All Cargo if you can 🙂

Offcourse no body knows the combat radius of Su-35 in strike role when it if fully loaded.

Of course it will be more than the F-16, the Su-35 is simply bigger, carries more thrust and much more internal fuel than aircraft using both internal and external fuel, duh duh duh. lay of the crack pipe and get out of the thread if you’re going to be anti-Russian. There’s only room for one of those and it’s going to be me! 😀

Whoever gave you the impression I like the M2K?

Oh I dunno, maybe

This is a hard choice. I would normally favor the M2000 because I know more about it and it’s quite a proven craft. Being bigger and more powerful has its advantages, and the Mirage 2000 is also a plane with a sturdy airframe and wings that could guarantee a long life.

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?p=28010&highlight=Mirage#post28010

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Just straight off the shelf, I would pick the Mirage 2000, preferably the -5 Mk2. There is something more about this plane than just paper specs—it extrudes proven quality, low cost of ownership, and high operability. Other than the F-16, all the other planes still seem like an experiment to me. If I ‘m not the gambling kind, I would go Dassault.

http://www.acig.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1926&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=mirage&start=45

among some 😉

You can say the same about the small F-16.

The Gripen is very cheap

Very cheap based on what my hairy ice cream eating buddy. Go look at the South African deal, and what Saab/BAe offered the Austrians, it sure ain’t cheap!!! If I wanted a horde of small leg less light fighters I will shamefully say that the FC-1 may be the better choice! Hell the LCA and Golden Schmeagol too! At least the F-16 can carry more than these jets and carry it farther, and definitely, is cheaper than the Gripen (unless you want a block 60) 😀

I got no problem with the F-16. But if I try to get a light fighter, then I choose the Gripen. (Better STOL capabilities, easier maintainance even under poor conditions…).

Sure (remember it’s Sure not Shure) the Gripen is nice if your country is the size of Switzerland, has barely any hostile air threats, friendly with western nations and the money. Other wise you need alot of bases to get that leg-less Gripen anywhere, not to mention Swedish export policies and the fact that it’s much more costlier than other fighters of it’s class and costlier than some versions of new F-16s! 😮 and people thought i was crazy.. 😀

I think aircraft like the M2K is better than the F-16. Sure the F-16 has better A2G weapons(both Mig-29SMT/M & latest M2Ks lack JDAM type weapon), though the M2K-5 which is very well comperable to F-16blk50 has similar price and capabilities, it’s biggest advantage lies over it’s politics where the M2K really has no political strings attached. I don’t think the export M2Ks are downgraded either and the French are willing to sell anything to anyone as long as they got the money, where the Americans are really reluctant to give away weapons like JDAM, JSOW and especially the JDAM.

So really, for me it’s a comperison of the latest and best M2Ks & Mig-29s. Here the Mig-29 for me is a much better AA machine, is cheaper(in the longer run too), here there are especially no political strings attached and of course I Just like the better selection of Mig-29M/SMT’s weapons(France has nothing to match Yakhont-M AshM and ASM as well as weapons like R-37M which can be integrated on customer’s request)

No political strings? not quite.. You buy French, the French (or Dassault) will squeeze you out of your money, just ask the Peruvians. Every little thing that breaks has to be sent back to France, and often the French offer little lee-way on local repairs, etc. Further more French parts are expensive, the aircraft, the electronics, and the weapons. If you ask me, the risk coming from buying French is equal to that of the Americans, perhaps thats why you see those who use French aircraft tend to also have an American or Russian equivelant. Perhaps to play both sides safe mate.

the MiG-29M? I’ve doubtful that an aircraft that was incredibly low on gas could add THAT much more to fix it’s problems. Two engines cost more to operate and suck more gas than a single engined aircraft. Not only that my sexy friend, it hasn’t spent as much time integrating it’s weapons and avionics as either the Super F-16 or the Flying Taco, the Mirage 2K.