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Venezuela tests its new Chinese jets
By: Press TV on: 14.03.2010 [06:45 ] (549 reads)
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Venezuela tests its new Chinese jets
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:08:45 GMT
Venezuela has tested six training and light attack jets bought from China for defense and the campaign against drug trafficking.
President Hugo Chavez ordered a total of eighteen Chinese-built K-8 jets after a plan to buy similar jets from Brazil failed because they included US electrical systems.
Venezuelan officials say the jets will be used to train pilots and intercept drug traffickers who use Venezuela as a route to take Colombian cocaine to the United States, Europe, and Africa.
Venezuela has also bought a network of ten radars from China and has spent about four billion dollars on Russian weapons, including fighter jets.
SG/HGL
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=120767§ionid=351020704
by phil_s66 on 14.03.2010 [17:47 ]
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Chavez is a true hero. he is a fine example of a man with balls, a man who tells it how it is. China and Russia can reap the benefits while western fools carry on collapsing.
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by LittleHelper on 14.03.2010 [18:11 ]
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Iran should watch closely and learn from Venezuelan experience with those Chinese fighter jets.
Are the jets good for training ?
Are the jets useful in air combat ?
Are the jets reliable and easy to maintain ?
If Venezuelan experience is good, Iran should buy those jets, too.
If there are problems, Iran should first make sure that all problems are solved by the Chinese jet makers.
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by eureka on 15.03.2010 [02:48 ]
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Here we have Venezuela buying jets from China to intercept drug traffickers coming from the cocaine capital of the world Columbia. But the big irony is that the US military is occupying 7 military bases in Columbia and are not doing anything to prevent the drugs from being processed farless trafficked.
It is clear that the purpose of the americans occupying these military bases has absolutely nothing to do with drug trafficking but rather with overthrowing and destabilising the governments of latin america/south america, who don't tow the american line.
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