many people will be laughing at Trump and his F-55 . Which by the consensus of many on the internet , apparently came from what Trump sits on since the day he was born .
that's not the question for you to ask . This instead is the question . What do hydroelectric dams have got to do with Boeing ? For this post , quite a lot ...
it was 1952 or 55 or whatever when Israelis started writing articles on the water supply issue . A enlarged form of the "Periphery States" espoused by Ben Gurion , this seeked Turkey , lran and Ethiopia damming rivers that flowed into the major Arab countries . Finding a Western audience only after the Egyptians started on the Aswan Dam themselves . Which was welcomed by the West until it was succesfully sabotaged and whatnot by ardent anti-Communists in the US , which turned the "neutral" Nasser into an "enemy" of the West . The Suez canal was nationalized to pay for the Dam , the Colonial Europeans tried to stab Ike in the back when he was highly hoping to reap nice stuff from Hungarian issues . You know , big stuff , small wins leading to eventual big victory and stuff ...
anti-Semitism is a real thing . Israelis were unliked as Socialists who were only tolerated because of the Holocaust , their power in the media was limited to those who would have cared to listen to them . And everyone would look into some dark motive behind whatever they did . In this case , the French arming Israel with nuclear weapons , with the idea that a temporary humbling of Egypt would or even could have changed the course of the war in Algeria . Still nothing Turkish wise .
it was 1957 . Eisenhower had been briefed with remarks from odd sources that the US no longer was out of range as the Russians could now orbit objects . Something actually banned by treaties and whatnot as minor powers can copy this too , dropping things down from fractional orbits and stuff , cheaper than a fully done ICBM . Sputnik was a major media event , because the Jews in the media of New York collaborated with European interests to hurt Ike , after the debacle of the Canal . This made him to consider things fully . Things like the only time Israelis could ever need a nuclear weapon as a blackmail thing against people they were not ever going to be able to defeat . Which were not Arabs , nor the Superpowers , nor the rest of the UN Security Council 5 . The only states allowed by the UN structure to have nuclear weapons . Of which France had not yet succeded and Taiwan seemed most unlikely to invade the Asian continent ; thus it might have to be the Red China .
this is why everything kinda sorta changed , with Eisenhower faciliating , from 1958 onwards .
this is why by 1970 people from this country could talk planes with any US company they chose to . It was an unique situation . If ı was somehow taken to 1958 , ı would have failed anyhow , like because ı am r16 . If the guy who made the deal with Eisenhower in 1958 was taken to any other year , he wouldn't have managed to do it .
no , this does not conflict with previous stuff . One deals with Israel that destabilizes the Middle East order America desires in the Fifties and might try to nuke a NATO ally come 70s or 80s or whatever . The other involves some guy in Lord Vader's lot:
hey , wait , you can always assume the very same European -former- Colonialists and their proxy in the Middle East trying their things . Like nobody was talking about an Israeli-Turkish war and Israeli Goverment Ministers were not talking about a Greater Israel before Syria fell , right ?
"big picture" is a concept so much liked as mocking subject . Süleyman Demirel was "the king of dams" , being the youngest ever Goverment official at his level during the Menderes era , he wouldn't have opposed building dams on Dicle-Fırat ; and various American goverments kept him out of trouble all along ; he shouldn't have ended up as the Centre Right leader after Celal Bayar started to hate his guts . Bülent Ecevit as Centre Left wouldn't have the slightest problem with irrigation and richer farmers , even with richer farmers with Kurdish origins . They would do the dams and might or might cut the rivers ... And both of them ignored all the indignant charges against some bunch of traitors . If it came to that and it was that much necessary they WOULD have bought this
not the real thing and at CFC there is no need for people to see the light or something , but Lockmart strangely accepted this as real last year or so . It involves putting the A-10 gun into an F-16 and it is not like easy and it is really dumb , if you ask anyone with a degree in aeronautics . Except it was some work , quite a bit of it real and actually proposed . Because Eisenhower . As USAF observers and some USN observers on site were laughing at it as a joke , the General Dynamics people were willing to sign contracts and stuff and the fools willing to buy . Supposedly there are like 983 different drawings between the museum piece and what was to fly . From this CFC people will only deduce that Lockmart was resigning to let USAF NGAD go (becoming the Boeing F-47) but there is something that will connect this garbage and new stuff and it will be to some minor Lockmart advantage . Nothing is free in life , or something .
as capable as this country could manage back in the day , the guys were after an improved F-5 , beyond the stupid little thing America was dumping on the unworthy and the
F-16 F-16C was eventually became the chosen thing with lack of other options and stuff , to cut the story short . Like the basic F-16 is still limited in stuff but it would have been the export thing we could buy in peacetime and whatever .
once the Cold War was over and the world was unipolar and American Evangelists allowed their pals to bask in the glory of having become the very single American Foreign interest and even when the Pentagon failed to place new generations of stealth fighters , the F-22 being the foremost into the service , the F-16 was still there . So , in a some no doubt glorious feat worthy of remembering with parades in downtown Washington DC every year , USAF blocked the F-16 , with bringing UAE as a partner . Like the radar on the E/F should be liquid cooled , patented and whatnot and owners being our masters who wouldn't let us to have it . And a thrust limit of 32 000 pounds and neither engine nor the avionics serve elsewhere or whatever . Like , if any foolish Americans were to discover the 1970s .
trump does not think the Roman numeral X is 5 in Arabic . He sat in Qatar with one CEO to his right and one CEO to his left . If people do not buy the F-47 , his Presidential number and whatnot , he will first sell the current 32 000 to Qatar and then use the same in a new Lockmart jet . People here will pave the streets with dogsht instead of buying Lockmart and like we are doomed or something . With the British making the Spanish buy the trainer in Ankara to put their engine in . They haven't given up the lust to spend the can-not-be-unlimited funds with their stuff . Like another door shut and people should leave this country !
but it is a decent idea , this F-55 . Already realized in the J-35 of China which mimics not the F-35 but its USAF origins from 1998 , likely to have a deeper bombbay and increased performance and no doubt Lockmart can place it into service in this century .
the thing is and this obviously a funny thing for me to say it but Culp can sign anything he likes and Trump controls the US treasury and they can do whatever they like . Clearly they haven't spoken to the Indians . Not buying the F-47 , not shirking from lobbing Sparrows/Aspides/PL-10s at the F-55 . In 20 years time , when it flies . Like what are you people afraid of ?
