pathetically grateful for America's decision to place this part of the ABM shield in Romania that this business is entirely an American one; if they decide to bring here missiles with nuclear capacity or whatever else would suit their needs, those idiots wouldn't do anything else but nod and smile. Now, of course, people endowed with a bit of sense aren't happy with this development and ask why would we need such defense system as we don't have anything to do with either Iran or North Korea, the rogue states against which it was said that is necessary to build this kind of shield. But these people are quickly silenced with a "Would you want to happen again as it did in 1940?". We have a kind of "besieged fortress" mentality and, whatever this shield means to the US, from our point of view, it means that the Americans have reasons to defend a land we cannot defend by ourselves, just as, if you allow me to say this, just as Hitler was interested to defend us because he was really defending his main source of oil. As, due to three centuries of long and ugly common history, Russia is pinpointed as the main source of danger to Romania, considering the story with the Republic of Moldova as well, many of my co-nationals and, of course, the government think that in case of something, the US would want to defend their precious shield, just as Nazi Germany guarded its precious petroleum with the utmost care. That's all. Only that, as I heard, the systems seem to be designed to be mobile; if things run amok, the US soldiers can simply load them in trucks or whatever and hit the road, leaving us mired in whatever sticky situation they brought upon our heads. But that's not official, you can imagine.
As for the Joe Biden thing....people here were commenting that he must have come to find his other son a well-paid job, as the caring father he is. Officially, he was asked to pass on the request for a permanent American base in the port of Constanta and probably assured that the deals with Chevron keep running smoothly. Instead, he wiped the floor with us for being corrupted oligarchs, praised some judicial institutions that are keeping alive the holy NKVD tradition and assured us the US are going to comply with the provisions of Article 5 of the NATO Treaty. I never felt so ashamed in my life.
Romania wants more NATO troops locally, even permanent base: “Russian threat is a reality, and we need support”