Global Military Spending Closing on Cold War Peak
 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050607/ts_ ... pending_dc
Kinda disturbing. I was extremely surprised that Russia is only spending 19 billion on their military, I mean the Russian Navy has never really been in the same league with the US navy or Royal Navy, but airforce has usually been decent and the army was, I was under the impression, one of the best in the world...

Humans spend to much time and effort killing one another.

we just boosted to like 20 billion think

Canada is supposed to be undergoing a huge renovation of its Military, apparently you guys still use propeller planes

i dunno if your joking or not...but there aren't any fighters in canada that are prop driven. We have f-18's.

Anyway, snowbirds are prop driven, but their arieal stunt team. CC-130's use props. A lot of planes use props. The US airforce have planes with Props because they use 130's and many other planes like that as well.

http://www.airforce.forces.gc.ca/equip/equip1_e.asp

As for global military spending, it is really disturbing that so much of this money is spent on military. Military expenditures far outweigh education, health and other programs like that, which is in my mind, sad.

Peacekeeping expenditures is something like 0.8% of total military expenditure.

I didn't mean that you guys still flew Spitfires into combat I was talking about some of the planes that I was reading about on the Canadian Airforces website.

[url:3178f]http://www.airforce.forces.gc.ca/equip/equip1_e.asp[/url:3178f]

The military does more then just fight, thus the need for prop planes for special jobs, aka search and rescue.

It is human nature. People will always be finding new and better ways, of killing each other. People pay those tax dollars in order to protect themsevles and their countries, but can anything really be protected if there is an all out war? Not that I am against us building up our military, but this is pretty disturbing.

[quote="$p!k3":6942c]I didn't mean that you guys still flew Spitfires into combat I was talking about some of the planes that I was reading about on the Canadian Airforces website.

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Uhm... Im pretty sure most armys in the world use prop planes for various reasons.
IE., the Swedish Airforce has the C130 Hercules, FSR (radarplane), DC3, etc, etc. There are heaps of uses for propplanes.