| From: | War News Updates Editor |
|---|
Don't Buy Your Aircraft Carrier From Russia -- Kyle Mizokami, Real Clear Defense/War Is Boring
India learned the hard way with INS Vikramaditya
Like a lot of countries, India wants the best weapons it can afford. But ideological and financial concerns mean there are a lot of things it won't buy from the United States or Europe. That pretty much leaves, well, Russia.
India has been a big buyer of Russian weapons for 50 years. Those haven't been easy years for New Delhi. India's defense contracts with Russia have consistently suffered delays and cost overruns. And the resulting hardware doesn't always work.
Of all India's Russian procurement woes, none speak more to the dysfunctional relationship between the two countries than the saga of INS Vikramaditya. In the early 2000s, India went shopping for a new aircraft carrier. What followed was a military-industrial nightmare.
What you pay is what you get .... and if you pay cheap expect something cheap in return. An aircraft carrier for under $1 billion .... who were they kidding. On a side note .... it is good to know that when it comes to military procurement .... the U.S. is not the only country that sometimes has problems.
TITLE>>>>>>FORBIDDEN
CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY
.... Chapter Seven
Mr. Jacobs was sitting in the dark inside the cathedral when he saw the three figures. They were carrying a small sack. He wondered who the boys were; so, these were the thieves that did not believe his story that it was the forbidden fruit and had been stealing from it. He picked up his cane and went out through the side door as noiselessly as possible. He began to tiptoe towards the boys who were busy picking the oranges and plucking the ones their hands could reach. "Now, all of you come over here to me," Mr. Jacob said. The boys froze and looked around but they could not see him in the darkness. They were nonetheless frightened. "You all go on your knees," Mr hicobs voice came again, then his figure came as he left the shadow of the cathedral. Afraid, the boys fell on their knees. They were too young to know that he had not seen their faces in the darkness and would not recognize them if they ran off "Do you know you have sinned? That you disobeyed me by going to the orange tree? I told you the fruits were the forbidden fruits yet you went there. And since it did not belong to you, you stole from it," Mr. Jacobs said. .... TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW...JOIN US TOMORROW FOR MORE ON THIS FUNNY AND EXCITING STORY }}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
No comments:
Post a Comment