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**tankfixer**

In article ,
says...
Bill Kambic wrote:

:On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:24:32 -0700, Fred J. McCall
wrote:
:
::It's also worth noting that during the Soviet era readiness rates were
::not all that "red hot" even in some elite units. That's one reason
::why they always built fairly simply and in large quantities. I don't
::know if this will change or not.
::
:
:And those 'large quantities just evaporated with the fall of the
:Soviet Union...
:
:Pish posh. They're sitting around, rusting. That's make them
:"unavailable presently." It does not equal "evaporation." At least
:not 'till they are beyond reclamation.
:

One more time. Airplanes don't 'rust'.

Which I never said.
I said "corrode"