Yes, that's right, it's Valentine's Day on DID. Lots of fun pictures and informative links, as usual. After all, where else on the web or off can you find material like:
- India's $500M Smerch-M Order: From Russia, With Love. Getting your share of Smerches from Mother Russia can be fun. Maybe not so fun for your enemies.
- Love on the Rocks: CASA's $600M Venezuelan Plane Sale In Heavy Turbulence. Uncle Sam didn't like the new beau. Showed the shotgun. Then things got really interesting, and the soap opera began.
- To Belarus, With Love: India to Sell 18 Used SU-30Ks for $300M. India selling off the star of fighter plane exercises like COPE India? You betcha.
- Breakup, Interrupted: JASSM Missile Back on Track. It's a cheap, stealthy cruise missile. China can't be happy, but Lockheed might be.
- Multi-National F-16 Fleets Increase Staying Power With Enhancements. They aren't as young as they used to be - and the article's hyperlink contains a surprise treat for military buffs.
- Mile High Club: $178.2M to Set Up New USAF Flight School. It deserves the appelation.
- Why Don't We Do It In the Road: The RAF's New Truck. Honkin' big British armoured fuel trucks are headed to Afghanistan - driven by the Royal Air Force. Why?
- Showing the Love: ACUPAT Image Link Fixed. See the improvements in the US Army's new combat uniforms.
In keeping with the theme:
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/13862793.htm
Yep, and not just the USA. There's a joint Euro project called the nEUROn we'll be covering tomorrow, and Britain has CORAX, and ground robots are becoming more rpevalent.
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Very complete article about the sale of military airplanes to Venezuela. It is rare that internal Spanish politics are so well reflected in foreign media.
This Socialists cannot really understand how free-market operates and that it cannot be easily manipulated when so many big players are involved. They think we are still living in the 1980's. Today Spanish corporations are far more integrated in international groups, so unwilling to bother the rulers and consumers of the most important market.
Maybe, for this time, Utopia has crashed into reality.
Thanks, JA. That one took a lot of work. Glad to hear it ring true on the other side of the pond.