But if the Argentines were making threats and such to UK regarding the Falklands and China still sold weapons to them, then I imagine China would remain completely silent when UK starts asking Taiwan if they would, perhaps, like some Typhoons and maybe a Type 45 or two.

Wishful thinking, the UK is not going to sell Typhoons or Daring Class destroyers to Taipei even if Beijing was willing to give J-11s for free and exchange the fuel for beef.

With further cuts in the horizon it’s a question of time that someone raises the issue of how much costs to maintaing “inhabited good for nothing” South Atlantic territories, starting with Antarctic bases.

In the end the issue is not islanders self determination but taxpayers determination to sustain Falklands if South American countries start hampering the economy of the islands.

If Argentinian government was really committed to rearm its armed forces they could secure the required loans selling the country’s resources, it’s not like they haven’t do it before.

A flotilla to harass Falklands/Malvinas on a budget only requires a handful of old fishing ships converted to ARA patrol ships for the price of lead-rich paint cans. Most insurance companies and shipowners can’t deal with the cost of shipping vessels stopped and searched multiple times and as long as ARA finds drugs or counterfeit goods in some of them no country is going to speak against it.

Any future option for the Venezuelan Air force depends on a single factor, when (not if) Chávez dies.

The last thing a polarized society like Venezuelan one needs is more turmoil.

Scrapping current Russian and Chinese deals for no reason is wishful thinking and a recipe for failure as western hardware is not to guaranteed only by rhetorics. And UN sanctions are to be expected if the country becomes a threat as it would be a no-win situation for all five Permanent Security Council members.

As it stands they can’t afford to acquire replacements and the Western manufacturers they would prefer will not risk extending credit to a nation at the centre of one of the largest defaults in banking history. The Argentine Airforce are apparently highly adverse to buying Chinese or Russian when it comes to fast jets.

Spare parts and credits depend on who is in La Casa Rosada, replace the Presidenta with a liberal or someone from the righ wing and magically all problems become solved.

Argentinian military sees itself as a western power so it’s completely normal that they only want western technology, also the brainwashing and racism has it’s share of blame when dealing with comunistas, rusos and chinos.

well to be honest it seem that russian inflate rcs of aircrafts from other countries to be equal to their own because RCS value need experiment to measure so it really hard to believe that russian know more about international aircraft than their own producer

Basically you are saying that Russians are lying to cover the embarrassment of their ever increasing RCS planes because they can’t measure RCS effectively, right? :rolleyes:.

A new market for cooled and encapsulated munitions appears in the horizon.

Defence-spending is related to a realistic threat. Brasil has no real threat from its neighbors for several years and by that it is just in need for some fighters for the air-police duty at first. Even a SH or Rafale are an “overkill” for that purpose by cold logic.

By that logic, and cost overruns aside, how F-35 has come to see the light of day?

More often than not defense spending is a thing of status, if Brazil wants to be recognized as a first rate international political player it is going to need a modern air force even if it is only to show-off when outsiders decide to show-off in the neighborhood.