And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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A few are actually still in service; most are mothballed.
ReplyDeleteThe Serbs shot down one and damaged another beyond repair using obsolete radars and SAM's. A decade later, the Iraqis couldn't touch them. The Russians and Chinese have had 30 to work on the problem of detection and shoot down, and they have their own versions.