# What are the logistics involved in delivering F16s to Egypt?

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**Created:** [July 26, 2013, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-logistics-involved-in-delivering-f16s-to-egypt/664624 "2013-07-26T20:41:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-logistics-involved-in-delivering-f16s-to-egypt/664624/41 "2013-07-30T20:37:28Z")

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> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> Italics added.  
> I’d just like to interject at this point that this quoted graf, particularly the italicized sentences, is one of the most comical I’ve ever seen in a work claiming to be historical.
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> Reportin’ and finding out stuff about stuff sure makes your puzzler hurt. It’s just plain to darn hard to fight ignorance.

Again, I’m afraid I don’t see your point. J.F.C. Fuller was hardly an author ‘claiming’ to write a historical work. [Maj. Gen. J. F. C. Fuller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._F._C._Fuller) was among other things a highly respected military historian. He also along with Sir B. H. Liddell Hart pioneered mechanized warfare theory. The point he was making, which seems to have eluded you, is not that ‘findin’ out stuff makes your head hurt’ but that official figures provided during wartime and oftentimes for some time afterwards are highly tainted by propaganda and the natural human desire to present things in the best possible light for ones self or side. I’ve no doubt the RAF figure of 185 German aircraft shot down on Sep 15, 1940 was honestly believed, or honestly believed to only be a slight exaggeration by the RAF. The fact remains that German records examined post war only indicate the loss of 60 aircraft that day. Remember how successful the Patriot was claimed to be at intercepting Scuds in the 1991 Gulf War? During the war the claimed succesful interception rate was 80-97%. Postwar the GAO found the success rate [was closer to 9%](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/weapons/patriot.html). The first edition of _The Second World War_ was published in 1947, two years after the war had ended. It’s no shock that Fuller said he couldn’t vouch for the accuracy of any of the figures used in the book.

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