wow good job mandrake. are those Su-24s also part of Kazakhstan’s? or are they Russian? I know Kazakhstan has it’s military integrated with Russia

Canada—Large region, plenty coasts and islands. Preferred type: Large to medium jets with better range. Ideal fighter type—Heavy. What it got: F-18s—medium fighter with short range. I don’t believe Canada has gotten an optimum mix.

Australia—Same like Canada. preferred type: Large to medium jets with better range. Ideal fighter type: Heavy. What it got: F-111s, which is perfect for it and F-18s, medium fighters albeit with shorter range, not too ideal.

S. Korea—Small heavily bordered country (N. Korea) but has coastlines and water zones to protect. Ideal fighter type: Medium to Large. What it got: F-5s and F-16s. What it wants to get: Medium to Heavy fighters, which is what the FX competition was all about where four medium to heavy fighter types competed.

By this logic Croabot, then why should large countries like India, US or China consider light fighters when obviously large fighters are ideal for the job.

Some examples:

Singapore is a country that seems to adopt a policy of larger numbers of smaller F-16s than smaller numbers of larger F-15s (although this may change mm kay)

Turkey has large and large numbers of smaller F-16s when it could instead have a smaller number of bigger F-15s.

it’s neighbor Malaysia seems to be going to the opposite direction smaller numbers of larger heavy planes like Super Hornet and Flankers

Israel has used the smaller F-16s to do strikes in other country (Osirak) instead of the F-15 (you can correct me if I am wrong on this one).

Vietnam in the long run looks like it wants to keep a smaller number of large Su-27/30s instead of looking for more newer smaller fighters.

not many countries can go for both big and small.. so if you had to choose one which would it be?