Jeez! He is doing everybody a favour by showing some previews of pics he intends to release anyway. These are his own photographs, not something taken from some source on the internet or something like that. And he can do what he likes with it. If you don’t like it with the blocks, don’t see it just now and wait for the full release.

It is not nice to demand what is not yours!

:rolleyes:

Erm what is the point in putting this up when you cant see them anyway ? waste of forum space!

This is a very very old old report .. and i dont see why you have highlighted things.

Everyone knew this would be the outcome, the EH101 is just that much more survivable then the competitor and it has been proven.

score one for technological advancement.

maybe the US could give iran the Tomcats as a gesture of good will ?

The su-30 airframe comes directly from the 70’s su-27UB airframe (crappy according to you ?)… that is what I meant. But you get it anyway.

80’s

Well the su-30 and mig-29 are also 70’s airframes 😉

First flights

YF-16 : february 1974
Su-27 : May 1977
Mig-29 : october 1977
Mirage 2000 : March 1978
Gripen : December 1988

Wow so you too can google for aircraft dates. Please tell us all when the Airframe for the Su-30 came into service, and when the Airframe for the Gripen came into full op service.. I could also find this out but since you love to google.

also winking is a bad habit, and often taken as a flirt, if you mean it in those terms please carry on. 😉

Austin as much as i would like to agreee with you and trumpet the excellent abilities of the mirage i cannot. India defence is also a very questionable source they have come up with wonderful pipe dreams in the past only matched by BR’s dogged optimism.

It is designed as a bomber! and will serve stratigic command well incase Agni, Prithvi fail or are cancelled (highly unlikely). But as an MRCA the Mirage is not what the IAF should go into the new century with. The italian airforce before world war two spend loads of money on aircraft that were considered some of the best in the world, only to find when war started that their prized aircraft were not upto the task. India does not need the Mirage now! its a waste of space for anything other then deep penetration and N srike. even then it is hard to justify it when India should be working on ICBMS.