South Korea vows air strikes if North attacks
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Incoming Defence Minister Kim Kwan-jin promised air strikes if South Korea was attacked again
South Korea’s defence minister-designate has promised a tougher response, including air strikes, if North Korea attacks again.
Kim Kwan-jin was responding to questions in parliament during his confirmation hearing.
North Korea shelled a Southern island near the two countries’ disputed maritime border last week, killing four people and destroying many homes.
South Korea’s spy chief has said another Northern attack was likely.[/QUOTE]
You are well aware that this will also effect the Gripen don’t you.
India is already getting design help from Fincantieri for the current IAC.
Is firing a BVRAAM part of the IOC ?
I think SAAB will surprise quite a few people in this forum in the coming months.
From that link Otaku gave

To all those who say F-35 is not on offer to India.
Aircraft usually keep their landing gear down during first flights, may be like that during the testing phase of hovering the F 35B is keeping its bays open.
Can we expect T-50s as part of the 2018 opening ceremony.
An Israeli upgrade may be complicated without any help from the OEM but on the other hand it may cost much less. I wonder if the Mirage can be upgraded with Elta E/M 2502 Active Array which should have an advantage over the Mechanically Scanned RDY/2 radars proposed as part of the French upgrade deal.
Or may be we may not see an upgrade deal at all (or a fairly limited one) especially in the case of a single engined fighter being selected for the MRCA, we may see the Mirage 2000 being replaced by the MRCA progressively.
A follow on MRCA purchase may be aimed at replacing Mirage 2000s and Mig 29UPGs anyway.
Great News
SSBN Arihant On Deterrent Patrol With Strategic Nukes By 2012: Navy Chief
India’s nuclear triad — a matrix of weapons delivery systems from land, air and sub-sea — will be complete with the commissioning of India’s first SSBN, Arihant in 2011-2012. In a significant comment at his annual press conference today in New Delhi, Indian Navy chief Admiral Nirmal Verma categorically stated that when the Arihant is put to see in two years, it will be on deterrent patrol with strategic weapons on board.
We shall see. Mirage 2000 is set to get MICA EM/IR anyway.
My last post in this thread.
So all of you believe that South Korea should take it on the Chin no matter how much they are provoked, if their Ships are Sunk, Civillians are shelled etc, because of the threat of a costly war. Will any of your countries suffer such indignity ?
Would England suffer such a fate ? Have they ever, when it was much easier to have peace with Hitler, there was a time when Britian stood on its own (before the Americans and Russians entered the war) against the might of Nazi Germany. Before that against the French under Nepolean and before that against the Spanish Armada.For Americans did Kenneddy backoff during the Cuban Missile Crisis even at the risk of a third wold war he did not. National Pride is sometimes worth sacrificing every last person including yourself.
If you let the North Korean establishment get away with everything they will threaten your home next with missiles with ranges to reach Europe and then ones which can stirke Continental United States. You simply cannot let regimes like North Korea have their way.
And then there is a need to make a difference to the life of the opressed North Koreans.
Let me end this by quoting Ben Franklin – “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
& Thomas Jefferson – “If there’s something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.”
Interesting picture may be this was the original Chinese design for the J-10 modified slightly with the influence of Lavi to form the current fighter.
The reason being Navy already having the Derby in its inventory with the upgraded Sea Harriers. But AFAIK Python V is not in IAF or IN service. Note that its ASRAAM and AIM 9-x thats being short listed as possible SRAAMs for upgraded Jaguars (replacing Magic IIs) and not Python V.
In short i believe the IAF SRAAM inventory will have R73 variants and a western SRAAM which will be common to both the MRCA and upgraded Jaguars.
Now the IAF does not operate derby and may ask for something else. The choice of derby may be because of its light weight compared to the R 77. Another factor being the LCAs radar is based on Elta E/M 2032, hence integrating an Israeli radar guided missile would be much easier.
It would be an interesting decision IMHO, the CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) was highly critical of the Navy’s decision to purchase Derby saying it did not meet the Navy’s own range requirements. A government already battling various scams may not go down that route again.
Their tanks whilst obsolete in comparison to American and South Korean ones are well maintained with properly aligned barrels.
Opinion not Fact.
Many of their later tanks have at least half decent sights and possibly even thermal imagers.
Their crews are of reasonably high moral, training and highly indoctrinated (also they actually have food to eat).
Again your opinion not so according to CNN
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/24/north.korea.capability/index.html
As for the soldiers morale they will have more food to eat and more for their families in a United Korea.
Korea especially the North is NOT tank country, actually the Korean war of the fifties is often used as an example of the risks in tank warfare. Significant areas of land is impassable for tanks with rocky hills and rice paddies forcing the armour to stick to the roads massively increasing the risk of ambush by infantry.
Throw in all the MRLs and artillary along with the huge numbers of infantry the North can field (with anti tank missiles) and Korea from the DMZ all the way up to the Yalu river (actually a significant part of the South as well) is a pretty lethal place for tanks to operate!
Korea have some interesting terrain but its no Vietnam, the UN forces almost conqured it before the Chinese got involved. And every inch of DPRK don’t need to be captured, if the captial falls along with the leadership the end would be nigh. It all depends on China.
As for the DPRK the Mig29 isn’t the main issue rather the thousands of rockets, missiles, artillary and tanks they field!
We all know how fast Iraqi tanks went against superior firepower of the USAF.