Mirage…….

Flanker,
For PAF it is a big improvement. The mirages form the backbone of their strike fleet and they certainly can’t replace them overnight. The only other strike AC is A-5 fantan, which is generally accepted to be crap. Also they have been buying up all the mirage -3’s available from aussies, libya etc, so not all are in bad shape.

So did PAF obtain the mica’s? I seriously doubt it.

I seriously doubt that figure of 37 mil $ per plane. An aircraft like su-30 mki with french, israeli indian and russian tech in it eould atleast be 50 mil. 22 mil is what the LCA fly away price is supposed to be. I can’t see Su-30mki going for the same. Malaysia bought 18 su-30 mkm for 900 mil, tyhats roughly 50 mil per plane.

If space and numbers are constraining facts, like say on a carrier then I would prefer the rafale.

I doubt that the fly away cost of mig 29K will be 50 mil. Thats close to the fly away cost of su-30mki. 40 mil would be a better estimate. I dobt rafale would cost less than 75 mil for any buyer other than france.

How would HAwk200 compare with Yak 130, the new russian trainer. I remember reading that it could carry r-27 and r-77.