Hopefully, Mindy Kaling, or Viola Davis don’t find “Mexicans are rapists” jokes funny.

The reports say a Mig 29 which if we’re being generous is approaching 40 years old.

The side mounted cannon points to this being the P variant. The lack of infra red suppressors on the exhaust, and the infra red jammer behind the rotor implies that these are the original P variants of the early 1980s, without the additions that were made during the latter part of the Afghanistan war. These things are…

I don’t think a legitimate Pakistani government would deploy nuclear assets, even in a war with India. Anyway, they don’t have delivery systems to launch a warhead into America or Europe. But they can definitely arm the terrorists or provide them enough to create a dirty bomb if they think it serves them in any way.…

I think it is because of Kinja. I find it very difficult to search for replies in a thread. No idea why they have implemented it this way. Foxtrot Alpha follows me, so I don’t think any reply would be relegated to the grays. That said, I don’t know what happens if a reply is dismissed. Maybe that guy dismissed it, and…

Think again. Pakistan provided centrifuge designs to North Korea, Libya, and Iran. So, if what you say is actually the current think, then I guess no one has learned anything from the past.

Yeah, I guess so. Over the years, a lot of British and French colonies had to first create their statehood and then fight to maintain it. Talking about the present, Palestine is an apt example here, isn’t it?

Yeah, I don’t think I was the only person arguing with that guy. I have met my share of critics of Israel’s policies, and this one belonged to the rabid kind who would point to conspiracies instead of giving a logical or objective analysis of the issues.

Oh, it was the other way round. One idiot was accusing me of belonging to the Israeli propaganda machine, or something, and I told him that I come from a place closer to Pakistan than Israeli, and that if I really did work for the Israelis I wouldn’t be saying that Iran isn’t a big deal. It isn’t even like I am a big…

I grew up in India, though I live in the US now. India flies both the Mig-29 and the Su-30MKI. I grew up around Russian jets, but the Flanker derivatives are the only ones I’d call beautiful. Others served their purpose and were functional, but never beautiful. India upgraded some of its older Russian jets with…

If you refer to my initial reply, that is precisely what I said :

Hey, the only reason anyone doesn’t use their nuclear weapons is the threat of nuclear annihilation. I highly doubt there is any underlying superiority of morals that is attributing to this. The case in point though were the wars in the 1960s and 70s, when it was already rumored that they had several nuclear warheads.…

It wasn’t all that involved when a Pakistani scientist leaked nuclear information to North Korea, Iran, and Libya. What Iran does is rhetoric, and these chants are found all throughout the middle east, really. Anyway, as you see, Pakistan was behind the centrifuges that Iran had.

Brilliant repartee. Sadly, I come from a country closer to Pakistan than Israel. Maybe you could have guessed that from the way I wasn’t obsessing over Iran.

lol I wish I had that kind of money.

No, you misunderstood. I don’t think Pakistan’s government would commit such folly. The issue is the spread of terrorists in the western part of the country. Most of that region is completely lawless, and they increasingly attack the conventional forces placed there. The risk lies in civil war, like the one in Syria,…

The guy (or girl) I was replying to was comparing Israel to the US and claiming how different the US and Israel are, and how Israel is a terrorist nation that practices apartheid. I think it is relevant to state that Israel did not do what the US did, despite its enemies not possessing a nuclear weapon. That doesn’t…

I don’t think the weapons on parade have live warheads. It is more for PR than anything else.

My country did. And since my dad was serving in the Air Force, he saw it.

My dad was still serving in the Air Force when my country bought a version of the Su-27. He said the same thing, that it looked elegant. He used to say that it looked like a bigger brother of the Mig-29, which I found out at a later stage was the way they were designed to be.