Damn it, it’s too late. I meant SFC, specific fuel consumtion…

Your state in your example that each country as their own weapons

The point was that there will be more weapons available. It doesn’t depend on who paid for the integration.

The rafale too if the US lift the embargo toward the rafale.

No. It doesn’t depend on any embargo. Singapore has this weapons already or will get them together with the JSF. But they are not integrated into the Rafale.
The British and the Italians will operate the JSF/Typhoon combo as well. Germany uses many U.S. made weapons.(Harm, Harpoon, etc.) How many are in the inventory of France ? The only U.S. weapons I heard of that are cleared so far for the Rafale are Paveway II & III.

That’s the only one ?
I fear that Koreans officers would disagree with you here.

What else ? That they already got the big external tanks ? That the CFT’s look much better ? That the MFD’s are a bit bigger ? Or that the images made by the OSF are in colour compared to the IR-images made by the pirate ? I personally like the M-88 a bit more than the EJ-200 because of it’s lower weight and lower RCS. But this is not substantial. I could start with 100 little things that are in favour for the Typhoon, but do these things a big difference ?

The problem of the Rafale is in my opinion, that the french were unable to find international partners. They tried to get the Netherlands, Danmark and (dont know exactly 😮 ), Norway and Belgium as partners. (All northern European F-16 users) But as you all know they prefered the JSF. Singapore maybe a chance, but I would rather go for Typhoon, since it will be aible to carry the same weapons as JSF. I would rate the chances in Saudi Arabia a bit higher. They seem to buy fighters for the amusement of the royal family, and the Rafale appeals to many as the sexier fighter.
Switzerland could be a possiblity and eventually Greece after the election.
Rafale has only one advantage over Typhoon, and that is the carrier variant. But who has carriers and won’t buy JSF or MiG-29K ? 🙁
Maybe Brasilia has the money for them in ten years.
After all, European aircraft companies can only hope for further delays and cost overruns of the JSF. (Or the dissatisfaction of partnernations) 😀

I think the price will come down a little bit, or at least not rise for tranche 2. EADS made some affords for more efficiency, that’s the new job of Aloysius Rauen. And a German government spokesman(don’t remember the name:( ) said, they would suspect some concessions from the industry, according to the bad household situation.

As to saying HINDs weren’t reliable, how do you know exactly?

After the reunification, all former NVA aircraft were tested and rated at the WTD-61. After this evaluation, the Mi-24 were handed over to Poland and Hungary. This caused some hot discussions in Germany, because the Hind scored much better than the Bo-105. The main argument against the Hind where the high maintenance costs and the low availability during it’s service for the NVA. This argument was requested, since the GDR bought 24 new Mi-24P, delivered 1989/90, and those with the bad maintenance record where the ‘old’ Mi-24D. So, many publications especially in magazines from eastern Germany, for example ‘Flieger Revue’.

I think the Apache is the best of the contemporary AH’s. It was impressive how many hits they survived in Iraq. Mi-28 and Ka-50/52 maybe even better, but what is known about their combat effectiveness under combat conditions ?

NVM I got it mixed up with the new An-70, oops, but anyways AN-70 is probably the BEST Medium Transport aircraft in the World currently, we’ll see how A400M will due.

Yep, would have been the better choice. And faster available. At 50 mn $ a damn nice peace of hardware.

What the hell do you want to transport with the An 124 ?
The whole Army of Kyrgyzstan at once ?
I don’t know how many large airstrips are in Kyrgyzstan. I assume there are not that many.
Austria, a country in similar size has only 3 Hercs. And the Austrian GDP is a bit higher than that of Kyrgyzstan. They considered even the Il-78 as too expansive. And the An 124 has much higher running costs. The price is not the problem, the UAE paid 40 mn $ for their An 124 -100.
The Mi-26 has an cargo compartment in equal dimensions to the Hercules, and it is able to land nearly everywhere. The maximum capacity is 20t internal or external.
Standart payload:
80+ Troops or
2x BRDM-2 scout cars, or 2x BMDs, or
1x BMP or,
1x BTR-60/70/80 or,
1x MT-LB
Price is believed to be between 10-12 mn $