Well. I think I understand it pretty good. Let us no even comment on boycot options or the strange fact that India designs engine but cannot test it. No wonder the testing lasts that long. Or the fact that more and more US engines re bought.

About Gripen. Read the magazine of this month. I am not allowed to copy it but since you have enough time to post BS I think you could go and buy one… It is that article about Saab. How hard is it for you to understand any logic?

I still see more troubles in selling SD10. The plane is just a transport method. Anyway. Good response 😉

US engine done deal for LCA means that Kaveri is still in Russia where the Russian engineers doing their best to mak something out of it. And it means that the US stopped FBW for LCA they just can stop spare parts for the engine. About F16. PAF has left that road. Read between the lines of last ACM interview in afm july 2004. OR do I have to say that I was not there to interview him? And about Gripen. How funny it was when India asked for 120 Gripens for replacing Mig23/27 just after Pakistan showed intrest for 60… Or do you guys do not read AFM mag?

About IAF flying F16… Most of the Indian planes are well known by PAF. Either China or arabs. I doubt any nation will sit and wait till they see them in actual combat.

As stated, LM will offer the F-16 to North Korea is they could, but its up top the US government and there is NO WAY the US government would allowed an F-16 sale. Funny, up until a couple of years back they did not even release engines for the “indigenous” LCA, how can you dream of F-16s!?

As usual there is much hype about US releasing top tech to India. Sofar not much eating of the pudding. Even if the US is willing to sell… The Indians know what it means. They felt the same as their counterparts (PAF) when suddenly no assistance was left for the LCA. Looking at the past one can not trust US source. If they need one they will smile. But if one does not comply with their needs then it can be over. As Mandela said… The US government plays with power.

Exposing fc1 is not the problem Pretty much sure that more high tech J10 will be offered to others. The problems is that China needs to compete with EF2000, Gripen. Rafale etc. Maybe they came a long way but this field is about getting further then others. I don’t think even J10 has passed those opponents. Why bother over the low tech part of that team?

ahum

Sameer,

I never said that guy (Saddam) was sane. But who is these days. Bush? To be honest. Freedom fighter or terrorist are time labels. I see no difference in state terrorism or crazy people.

Just look for the afghan massacre on bittorent. Maybe the killing of innocent in US is wrong but the same can be said about what US is doing in other places. It reminds be about something strange. One American guy told in that interview. He saw a few killed Americans soldiers on TV. He was furious. Then the next day he saw many more dead Afghanis. He saw children and women crying. It did not matter. Collateral. I nice easy word. See… That is what you get when you only believe one side. And I doubt there is one side that is only good.

And remember. I do not favour any of these groups. Never will.

The previous upgrade had fuel and oil leaks in and around the engines. IAI fixed the problems under warranty as was provided in the contract.

No big deal…

anyway. Intrestnig link:

http://www.demokritos.org/html/Axis_eng.htm

In February 1996, the Turkish Deputy Chief of Staff, Cevik Bir, secretly visited Israel and forged a military alliance with Shimon Peres. Unfortunately, instead of sounding the alarm, the Greeks failed to see that, in the “new” Middle East, the axis between Israel and Turkey is the most important political development in the region since the 1991 Gulf War. While the Greeks are building Holocaust memorials in Greece and restoring synagogues, Greek interests are trashed in the United States Congress by the unholy Turkish-Israeli collusion [1]. While the Greek Americans, are awarding medals and honors to prominent American Jews, the Israelis are modernizing the Turkish armed forces [2].