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by ostriker
Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:11 pm
Forum: World Navies Today
Topic: Brazil buys 50 helicopters, 5 submarines from France
Replies: 114
Views: 31676

Re: Brazil buys 50 helicopters, 5 submarines from France

Probably the "De Gaulle effect". Excuse me to be french, finally may be you are right with us...

Bye
by ostriker
Sat Oct 10, 2009 1:12 pm
Forum: World Navies Today
Topic: Brazil buys 50 helicopters, 5 submarines from France
Replies: 114
Views: 31676

Re: Brazil buys 50 helicopters, 5 submarines from France

... The US is still in a debacle in Iraq and Afganistan over this issue. What are the rest doing? Just waiting to see what the US will do for taking the following one of the following options: 1. If the US wins they will run to the podium and say they are victors as well (De Gaulle style) 2. If the...
by ostriker
Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:17 pm
Forum: World Navies Today
Topic: Brazil buys 50 helicopters, 5 submarines from France
Replies: 114
Views: 31676

Re: Brazil buys 50 helicopters, 5 submarines from France

The Foch was sold for 80.000.000 of francs (12,2 millions of euros). My opinion is that this ship had to be sent to the brokers.

Regarding MEK, I think it is a endless debate, French and Britsh have their parts of responsibility on the loss of these 1297 crewmans.
by ostriker
Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:39 pm
Forum: World Navies Today
Topic: Russia to Buy French Helicopter Carrier
Replies: 57
Views: 50726

Re: Russia to Buy French Helicopter Carrier

Hummm... I didn't notice the absence of shield..., nor the redcross moreover... I can humbly suppose that my pengouin lost his shield somewhere around Santiago de Compostela and was later drawn by Florence Nightingale...
by ostriker
Mon Oct 05, 2009 12:23 pm
Forum: World Navies Today
Topic: Russia to Buy French Helicopter Carrier
Replies: 57
Views: 50726

Re: Russia to Buy French Helicopter Carrier

RF wrote:So Ostriker, what happened to that Prussian helmet?
I am trying to remove my lack of knowledge about "Middle Ages". :D I discover splendid things. So my avatar is "up to date" :dance:
by ostriker
Sun Oct 04, 2009 6:38 pm
Forum: World Navies Today
Topic: Russia to Buy French Helicopter Carrier
Replies: 57
Views: 50726

Re: Russia to Buy French Helicopter Carrier

As usually, you don't reply to the question...
by ostriker
Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:33 pm
Forum: World Navies Today
Topic: Russia to Buy French Helicopter Carrier
Replies: 57
Views: 50726

Re: Russia to Buy French Helicopter Carrier

Are you gonna to give us all your anti-french stuff catalog Karl? Why didn't you reply to my last question? Pfff... Reading you give me the impression that France is the only country that don't deserve to exist. Do you think your(s) governments(s) is/are perfects. STOP DREAMING. PS: Type "Mistr...
by ostriker
Fri Oct 02, 2009 6:16 pm
Forum: World Navies Today
Topic: Brazil buys 50 helicopters, 5 submarines from France
Replies: 114
Views: 31676

Re: Brazil buys 50 helicopters, 5 submarines from France

Nelson Ott wrote:
I agree with ostriker, examples of unreliability can be found everywhere. My point is: please do not praise a supposed better reliability of French gear, simply because, as noted before in this topic, they are not better nor worse than the other's.
That's the point.
by ostriker
Fri Oct 02, 2009 6:13 pm
Forum: World Navies Today
Topic: Russia to Buy French Helicopter Carrier
Replies: 57
Views: 50726

Re: Russia to Buy French Helicopter Carrier

Pfff... Reading you give me the impression that France is the only country that don't deserve to exist. Do you think your(s) governments(s) is/are perfects. STOP DREAMING. PS: Type "Mistral class" or something like that in google, and you will see what is the Mistral class. It is not a an ...
by ostriker
Thu Oct 01, 2009 5:49 pm
Forum: World Navies Today
Topic: Brazil buys 50 helicopters, 5 submarines from France
Replies: 114
Views: 31676

Re: Brazil buys 50 helicopters, 5 submarines from France

Nelson, I must agree with Bill, Brazil has not to complain for having bought a second hand carrieR. The Foch was out of date and Brazil was aware of what they were buying... for steel price... In my opinion, - I won't be so harmfull as Bill is -, is that every nation is proud of his own technologies...
by ostriker
Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:12 pm
Forum: World Navies Today
Topic: Brazil buys 50 helicopters, 5 submarines from France
Replies: 114
Views: 31676

Re: Brazil buys 50 helicopters, 5 submarines from France

Karl Heidenreich wrote:
P.D. Don´t buy French, bad investement. Go a little more expensive and buy German or go as far as Russia.
Absolutely!

Ask the greeks for that, they have no regrets for buying german type 214 submarines insted of Scorpène. German stuff is never out of order, as the US ones, its perfect!
by ostriker
Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:45 pm
Forum: World Navies Today
Topic: Brazil buys 50 helicopters, 5 submarines from France
Replies: 114
Views: 31676

Re: Brazil buys 50 helicopters, 5 submarines from France

Karl, it seems you are forgetting the main point: Business. It is useless to be narrow-minded, industrial powers have sold, are selling , will sell, weapons everywhere. Infortunately, the moral hasn't her place here. And it is not the case only for your -loved- France. I remind you that other count...
by ostriker
Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:36 pm
Forum: World Navies Today
Topic: Brazil buys 50 helicopters, 5 submarines from France
Replies: 114
Views: 31676

Re: Brazil buys 50 helicopters, 5 submarines from France

Sadly it seems that populist socialist Ignacio Lula da Silva, Brazil´s President, is keen to put his country and Latin America in trouble with an armamentist race. Not even during the dictatorship periods of the 60ies or 70ies a Latin American country has developed such an agressive and excesive pl...
by ostriker
Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:20 pm
Forum: World Navies Today
Topic: Russia to Buy French Helicopter Carrier
Replies: 57
Views: 50726

Re: Russia to Buy French Helicopter Carrier

Hey Karl, don't worry; it is not sure at all that the Russians are going to order anything to the "Frogs". You can sleep well. :wink: I will really hope the French sell to the ruskies their idea of stationary defense system (Maginot). Maybe the western powers sometine need them to act like...
by ostriker
Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:56 pm
Forum: Books and Reference
Topic: Littorio class battleship book
Replies: 4
Views: 6673

I will order it soon... A good way to learn such a beautiful language like the Italian one... :lol: