A MUST READ An eye opener about what it takes to be a suicide bomber. Nasra Hassan works in Vienna. She has compiled a database of more than 200 profiles of Muslim suicide bombers and has just completed a book on the subject. It's here and you'll learn the mind set of the young men who do these deeds. I think I got this link from The Corner.
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Howie, the Africans aren't gonna get any fighter planes, with the possible future exception of Eygpt. Eygpt, in turn, is more likely to get F-16's than F-35's.
Ain't nobody getting the top of the line F-22, with the possible exceptions of Israel and Japan.
As to the F-35:
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PARIS 2005 • June 13, 14, 15
AINonline | Paris Air Show
JSF partners craft technology MOU
by Chris Pocock
A new set of technology-sharing memoranda of understanding are to be negotiated between the U.S. government and the eight partner nations in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, Aviation International News has learned. They are intended to allay concerns–particularly expressed by the UK–that the U.S. will not release the sensitive stealth and avionics technology necessary for other countries to sustain and modify the F-35 in service.
Tom Burbage, Lockheed Martin executive vice president and general manager for the F-35A program, said that a production sustainment and follow-on development (PSFD) MOU should be negotiated by December 2006, with annexes specific to each country. Signing of this PSFD document would not itself commit the partner nations to the production phase of the JSF program, Burbage explained.
To date, only the UK has expressed a firm requirement for the fifth-generation combat aircraft. But the National Armament Directors from Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Canada, Australia, Denmark and Norway will today join their UK and U.S. counterparts here, to demonstrate their status as industrial partners in the F-35 program. Another two countries (Israel and Singapore) are security co-operative participants, meaning that they pay to receive detailed information, and can also request trade studies. ..."
Israle may or may not be cut out of F-35 because of concerns that Our Trusty Ally In the Middle East may transfer F-35 technology to China.
Dassault, the nominal maker of France's Rafale, is in trouble. Singapore may buy some of the french jets, other Rafale faces slim non-French sales prospects. I think France is pitching the aircraft to Saudi A.
Oh yeah, the Frogs were hoping to sell Rafales to Saddam's regime. That's another reason why they're pissed re Iraq.
-- david.davenport.1@netzero.com
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