Reality as seen from the swamp. Eretz Israel

Submitted by SHmuel HaLevi (Israel), Mar 29, 2010 at 09:43

I am former Senior/Fellow Engineer with the US Department of Defense, Military Avionics Programs. I retain some worthy connections with my ex associates.

It has come to our attention that Mr. Saetoro Obama has apparently ordered the accelerated production by GD of M1 A3, the latest version of the main battle tank, to 15 tanks per day... There are 9000 or so Abrams tanks in inventory since it started production in the 80's. GD licensed the Egyptian production of an earlier version. In short, that makes for an average of 1 tank a day production. The tank is used almost entirely by the US and... the Islamic countries. Australia owns some as well.

Suddenly the Saetoro Obama fellowship is said to have upped that to 15 tanks a day or 1500, latest version, by July 2010. While we can easily extrapolate the intent, we would appreciate some of the other commenters to seek to confirm or deny the infomation.

That, should it be confirmed, would be an extremely dangerous gambit coupled to other stupid, vicious acts by the infirm set up in the US. Mr. Saetoro Obama is welcome to deny that and or inform the rest of us mortals for what possible use would be such huge fleet. Allow me to set aside pretense of secret, national security concerns. National security does not only apply to the US... And every day that goes by, we here, sense that indeed our security is far from being central to that folk.

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