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2010-05-14 Europe

Greece being forced to buy French and German weapons while bankrupt?

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Posted by 3dc 2010-05-14 09:49|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 NO ~~blood~~ Euros for ~~oil~~ weapons! Think they'll march in the streets for that? /sarc off

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-05-14 10:50|| 2010-05-14 10:50|| Front Page Top

#2 The phrench ones have only been dropped once

Posted by Beavis 2010-05-14 10:56|| 2010-05-14 10:56|| Front Page Top

#3 And I keep reading derogatory information about the performance of the Aegis-equivalent radar and missiles on those frigates, to the effect that their ESSM-equivalent can't hit sea-skimming missiles of the sort that are all the style from threat nations.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-05-14 11:30|| 2010-05-14 11:30|| Front Page Top

#4 I kinda like the idea that other nation's ships are inferior, makes it easier if we need to sink them.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-05-14 12:15|| 2010-05-14 12:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Suggestion: Greece shouldn't buy any major weapons systems for a while. Let them fix their financial problems. There isn't going to be a war anywhere in the world where we, the Euros or anyone else is going to be depending on the Greeks. Let them use what they have now, let them train their military to be good and efficient with what they have now, and when the crunch is over, say in five or ten years, they can then figure out what kind of military they need and how to equip it.

Posted by Steve White 2010-05-14 14:55|| 2010-05-14 14:55|| Front Page Top

#6 You never know. They might want to make trouble in Cyprus again.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-05-14 15:34|| 2010-05-14 15:34|| Front Page Top

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