F-18

Reliance on free market principles rather than centralized planning is a core belief of the republican party, and it’s something that sets the thinking of the guys who currently hold power in the U.S. So anyone in the U.S. has to deal with that reality no matter how purple a view of the world the person might have.

there are numerous numerous issues where they differ, not just economics my fast food friend. Republicans and Democrats aren’t exactly Libertarians and Socialists :rolleyes: now stop diverting from the main subject!

It is if done right. What we’d need to do is make some headway before we started using ANWR oil.

Getting rid of them entirely isn’t necessarily what I meant by that, what I’d like to see is SUVs made to comply with the same regulations as cars with regards to fuel consumption. That’d put a dent in our oil consumption, for sure.

Ah, but if we are able to write off the Middle East, then the next time a single terrorit act is committed against US persons, there’d be an easy response.

After travelling through the entire west coast of your country, I came to realize one thing.. you guys have bad city planning.. everything is too far from each other.. it’s understandable industrial areas are isolated, but I think some light commercial areas should be mixed in with the residential areas (like Japan). It’ll probably help traffic some as people can walk to get a bite to eat, and not need to use their cars to go somewhere close. And plus, make parking spaces difficult like in Europe, it encourages Americans to consider things like the mini cooper :dev2:

now as for the question, seeing as how the F-35 is a stealthy A-7 re-incarnation with AMRAAM capabilities, you’d need a real fighter or interceptor for the other aircraft.. how about the MiG-31? 😀

I mean did India not shop around for Western radar and BVR for such a superb plane? Or even started own big radar with help of western producers? You see… They will produce a lot in India (200?)! It is worth to think about that if Pak shops for just hundred Grifo’s.

The question is why? BVR missiles are not plug and play, they are not short range IR missiles which is much more easily adaptable to foreign radars. If it was possibly, alot of countries would’ve done it already. You switch to a western Radar, then what are you going to do with all the Soviet/Russian stuff designed for the Su-30MKI? It isn’t exactly cheap or practical to get it to carry western and eastern weapons.

I pretty much agree – except that the Su-39 you’re talking about (with BVR missiles etc) isn’t going to really see service in any air force. But it does mean that if you operate only FROGFOOTs you have a very broad range of potential upgrades. Seems to make just as much sense as putting AMRAAMs onto a Hawk.

Quite simple, if you only operate the Frogfoot in your air force, chances are, you’re too broke to operate anything INCLUDING the frogfoot, anyone remember Macedonia :dev2: . Air Forces that can afford to use the Frogfoot most likely already have some kind of fighter capable of BVRAAM, usually being the MiG-29.

Sukhoi does agree that the TVC is now overkill-tweaking of the FCS software enabled Su-37 711 to use standard AL-31Fs and achieve the same level of maneuverability that it had with TVC. Canards are another story-on the Su-27K/Su-33, the first canard-FLANKER to be series produced, they weren’t meant to improve agility but to improve low speed performance and assist at takeoff.

Somebody tell that to Malaysia before it’s too late :dev2:

F-18 hamburger..

Su-39 was an attempt to sell these capabilities to countries who can’t aim for higher capability/expensive jets..

and who’s buying it? No one except for Ethiopia who already has higher capacity/expensive jets. Ever heard of Flankers?

So PAF buying and upgrading second hand cheap mirages and building simple yet effective JF17 is not bad at all? 😉

and who’s talking about the PAF or Mirage :rolleyes: