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Should be up there with a terrorist manual. Are you really giving advice to dictators who commit crimes against humanity ?

Beeb reports a French fighter shot down a Libyan jet. Forum explosion predicted if its a Rafale.

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1448: Overnight, the US bombed the wreckage of the F-15 fighter jet which crash-landed near Benghazi, Reuters says, quoting a US official.

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1457: More now on the bombing of that wreckage of the US plane (previous entry). Officials said the wreckage was bombed “to prevent materials from getting into the wrong hands”, Reuters reports.

From the BBC so we will never know 🙂

Antony, pull the plug on the MMRCA

ndian Air Force chief, Air Chief Marshall PV Naik, has surprised everyone by declaring more than once that the ministry of defence was just days away from deciding the winner of the keenly-watched global tender to sell the IAF 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) for an estimated Rs 42,000 crore. Naik was evidently hustling his boss, Defence Minister AK Antony, into an early decision, illustrating how narrow service considerations often trump the national interest. For Antony, who has indicated that the contract would be finalised before March 2012, these are the last few months to reconsider what will be a giant white elephant.

YES AND ORDER THE F 35 MISTER SHUKLA ?

Brahmos is limited to the Su 30. And only one can be carried, and only a few squadrons will be modified to carry it. So not an ideal solution that.

I think its a call for SCALP or Taurus.

I think even the fanboys on here would say that a handful of Su 30’s, probably of limited capability, with poorly trained pilots would struggle considering all air defence radar networks would have been taken out, and base infrastructure including runways probably destroyed. Thats against waves of allied fighters with full awacs coverage. I doubt the Libyians would have been allowed BVR missiles as part of any deal for fear they would accidently shoot down an airliner

The Russians were going to sell Su 35 to Libya after Rafale deal came to an impasse.

Would have made things interesting indeed.

A part of me wish Libya had some decent Air Assets, to really see how Good the Rafale and Typhoon are.

Su 30s or something like that.