Re: 2nd/3rd rate powers - LLAR - and now Africans...

--- Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> wrote:
> John Atkinson wrote:
> 
> >Actually, their [PAU} battleline seems to be
> composed of
> >ex-ESU handmedowns,
> 
> Er... well, yes, at least if you consider five brand
> new Rostov-class BDNs 
> delivered straight from the spaceyards to be
> "handmedowns"...

At least as much so as I consider the T-72Gs the Sovs
sent Iraq to be "ex-Sov handmedowns".

It implies they either cannot produce capitals, or
cannot produce them at a rate sufficient to make up
for losses.

John

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