The third one is a photoshop – the mid mounted wing F-5.
The first one is the indigenous Tazarve trainer, the second ones are Saeqeh – F-5s modified with two tails.

PAF Mirage IIIs with Turkish Airforce F-16, not sure where or when. Courtesy of Gokhan at Pakistani Defence.com

Bright Star 2009, last October in Egypt

MiG-29A (9-12) for Bangladesh Air Force without markings. Since overhaul or new ? :confused:

Freshly overhauled, not new.
MiG-29A are not in production since the early 90’s and they weren’t built in the Ukraine any way.
Lviv is also the place where Kazahstan recently overhauled their Fulcrums too.

T-50 has everything going for it. It’s partly designed and already partly built in the USA and uses a well known American engine.The fact that it can have an internal gun (as opposed to none on the M-346) is a major selling point for a light attack version.

True, M-346’s twin engines mean more safety, but also more cost and time in maintenance over time.

The Hawk, apart from being obsolete as airframe and engine design, would also give too much overlap in capabilities with the T-6 Texan II at the lower end and would fall short at the top end of the performance envelope compared to the other two potential contenders.

As for building a brand new aircraft, the Pentagon should be running away from such a project, seeing how much have gone overbudget and behind schedule all US aircraft acquisition programs which didn’t rely on an off the shelf or evolutionary solution.

googler – thanks a heap. But I thought that some F-7s were acquired in the early 1990s. I was not aware of any recent procurements. Is there a source for that ?

That was commonly thought before, but as I explained there was no trace of F-7s in Tanzania until last year. Photos of their aircraft are rare, but still all types surfaced, except for F-7s. Plenty of people confused the MiG-21s stored in Mwanza as Chinese.

Apart from the AFM report, there’s also this:
http://africanbushpilot.blogspot.com/2009/08/tanzanias-air-force-might-on-display.html
confirming first delivery of F-7 in mid 2009
and this:
http://www.fliegerrevue.de/fr_extra.asp?PG=189&AID=22686
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Botswana AF CF-116A OJ-6
http://www.aircraftslides.com/Auction/AuctionDetail.aspx?ID=649236
Paraquay AF EMB-312 1053
http://www.aircraftslides.com/Auction/AuctionDetail.aspx?ID=649235
Qatar AF Whirlwind QA-1
http://www.aircraftslides.com/Auction/AuctionDetail.aspx?ID=649245
SU-BLA BEECH 1900 EGYPTIAN AF
http://www.aircraftslides.com/Auction/AuctionDetail.aspx?ID=649422

Has the Hawk 127 been cleared for carrying AAMs? Or a gun pod like the British Hawk T.1A has? I assume the SAAF does not have a stock of Sidewinders lying around.

Without some armament capability they would be pretty useless in the air policing role would they not?

SAAF has the Hawk Mk120, 127 is the Australian version.
And according to this:
http://www.saairforce.co.za/the-airforce/aircraft/40/hawk-mk-120
it it capable to carry the 30 mm Aden gun pod, but no AAMs.
Still good enough for guarding stadiums 😉

Here’s a Vietnamese one in the Hanoi museum:
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/Museums/VietnameseAirForce/Helicopters/index.html
plus one grainy, partial shot of it in service, and an Indonesian museum piece

MiG-29 Sniper
Upgrade attempt for Romanian Air Force, by Israeli firms. First flight occurred on 5 May 2000. The program was halted along with the retiring of Romanian MiG-29s in 2003. The latter occurred because of high maintenance costs, which led to the Romanian Government’s decision to halt the MiG-29 program and further invest in the MiG-21 LanceR program.

Would have been interesting to see if this program had have been completed, a Mig-29 with the latest Israeli upgrades might have been a hard plane to beat

Well, the Sniper upgrade was not as comprehensive as the LanceR upgrade, in fact it was quite limited. Crucially, the radar and weapon systems remained the same, Soviet “A” export standard.

This upgrade only brought a new glass cockpit, HUD, nav-com, computers, MIL-1553 data bus, IFF and some other minor changes. No structural upgrades, no airframe or engine life extension, not even wing fuel tanks as for the German or – more recently – Slovak Fulcrums.