flex has shown many times before his Al-qaeda sympathising credentials, he hates western values and thinks anybody who kills an american is a hero.

hi mm2000 in the same video,Iraqi Falcon modrenized to carry Exocet missile and it used for long range in the gulf war against Iranian ships.

Looks like they just grafted the nose of a Mirage F1 on the front of it. Are you sure this isnt a radar and systems test bed that becouse of circumstances was used during the war.

Thats the sad thing, before 1991 Iraq had quite a number of very ingenious engineers which could work wonders with the right resources, its just a shame that they had such a murderous despotic thug for a leader and that he was replaced with an interim administration which made a catalogue of errors which can only be regarded as insane.

But Peru already has both types. I think he means it would be nice to upgrade them to a configuration with as much commonality as possible, instead of having zero commonality as at present.

Well if you realy wanted to down that route it would probably be best to talk to nicely to Israel, get the EL-2032 and Derby and Python-5. But dont be surprised if the development and procurement costs outway the limited commonality savings. Remember that you still have two different aircraft with different engines.

The RC-400 is intended for aircraft such as the Mirage F1/3/5/50, it is actually meant as a radar for small nosed aircraft. The cost of installing a foreign radar with all the wiring that would go with it would probably prove prohibitive. Also remember that although the EL2052 is undergoing flight tests it is still not ready for export.
Capability improvement is debatable, frankly it would be better to go for the Phazotron Zhuk-MFE which was recently undergoing flight tests on a Mig-29-these were partly funded by Mig. Or wait 18 months and see what comes of the Zhuk-A Aesa radar that Phazotron claims will be ready for flight tests at the end of this year or next.

If you want french weapons buy the Rafale, and if you want Israeli ask the American nicely for some second hand F-16A’s send them to Israel and give them the ACE upgrade, then in a few years time you can further upgrade them by replacing the 2032 antennae with the 2052 one.

As for a western radar firing Russian BVR’s, to the best of my knowledge it has never been done and if you have got an Israeli radar just use the Derby.

I agree Petros, though the Hawk has only a basic air-to-ground capability (bombs and rockets mostly, though the Maverick has been mentioned a few times), whereas the T/A-50 is really a lightweight fighter, and can carry a full (APG-67) radar, and BVR missiles giving good air-to-air capability, and has a robust air-to-ground capability. The M346 looks promising, and the weapons options seem quite good, including light anti ship missiles, though fitting of a radar would be troublesome.

As I understand it, and i hope somebody will correct me if i am wrong, the T-50 dosnt have the radar and BVR capability. That is reserved for the single seat F-50???

Infinite: I think you are probably thinking of the original Mig offer, which was the Mig-29M, which was pulled in favor of the Mig-35, which is just a renamed Mig-29OVT. Though they seem to change names every few years anyway…

Not Quite the case. The Mig-29OVT is realy just a demonstration model for the new engines and flight control system. The Mig-35 has an increased airframe life (6000 hours if i remember correctly) and a number of other airframe improvements possibly including reduced RCS. The Russian are also pushing heavily to get an AESA radar of Russian origin in it (The Zhuk-A appears to be the favoured design).
All the Mig-29 designations are actually very pravtical and realted to specific upgrades or design changes. The Mig-29M/M2 was a substantial upgrade of the basic fulcrum series, as i understand it it is impossible to upgrade a Mig-29A to M standard hence the SMT designations. The Mig-35 is a design improvement over the M model.

I would be interested to know whether the Mig offer includes two seaters such as the Mig-29M2 or or a UBT version or just single seaters.