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[edit] Strategic Airlift Capability

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[edit] Il-76

Well you have encouraged me to do some deeper research into the operators, so I revamped the operator section of the Ilyushin Il-76 article (and added an updated map). Let me know if you have any additional data for the map. Thanks! Josh 06:56, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian Leopards to Afghanistan

If the post on my page is in reference to an article, it's probably best to discuss this there, or at least give the article's name, so I at least have an idea what it's in reference to. Thanks. - BillCJ 16:53, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

The C-17 Globemaster edit of Jan 28 2007

[edit] Re C-17 article

Sorry, I didn't realise that 'runway excursion' was a correct aviation term - I don't know much about that kind of stuff. However, neither will most of the people who read the article, so could I suggest that you use a non-technical term? (such as the aircraft 'left the runway when landing' or whatever is appropriate and correct. cheers, --Nick Dowling 04:11, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Accident of chinese AWACS

I found some contradictory sources for the type of this aircraft.See China PLA Air Force KJ-200 Accident--Ksyrie 00:20, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

In fact,if you carefully read the webpages what you had presented to my talk page,you will find the sinodefence's one [1]] claiming it was a KJ-200 was based on the chinese internet forum some Chinese websites have reported that the plane was in fact a KJ-200 AEW aircraft,because when I search in the chinese search engine by keyword KJ-200 and crash in chinese,I cann't find serious chinese site reporting it was a KJ-200 except some millitary forums--Ksyrie 18:03, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Real fighting in Afghanistan

I don't think your last modification in the War in Afghanistan was Neutral. The last time a Canadian was killed in "combat", ie in a firefight, was back in Oct 2006. Except for one who died in a mortar attack, all those that have died since, were killed by IEDs, mines, road accidents, friendly fire and self inflicted wounds. Based on that, you chose to put those that are better at driving over IEDs than those who are better at avoiding them but had recent firefight deaths? - Did I say that? Don't think I did.

I think that sorting them in Alphabetical order, or by numerical order as they were was a better idea. Wikipedia must not get involved in political debates....That is just as arbitrary and out of context (and lacking ‘neutrality’) as the order I placed it in.

In what about the French Fighter Bombers, who conducted Air Strikes in support of ground troops yesterday, that is not "fighting" I suppose. - Did I say that? Don't think I did.

And Australia, which has only a PRT team of a few hundred, and no aircraft, and which has only had four fatalities is, according to you, doing more fighting than France and Germany?

And of course you don’t measure intensity and frequency of combat engagement by the numbers of fatalities. Just because Australia has fewer fatalities than Germany, that does not mean Australia has had fewer combat engagements. 79 Spanish deaths compared to 4 Australian does not mean Spain has seen more combat than Australia (respect to the allied fallen, regardless of circumstances). A larger deployment involved in a quieter area, compared to a smaller deployment in a more intense area. Which is more significant is a matter of interpretation, and can be an arbitrary distinction.

The phrase ‘combatant’ and ‘belligerent’ are matters of interpretation. It is inevitable that people will have different perspectives. We could list every flag of every nation who has sent a soldier. But we would have 40 plus flags and it would look silly. And lack real world context. Or we could play the numbers game. But again that lacks context.

And any attempt to add ‘real-world context’ and we fall back into the old problem of who to include and who to exclude. What is combat and what is not.

If we say “well, we have to have the US”, then surely we have to have Britain. Then the Dutch? Iceland? Tonga?

In my opinion, there is a simple solution to this inevitably ‘matter of interpretation’ problem. Get rid of the flags altogether. And have links to articles (such as Afghanistan Coalition Allies and ISAF, and they both need work) where real context can be added, and people can make up their own minds as to who is doing the ‘real fighting’.

This needs wider discussion. Chwyatt (talk) 11:14, 13 February 2008 (UTC)


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