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I don’t grasp your context here?

If Airbus gets even longer delays then Boeing with the 787, we will see how good Boeing did with the revolutionary 787.

Swiss competition: Rafale
Indian MRCA: F-18E
Brazil FX: Rafale
Libya Flanker and Rafale
Nederlands: F-35

there’s a lot more to it than simply fitting a LDP and A2A missiles..what materials was the F-4 made of ? metallic alloys and titanium mostly. the Tejas on the other hand has more composites than most of the currently flown 4th generation fighters. and what about the F-4’s FBW ? mechanical.
The Tejas has a quadruplex all digital FBW, 2 generations ahead of the F-4.

Who would have guessed this? However Tejas is currently not even a finally defined product. No engien, no radar, no final avionics set.

If you look at ti closely one will see that the denial of F-22 exports was primarily aimed at Israel and nobody else.At the time polticians did not care if other customers might be interested in the future. Today Australia and Japan could easily get the export licencse if the political will would be there, which is not. But not because the US does not trust them, but because they won´t finance F-35, if they buy F-22. Any F-22 export puts a dent into F-35 and the numbers needed to make it cheap enough. Althoug for countries like Australia a smaller number of F-22 + a force of legacy planes like F-18E/F makes more sense, then a complete F-35 fleet. Which msotly is a good afordable bomb truck.

Oh dear, my beloved F-4 just made it to 4.5 generation fighter. It has carried a Litening pod and fired AAMs as well and it even has a final and proven engine, no it has 2 of theose.

Money, During the cold war the UH-1D was enough to shuttle around personal and weapons behind in the rear, when the need changed they already had signed for NH90.

It is a very daring move to say that Mk.2 will be ready and up to other 4.5 Generation fighters by 2015-16 (which means Block F3 Rafale, Gripen NG and Tranche 3 Typhoons) when we do not even know which engine it will have.

Do you have a pic with 7 missiles. I thought it was capable of only 5.