[Consim-l] Weapons of War DVD (trying a second time)

[Markus Stumptner]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Ron Walenciak wrote:
> I was surprised by Brazil and found it interesting: It's really the French 
> carrier Foch, recommissioned Sao Paulo, equipped with A-4KU and TA-4KU 
> Skyhawks purchased from Kuwait. Wow!

Thanks for that pointer. Particularly fascinating as I realised that these 
are Skyhawks flying off a South American carrier 25 years after the 
Falklands War... (and in fact *bought* almost 20 years after the Falklands 
War...)

Globalsecurity.org has this to say about the Skyhawk purchase:

> The acquisition shows a craze of arguable largeness of the strategical 
> point of view.

I think I get their meaning, but only just. :-)

Markus

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