After reading the article about the Ukranian airforce I started thinking about what will the Ukraine replace it’s ageing fighter fleet with. Obviously this won’t happen soon but given that its entire fleet was inherited from the Soviet Union, then obviously it will be an issue in the next 10 or so years.
Now the Ukraine’s current government is pro-West but there is still a large population who are pro-Russian.
Russia would chuck up a stink if the Ukraine acquired modern Western aircraft.
Furthermore there would probably be some sort of capability loss if the specialised Russian aircraft were replaced by multi-role “jack of all trades, master of none” aircraft.
So do people think?
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May 3, 2006 at 10:52 am