Future of the EU

[Thermodyne]

El_Phil said:
A. Joke. I'll repeat that. Joke
B. Any comparison of US vs Soviet aircraft is silly as the pilot quality of the soviet drivers has been poor at best.
C. Not serious. Just in case A. was missed.
D. Well actually Rolls Royces sets the standard of gas turbines, it's just national bias stops the US buying them as often as they should. Take a look at the littoral combat ship engine progamme.
E. Cat engines are awful, only buying Perkins and stealing a great deal of their technology gave them a hope.
F. Lets be honest France sitting it out would have depended on the Soviets agreeing. They might of done or might not have.
G. If you are interested may I point in you in the direction of http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/npapers/np4/np4.pdf where the US tried to work out how the cold war might have panned out if it went hot. Fascinating read


To drag this back on topic, you do have to wonder why other countries are going on with referendums for the EU constitution. If the Dutch and French have said no and all countries have to ratify it does that imply that they will keep on asking Holland and France until they produce the right answer?

I was going to let this pass, but what the heck. I don’t think pilots are the problem with the performance of soviet aircraft. Now that we jointly train with them, they are seen as being of high quality. The problem is with their command and control structure and the lack of flexibility in their actions