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Where's SL league equipment when you need it?

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Where's SL league equipment when you need it?
Post by biochem   » Sat Jan 18, 2014 10:07 pm

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The US government politicians are negotiating whether or not to sell Apaches to the Iraq "government". Given the probability that whatever we sell them we are going to wind up fighting with it on the other side sooner or later, where is the 21st century equivalent of SL military equipment when you need it.
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Re: Where's SL league equipment when you need it?
Post by Annachie   » Sat Jan 18, 2014 11:38 pm

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Business as normal isn't it?
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You are so going to die. :p ~~~~ runsforcelery
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still not dead. :)
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Re: Where's SL league equipment when you need it?
Post by Daryl   » Sun Jan 19, 2014 6:16 am

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I for one are quite happy for the US to sell Apaches to Iraq. During the Iraq war Apaches had a 17% availability rate even though they had the whole US military support system backing them. Let the Iraqis spend billions of oil dollars buying them, and within a very short time they will be as useful as the WMD, that Rumsfeld (among others) arranged during the Iraq/Iran war, was a decade later. Personal knowledge, it is not easy to maintain complex military equipment, particularly old tech like Apaches. Plus a medieval society riddled by corruption, superstition, and nepotism also makes it even more difficult.
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