On Thursday, Chad sent a warplane and troops that drove the extremists out of a north-eastern Nigeria border town, the first such act by foreign troops on Nigerian soil.
But the cost of that, let alone of developing an entirely new European warplane, could prove prohibitively expensive; the current three Eurofighter, Dassault's Rafale and the Gripen are costing a total of about $100 billion.
It didn't: after an unusually peaceful morning on Friday and a reduction in the number of areas affected by fighting, by Saturday the usual violence, including shelling, car bombs and warplane attacks targeting suburbs of Damascus, the capital, and Idleb in the north-west, had resumed.
Others opine that by flying its warplane so close to Syrian airspace Turkey was asking for trouble.
Artillery and warplane shelling by the regime has increased in and around the city in recent days as a patch of bad weather has cleared.State media, though, told a different story: "terrorists" (the regime's term for the armed opposition) fired two rockets at the building, according to the governor of Aleppo.
It became operational in 2005, but still requires further development and is deployed on just one active American warplane so far.
What the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has produced on Russia's recent attack on Georgia is a greywash, a pile of slime and sludge that conceals the truth.Georgia says that on August 6th a Russian warplane fired a missile over its territory, apparently aimed at a new NATO-compatible radar station.
The next year, on the agencies' mistaken advice, an American warplane bombed China's embassy in Belgrade.The two main prompts to reform, however, have been the September 11th attacks, in which some 3,000 Americans died, and the spooks' hallucinations about Iraq's weapons programmes, which were used to justify a war and bloody peace that have cost tens of thousands of lives.
EMALS can accelerate a heavy warplane to 180 knots (333kph)—about 30 knots faster than a steam catapult.
China appears to be designing a spacecraft-launcher that attaches to the undercarriage of a large warplane.
Last week it produced video footage of what looks like a Russian warplane shooting down an unmanned Georgian surveillance drone.
