Dwight, thanks for the link.
Sure is a cool video!
QUOTE: but what I find truly amazing about it is all the US technology that made it possible. Hughes,Cadillac Gauge,TRW and the like make this Merkava tick. Not to say that the Israeli's don't need a theater specific tank design for thier needs, but, what about all our US tax dollars that went to the development of fire control, hydraulics and armor design and development. The IDF got a real "bargain" here, you'd think that they could buy a few M1A2's to make a good will gesture to repay all that "free" R&D that our defense establishment executed. I'm sure the same story is repeated in Israeli aircraft.
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Steve.
When it comes to Israelis and weapons people all over the world shout "It's American money!" but they forget, for some reason
, that Israel is also an independent country that do buiseness with the rest of the world including USA.
Maybe some of the money was deliverd to Israel by the American Tax payer, ie - you, and the rest of the citizens of USA, however you have to understand that Israel is standing next to USA. meaning Israel is an ellay. It's the only country that stand on the same grounds like the Americans. I invite you to Israel to see the we are mostly westerns rather then middle-easterns. we have democracy we're capitalist, and we do contribute to USA by means of technology, computer systems, agriculture and in more several areas/ways.
Please understand that Israel is the one and only stronghold of the democracy between totalitery states that believe in the "old ways".
I love my country and I love USA. I thank all the people that help us.
However, I truly belive that israel can hold it's own groung without any foriegn support !!! that's what we did in 1967, after the "6 day war" when france launched there embargo. after that the relationship with US started to flurish.
So, I invite you, and everybody else here so you can see for your self that we are more "American" then you could ever imagine