off topic: Soviet "Quality"? RE: The PC's Soviet?

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bbtel.com>
Date: Wed Apr 15 23:22:30 1998

Joe wrote:

> Whoa!!! Where have you been for the last 15 years? I worked as a RADAR
> tech in the USAF as well as working on various guidance systems for a
> *MAJOR* US defense contractor and the US DOES HAVE linking RADAR systems
> and has had for a looonnnggg time. We have in in ALL aircraft, also in
> tanks and other armored vehicles and even in some man portable units.
> Frankly, we could have had RADAR linking much sooner but we didn't need it
> since we had AWACS and it's predessor the EC-121.

Yup.m I thought that maybe I was the only one here that saw it that way.

> Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! When was the last
> time you looked at a piece of Russian military hardware????????? It's very
> crude!!! Try interchanging a few parts in ANY of the AK-47s. Nothing is
> standard, it was all hand fitted to get it to even work! Even their best
> produced guns have rough machining marks and flashing all over them.
> Their best military equipment is poor even when compared to our so called
> "Saturday Night Specials". Stalin used to say that "Quantity had it's own
> Quality". He was specificly referring to their poorly built weapons.

I second the
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