happy with our latest arms supplier, Israel, for "effing" up in Lebanon with the same advanced "battle-tested" airforce systems they had sold us for a couple of billion dollars, if this Reuters analysis on the Israeli arms market is true. To quote:

"We are talking about the holy grail of future combat, and Israel did a great job of building sophisticated, world-leading systems based on the understanding they were born in battle," said Robert Hewson, editor of Jane's Air-Launched Weapons. "This is certainly going to make people question the salesmen a bit more, because it appears that in the hour of need this stuff is not working as advertised," he said.

Barbara Opall-Rome of the Defense News journal predicted upsets to Israel's major export deals, including a recent multibillion-dollar package ordered by its top client, India. She described Israel as one of a club of militarily advanced countries whose air forces take pride of place in war planning. "Air power enthusiasts will be licking their wounds and they will surely have to go back and revise their arguments," she said. "I'm sure there will be a lot more humility now."

Does Israel, like the retail stores, have a returns policy? Oy Ehud et al., pliss be taking all of these weapons-shemapons back, and be sending some of the agro technology you got to Vidharbha.