Ne mnogo 😉 Speaking becomes a little bit difficult, I hope to visit St. Petersburg next summer, just to counter that.
Reading is no problem, and understanding russians depends on the region they are coming from.

Edit: Interesting to see how many people learn Swedish. I always thought I do something special.

Well, if this is only a beauty contest, here my favourites:

sortet this way:
fighter 1 engine/fighter 2 engines/bomer 1/bomber 2/bomber 3+

biplanes: i don’t like them…

WW II:
british:
Seafire/Beaufighter/Fairey Barracuda/-/-
french:
-/-/-/LeO 451/-
german:
Me 109f&k/He-219/Fw-190F/HS 129/-
japanese:
J-7W/J1N/D4Y/-/G8N
us:
F-4 U/P-61/-/A-26/B-24
russian:
MiG-3/-/Il-2/Pe-2/-
best of the rest:
IAR-80/Fokker G1/-/-/-

50’s
F-86

60’s
F-100, F-108, XB-70, A-5, T-38

70’s
MiG-25, MiG-27, F-14

80’s
MiG-29, Su-25, Tu-26 (or before someone kills me, Tu-22M), Tu-160, Mirage 4000

90’s
Eurofighter, MiG 1.42/1.44, YF-23

00’s
J-10

What makes you believe those are Taliban ? I only see some persons. No indication for their political believes.
Even if one could see some AK’s I wouldn’t be very suprised. Every redneck and his grandma owns one in this lovely part of the world.
I by myself could not decide if this is a valid target or not by having a look on those pics.
And if they where Taliban, why not simply wait till the dead guy is burried, and then give the undertaker some follow on jobs ?

Well, I think for the future strike platform Dassault is in a great position. They got their partners, and they got the leadership. With Neuron they got everyting they where unable to get for the Rafale.

Please, nothing more about the Polish decision. It is bad for my wellness. 😉

Well, I read a little bit more about this whole Gripen N project. And the more I read, the more I like it.
A pair of NSM’s weights roughly 840kg. Even with a heay rack, it remains in a safe region.

Except the engine question, I’m nearly convinced this could work well. Now that I like it, I ask myself if this demonstrator I often read about is the same thing as Gripen N ? I mean there are some other things I remember. (NORA, IR-OTIS …)

So.. is it financed ? And is it more then a testbed for improved avionics ?

Well, those modifications are nice, but they mean more weight. The Gripen is already a bit underpowered.
Therefore, the bird would need more powerful engines. Everything except slightly uprated RM-12’s would mean a larger redesign of the airframe. If they really go for an F-414 modification, not only the intakes would need a revison.
Therefore I don’t believe in a cheap solution. Gripen is already not a cheap airplane.

Why do some people always have to drag this into a JSF vs Typhoon, Raptor vs Typhoon or Typhoon vs. Rafale debate ?
I think this should be a debate about potential threads (Iranian AF, Israeli AF ?)

The requirement was to get the best interceptor available today. No Raptor, no JSF.
That would leave in my opinion Typhoon (AMRAAM C), a F-15 variant (AMRAAM C), Rafale (MICA), a Flanker variant (R-77) and a Fulcrum variant (R-77).

For interoperability reasons with existing assets, one could argue about the degree of westernization of the Russian competitors, to fit in the existing AD-network.
Tech support issues and, very important in the arabic world, a good reputation.

The short version of my opinion:

The Russians out due to compatibility issues.

F-15 out because it is not shiny new.

Rafale to much multirole. (engine layout etc)

Typhoon the winner mostly due to the traditional relations between BAe Systems and the Kingdom.

The EJ-200’s that are used at the moment produce 92+ kN, not 90 as the examples in the first batch. Those 90 kN engines are only present in the very first Typhoon examples (the first batch of doubleseaters). Every singleseater produced got the stronger engines, and the later produced doubleseaters, too.
11.200/10.800 kg are the numbers I got in my books. I guess it depends on the definition of empty weight. For example if you include hyraulic fluids or not.