Pretty cool !!

thanks for the find..

Wishful thinking. I’ve seen credible people say things that are wrong by honest or typographical mistake. You don’t even know if this is just an editing error, typing 39,000 instead of 34,000.

And what about Irkut? Didn’t they actually MAKE the plane? What about Sukhoi? Didn’t they actually DESIGN the plane? Are they not credible sources to you?

It was there when I visited in 2002/2003 and even there the last time I saw it in 2004.

Visiting what ? Irkut plant ??

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Very nice birds, I have always liked them. Wish more countries would buy those as trainers.

Golden Dragon:

I dislike pi$$ing contests, that you appear to like, and do not participate in them as a rule. But would you say that I am flaming when I ask you to look at the following two pictures
http://www.strange-mecha.com/aircraft/Ente/lavi.jpg
and
http://www.airwar.ru/image/i/fighter/j10.jpg

😮 😮 😮

Holy smokes .. They do look similar.. Whats different between the two planes ??

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1.France
2.Germany
3.Turkey (much better army than anyone else there at the moment)
4.UK
5.Sweden

There was talk of the French selling the whole Mirage 2000 -5 production line to the Indians for $ 7 B . Does anyone think thats a good idea? However good an aircraft it maybe , the Mirage is at the end of it lifespan and there is only so much u can do with it. There are a range of newer generation aircraft being developed .

Its real bad idea.. if one needs techs, it makes sense to buy them separately and speed up LCA, i.e if there is need. No point in buying the airframe and paying dev costs for it.

Buy Radar/Engine/Counter-measure suite if needed.

Really no point in buying that old airframe.

something like these cued by UAV sensor imagery would be useful for patrolling the supply chain in places like iraq and af. lot of people have been felled by IEDs and regular old F-16s are probably too expensive and scarce to maintain a constant vigil?

Being so light and all, they probably cheap to fly as well.

It might make more sense to load these up with IR imager on one pylon and a SAR imagery pod on the other and provide constant COIN pictures in nasty situation with Wizzo playing Controller as well.

Only problem is that UAV’s will have longer loiter time than this.
But this might be able to strafe positions if provided with an internal gun as well.

It wasn’t the pilot who got burned, AFAIR, it was a tech testing it who got burns..