Karakachanov will buy an aircraft carrier, old and new F-16! He and his deputy must be playing for commissions! – 2024-08-10 23:06:53

/ world today news/ In an interview with “Geopolitika” magazine, Defense Minister Krasimir Karakachanov stated that the choice of a new fighter is primarily a political issue based on geostrategic motives and interests, and expertise will be in the background. At the same time, Deputy Minister of Defense Atanas Zapryanov announced that an opportunity would be opened not only for “second-hand” F-16s, but also for new F-16 aircraft, as the Swedish Gripen remained in the competition “. The other big news is that because of the shortage of personnel for the army, the Ministry of Defense is starting a program to bring back officers laid off in the last 10 years…

Apparently new winds are blowing in the Ministry of War and the old lobbyists are back on the scene. Just a day before Karakachanov’s geopolitical interview, he himself once again swore that if we are going to buy fighters, they will not be the 30-year-old “F-16”, but only new ones. He even timidly said that we could ask the Yankees for brand-new F-18s. Because no self-respecting country, not to mention the poorest, could not afford old airplanes, which will go under our noses because of the ungodly expensive repairs at our expense in the overseas manufacturing plant.

Now Karakachanov’s right-hand man claims the opposite – that the 30-year-old F-16s are back in the game. Like an old barracks dog, one speaking in front of the line, but quite another doing to the wards rabbits, the retired general shyly mentioned the participation of the “Gripens” in the rigged competition only because of the Olympic principle. Even a neutral Sweden is far away, and the new Big Brother is here and has a resident minister in the Ministry of Defense. And you opened her mouth against the old kites of the new allies, you thundered her like a retired forage.

The minister and his deputy have done their calculations well – they are lobbying for two different planes, but the manufacturer is one. There is no blank here, because the commission payer is the same. Whichever lobby wins, the bonus is guaranteed.
Anyway, we will buy second-hand planes, Karakachanov and Co. will also recruit second-hand officers. Why didn’t the old dog Zapryanov mention that most of these laid-off officers were thrown out like dirty kittens not by aliens, but by the 2009 killings and hangings in the MoD GERB-er military ministers?

Because I am annoyingly curious, two months ago in the American specialized magazine “The National Interest” I came across an article dedicated to the future of the “F-18-Super Hornet”. In light of Karakachanov’s lobbying for the F-18, a comment by Dan Gillian, a program manager at the Boeing Corporation, is of particular interest.

He said Boeing plans to produce two fewer planes a month than it did in its peak in 2000. That’s because the US Navy is buying fewer planes. But with the Navy’s projected purchase of 80 new Super Hornets in 2018, Boeing will try to maintain the line’s capacity at least through 2020.

And here’s the icing on the cake in Dan Gillian’s revelations: “Despite secured orders from the Navy, to maintain line capacity and make the Super Hornet the Navy’s primary aircraft by 2040, it is imperative to significantly increase foreign requests for “F-18”

What a strange coincidence with Karakachanov’s sudden love for “F-18”! And what a surprise at the neglect of his subordinate Deputy Minister of the “F-18” and his lobbying for the old “F-16”! And the even bigger surprise from the fact that the deck-mounted “F-18” was developed for the needs of the Navy, is for the Air Force. Sirech, to land and take off from an aircraft carrier, is not from the runways of Bezmer and Graf Ignatievo.

Which leads us to the patriotic thought that Minister Karakachanov plans to buy an aircraft carrier. And what if he doesn’t buy it – we have the sea, we have the Atia naval base, and he doesn’t take the billions out of his pocket. However, the commissions go directly into someone’s pockets – whether general, whether ministerial, whether prime ministerial.