do u have any links to the fact that taiwan admitted that the kuo is inferior

Yeah I’d be interested in reading that too, IIRC the only thing the RoCAF aren’t happy about with their F-CK-1’s is the fact that they are under powered due to the US supplying down rated engines!

As far as flight performance goes the Ching Kuo is as capable as the Falcon with slightly better G performances.

There are no MiG27 trainers. I guess the directory is referring to MiG23UB’s…

You’re right mate, how silly of me!
I do know one thing though, the SLAF isn’t happy about having all these different types in their inventory, they have wanted to consolidate their fleet for a long time now.

IIRC the government were the ones who called in the Indian’s not the LTTE, the tiger’s were on the receiving end of some kick butt action by the Indians (don’t blame me, just relaying what I read in the reports down here).

Personally I see the SLAF as a great potential customer for the Tejas, they could buy a few of them and that would help consolidate their fleet!

By the way does anyone know who trained them on the Migs and Kfirs. I am assuming on Kfrirs it was IDF?

Each country that the SLAF buy hardware from trains them;
Pucaras= Argentina
Migs= Ukraine
Herks= America
Kfirs= Israel

An interesting side note, many of the SLAF personel are multilingual as a result of having to spend time over seas training on their equipment!

IIRC that was a French one but the Israeli on was far superior and was fitted later on!

BTW, do I see the BUNDESGRENZSCHUTZ (German Frontier Guard) on the helicopter in the background? What could it be?

Looks like a puma mate! Question is where is it that the German boarder Guard and an Iraqi helo would meet like this, the logical answer is at the factory the German one looks new but the Iraqi one could have been there for Deep Level maintainence!

see it’s like I’ve been saying all along, the American’s will take all the money to makwe sure no one else is able to afford anything that will compete with their equipment. They are Gorillas when it comes to putting things their way.

I’d like to see what happens when everyone pulls out of the JSF, especially if no one paying for them is going to get the full spec planes other than the US! I don’t know about any other countries deals, but Australia’s deal in this has a clause for pulling out and getting money back!

Looks like a good excuse for me to dig out a few old pics of mine 😉

And without the help of us down here in Australia none of this would have been possible. Watching Cassini going through the rings was great I look forward to seeing more from it later!