I would agree with this point if the delays did not bring with them such a large cost increase

Firstly if I was to be picky Israel has only been around for about 70 year 90% of Tec was transferred from others

Just as the Mig-15 was powered by a copy of the British Nene engine the American P80-F84 and F-86 were powered by copies of the British Sapphire engine and in both the Mig-15 and the F86 the airframes came from German Tec after the war

*The Bell X-1 the first aircraft to brake the sound barrier After the*rocket plane*ran into*compressibility*problems in 1947, it was modified with a variable-incidence*tailplane*thanks to the British who in an agreement with the US government (to develop a joint supersonic fighter) handed over the*all-moving tail*developed for the*Miles M.52*and associated turbojet data to Bell and used in transonic flight on the X-1, allowing it to pass through the sound barrier safely, unfortunately the USA subsequently reneged on the agreement.

Lets also not forget that America – Russia – China -India and Europe would not be what they are toady without a little thing called the Railway oh by the way a British design

And I can go on and on and on about the British Empire and the good and bad points of it but here and now is not the place

As I have said before Argentina lost the best chance they had in 82 by just extending the runway at Stanley to take the Mirage 3’s and Etendard’s it would have forced the British fleet to fight closer to the threat and they might of got a carrier

When you look at Argentina’s Military aviation all three services are flying too many different types and all do the same things like transport and Training they really need to make some simple changes that will save money and improve training and Tasking like

All basic flying training to be carried out at one school for all three services on one Type

Fast Jet Air force and Navy to train at the same school on Tucano and Pampa

All helicopter pilots to train at one school on the MD500 and bell 212 twin Huey

All multi-engine training to be carried out on the Twin Otters as they already have 10 of them

All fix wing transport to be carried out by the Air force with the exception of 5 C-212’s for the Army buy 8 C-295M’s for the air force and retire the F27 & F28 fleets

All transport helicopters to be operated by the Army 20 Huey 2’s and 15 Mil-17’s with the ramp plus two Helicopters for VIP work

All maritime patrol and SAR to be carried out by the Navy buy 18 Bell 412 for SAR role to be operated in 6 flights of 2 aircraft also add 4 C-295 MPA’s

Move all Learjet’s and Citations to the Air Force for VIP work

Find and order 2 two seat Skyhawks fitted to Fightinghawk speck transfer 10 Fightinghawks to the Navy to work along side Brazilian Navy Skyhawks on the Brazilian carrier

Buy the 18 Mirage F-1’s from Jordan upgrade them to MF2000 speck plus buy the 10 best F-1CR’s from for the recon strike role. I know they have tuned down F-1 in the past but I still think F-1 MF2000 is there best option at this time

So it would end up looking like this

Tri service Basic flying School operating 25 aircraft and shearing a base with the Tri service Helicopter training school operating 12 MD 500’s and 8 Bell 212’s for pilot and rear crew training

Tri service multi-engine training school operating 10 Twin Otters and the Airforce and Navy fast jet school operating form the same base operating 25 Tucano’s and 35 Pampa’s

The Airforce would operate

28 Mirage F-1’s
16 Fighting hawks
6 C130’s to be replaced by KC-390’s
8 C-295M
4 Learjets and 2 Citation’s
30 Pucara’s

Navy

12 Fightinghawks
4 P-3 Orion’s
4 C295 MPA’s
3 S-2 Tracker ‘s
6 super king airs
4 Seakings and 4 AS555’s
18 Bell 412’s for SAR

Army

5 C212’s
20 OV-1 Mohawks
20 Huey 2’s
15 Mil-17’s
20 Bell 206’s
20 Z-11’s

All other types would be withdrawn from service

as you can see the needs of the Argentinian Air Arm’s has been looked at and buy moving airframes around and adding some new types they could come up to speed quite quickly say 5 to 8 years

Also pick your own fighter type I just feel right here and now Mirage F-1M will give them a good type in region for local air defence and a good place to move on from

In the 80’s the Pakistan air force F-16’s shot down a few Mig-23’s but did their Mirage 3’s ever engage Mig-23’s on that border

The world control to 1/4 earth cannot be applied to British empire. Control mean you fundamentally change some thing under control. see the legacy of failed islamic states that British ruled. India forged alliance with Soviet Union. Australia went into American lap. HK delivered to China.
Above all there is no money (Olympic facilities need Qatar funding) or scientific heft left in Britain despite fully adopting multiculturalism.

Soviet Union different kind of empire. Russia still command still great deal of influence in that space and is center of all scientific base of Soviet Union.
see this example. let Britain command such power.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/asia/article3607261.ece

So this is completely off topic but needs saying and some points need making and then we can put this to bed hopefully

(Control mean you fundamentally change some thing under control)

Firstly what you are trying to tell me is that none of the countries you have mentioned were shaped and change mostly for the better by the British Empire if so you need to go away for a long time and read world history

Russia has become a world leader in fighter design but its first real jet fighter was powered by a straight copy of the British Nene engine and lets be straight about history both Russia and the British Empire have had many a common fight that has seen there making Russia nearly fell to Napoleon but he could not bring his full force to the fight as he was also fighting the British and the same could be said about the First and Second World Wars this said it also works the opposite way round

As for Australia I have a lot of friend and family who live there but in its modern form it was born and shaped by the British Empire

And Thobbes you are right the Queen is only symbolic but she symbolic and as time goes on I see that Australia will drop the British monarch

And to say the British have no scientific base is simply wrong the Typhoon is one of the best fighter out there now the Type 45 is one of the most powerful fighting ships in the world we are heavily involved in the F-35 program

The British Empire can hardy be called a failed superpower at its height it controlled a ¼ of the earths land mass and held sway over one fifth of the worlds population and was the foremost global power for over a century and the biggest Empire in history given all that I think all other upstarts have got some big shoes to fill

I think it depends on what life the current Mig-29’s have left if there is life left to carry out an upgrade to SMT standard then possibly this is the way forward pick the 15 best airframes and rotate them through the upgrade program at the same time buy 20 Mig-35’s once the first 8 29’s are back from upgrade retire the older 29’s also start to look at JF-17 as a replacement for the SU-25 fleet with a view to getting 40 airframes last of all replace the L-39 fleet with 25 Yak-130’s this should give them a more flexible air defence and ground attack capability

I still think they need to get a tactical airlift type An-32 or C-295 possibly C-295 as they already operate 3 HC-144’s

Also as said T-129’s to replace Mil-24/35’s