I too agree that the Gripen may be more suited to Romania’s needs..if the price is right that is..its upto Saab to screw it up by offering C/Ds or NGs at high prices and losing the deal like it did in Austria..

certainly the design shown in the model pic looks impressive..:)

You just dont get source analysis do you? I am amazed at how lost you are with this!:eek: The fact that you make such stupid comments as……

on the other hand, you are obviously one of those who will never quote any article from a respected journal..I hope you continue with that and dont post anything related to what a journal published. common sense indeed !:rolleyes:

……just goes to show how little understanding you have of this. Sure read the article, but then read others, compare and contrast. If only one article appears in one journal then be very cautious. You are trying to make this into absolutes, which it clearly is not.

man, go pedantic with someone else, maybe your kid or someone..”source analysis” ! :rolleyes: what BS ! you’ll only believe something if you read it in 2-3 different newspapers or journals is it ? your magnificient understanding of “source analysis” means that basically people concoct stuff and unless the news has been picked up by every other bloody magazine or journal on earth, its false. sometimes one has to give more credence to what a respected journal says as compared to BS that a whole bunch of lesser mags quote.

anyway, here you go, another source that says the same thing.

Australian Defence News

Washington and Canberra are buzzing with talk (and subsequent media reports) about Australian interest in purchasing a second tranche of F/A-18F ‘Super Hornet’ fighters, as a follow-on from the 6 March decision to acquire 24 aircraft under project Air 5349, for delivery from 2010. It is said the second batch of Fs is likely to also include at least six ‘G’-model (or ‘Growler’) electronic attack aircraft for delivery between 2012-2014. The follow-on ‘Super Hornet’ order appears principally structured as a ‘Kinnaird’ procurement reform option, in case of delays (or a cutting back) of the project Air 5376 (phase 3.2B/C) centre barrel replacement (CBR) programme currently being proposed for the F/A-18A/B ‘Hornet’ fighters, which due to local technical and cost issues, is likely to be wholly shifted to Canada.

Russia and India have closed the deal on the 5th gen fighter

Russia and India have closed a deal to jointly develop a fifth-generation fighter plane, a spokesman for the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation said today (18 Oct,2007).

“We have signed an agreement on cooperation in the development and production of an advanced multi-purpose fighter aircraft,” the spokesman said. “This document will allow our countries to implement a project that envisions equal-share financing and engineering efforts in the creation of a fifth-generation fighter.”

A two-day session of the Russian-Indian intergovernmental commission for military-technical cooperation, led by both countries’ defense ministers, began in Moscow on Wednesday.

looks remarkably similar to the DC-9 to me..

OMG!!! This is the most basic rule of source analysis!:eek: You question the reliability of every piece of information in every article! You dont just assume that becouse something is in a respected publication that it is true!:eek:

Anyway was it not AW&ST that published the PSed pictures of China’s supposed 5th gen fighter?

get some perspective man ! you’re comparing pics of some supposed 5th gen Chinese fighter published in AW&ST to them publishing an article that says that there is a real likelihood of a follow-on purchase of Rhinos by RAAF ?? maybe you might as well stop believing anything published in any journal, because once in a while, even the best get it wrong.

I would hope that this disappointment means that the DGA and Dassault put in their best efforts to get the Indian MRCA deal..they would need to be more flexible in ToT and offer a very competitive price which would surely be lower than the Typhoon..probably closer to the domestic price of the Rafale..around $75 million per unit maybe. and liberal access to all the software and avionics, so as to be able to match up to what Saab and MiG will definitely offer.

lovely article on IAF’s Air Marshal Prithi Singh (retd.). The man flew 102 types of aircraft in all, amassing 6500 hours in all..this article has some lovely pics of him evaluating different types for the IAF, including the Buccaneer, Mirage F1, Jaguar, Viggen, MiG-27, etc. as well as some very interesting remarks on the aircraft evaluated.

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