August 29, 2005

Cheery defense factoids.

Quote #1:

North Korea is deploying new land- and sea-based ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads and may have sufficient range to hit the United States. Communist Korea had acquired the know-how during the 1990s from Russian missile specialists and by buying 12 former Soviet submarines which had been sold for scrap metal but retained key elements of their missile launch systems, Jane's Defence Weekly said Wednesday.
Quote #2:

The USAF is going to replace 2,000 F-15s and F-16s with 200 F-22s.

That's right, 200.
U.S. Army/Air Force Aviation Journal, 9/04.

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