The short answer to the original question is undoubtedly no.

AFAIK, there have less than 80 Il-96s of all marks produced, but over 300 A340-300s.

There is no doubt which aircraft has been more successful.

I do like the Il-96, though. Pity the Il-96M/Il-96T didn’t gain more international orders.

Nice pics.

BUT I wonder what the point of spending any money/effort on any camouflage scheme for Mig-29s when all an opponent needs to do is look for the trails of thick black smoke?

:confused:

Has Mexico ruled out non-US combat aircraft?

Very interesting reading.

The fact that Greece. a NATO member, has chosen Russian SAM systems says something about the state of Western land-based SAM systems, does it not?

The Russian military OEMs should be flattered.

FUTURE RAF Support aircraft

RAF tankers:

16-18 A330MRTT, but NOT by PFI – to be purchased outright

supplemented by:

8-12 Airbus A310-300 MRTT by conversion of 2nd hand aircraft, subject to availability

RAF transports:

30 A-400M
30 C-130J Hercules
10 C-17 Globemaster III
4-6 A321 for VIP transport, to replace BAe146s

RAF ISTAR

6 Rayheon Sentinel

RAF LRMP

cancellation of the Nimrod MRA4 programme

Buy/lease 12 EADS C-295 Persuader as an interim soultion

+/- develop new LRMP based on A321 airframe

RAF ELINT/SIGINT

3-4 Converted A300-600R or 767-300ER, subject to airframe availability

PS: Someof the funding for this can come from cancelling the NHSPfIT/CfH aka the NHS Database (cost £12billion) & the national ID card scheme (LSE estimated cost £10-£19 billion).

I was just wondering if ANY members of this forum are female? :confused:

(at least the modern military aviation forum)

I thought the B-52 was expected to outlive the B-1 by several years?

Pity they can’t reopen the B-1B production line 🙁 …..

….that would be coool 😀

If there was sufficient demand, do you think the F-20 could be resurrected (with 21st century updates, of course)?

The F-20 was seriously cool. 😀