Bigger is better! if you have the space and the money, everyone goes big.. Big cars, Big SUVs, Big Trucks, girls with big ****, or for girls..guys with big ****, big hamburgers, big meatballs, and in this case.. Big fighters.. especially in the air-dominance role, but less so in the ground attack.
You look at examples in the world, Israel with it’s F-15s completely dominated the Syrians, or the USN with their F-14s with the 91 gulf war, and the Afghanistan scenario. Or even in Ethiopia vs Eritrea.. during such emergency times, bigger is better.
Which is why the Su-30 series looks attractive for many nations since it costs around the same price as the Gripen and certain F-16 models per unit. What I can’t understand is why the lovely UAE people chose the F-16 platform over the F-15 for their long range strike requirements 😡 the F-15E already has CFTs tested on it for a long time and more hardpoints to carry weapons with as well as more power vs trying to fatten up a chicken mcnugget of a fighter (the F-16) into a Big Mac with less hard points and a compromise on it’s structural design and performance to get it to fly far. 😡 😡 😡
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