We’ll see, but i’d say zero credibility (reading the rest of the article).

Well, Argentina´s Air Force needs a fighter. Russia won´t sell it because Argentina don´t have hard cash to pay for new russian fighters.
Israel won´t sell Kfir either because of the relations with Iran(AMIA terrorist atack).
The same goes to US and France(I suspect the deal with Spain to buy Mirage F-1 didn´t go through because France refused to support the fleet).
Only China left. FAA don´t have other options. China also invested a lot in Argentina. This could be an oportunity to develop military ties with Argentina.

Syrian Mi-8 “bomber” in action.

But it very risk if you are hit.

So when you wrote that all the countries from which the USA has bought weapons are or were US allies, you were wrong, & when you wrote that Brazil is not a US ally, you were wrong.

I disagree. When the #$%* hits the fan US can always count with France, Sweden, UK and Germany. They are TRUE allies even if Sweden doesn´t admit it. Brazil is no longer considered an ally but only a trade partner.

The oppening of an embassy in Pyongyang was an ideological decision of the government because it is a support for an anti-american government.

Since I´m living in Brazil I can say for sure that Brazil will continue to have anti-american governments for a LONG time. The Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) will remain in power just like PRI did in Mexico and PT leadership is openly anti-american.

But enough of this talk. This is an Indian Air Force Thread. Lets not get off-topic too much.

The USA will not ‘always buy American’. It has a strong bias towards buying American, & sometimes buys second best as a result, but it does buy from abroad. Look at LCS, for example. Both versions have European main radars, & a Swedish main gun with Swedish ammunition. Remember the Harrier. The USA uses British-designed & partly British-built towed artillery (ordered by the Indian army last year), British trainers for the USN, the UH-72 is a Eurocopter EC-145, the USCG uses Airbus CN-235 patrol aircraft, Eurocopter Dauphin helicopters & Selex Seaspray 7500E radars, & had Dassault Falcons until last year, the US army has German-designed tank guns, which replaced British-designed guns, etc., etc. It’s a long list.

But all these countries are allies. Brazil isn´t and ally not even aligned.

The following video shows a M1 tank allegedly in the hands of Hezbollah.

Very interesting.

If HAL were a private company like Embraer should be amost certainly that HAL today would have not been manufacturing the Su 30 MKI and certainly would not be participating in a 5th Generation project as the T 50.

They just had to follow the brazilian example. The air force chooses the plane(Gripen) and Embraer(HAL) manufacture it as best it can. HAL should be an industrial branch of IAF like Embraer opted to be to FAB. When Mauricio Botelho was the president of Embraer he tried to force FAB to accept some of “its” products mainly at that time the Mirage 2000-5. Also a Emb-120 version to replace Emb-110 and the P-99 over the P-3 Orion. This created a lot of animosity amongst FAB high officers against Embraer because it was to the FAB to choose the aircrafts not Embraer. The current Embraer administration saw this as an error and tried do reaproach FAB with another attitude. It worked, KC-390 is the result of this new mentality.

MTA is in the news? We must be a couple of weeks away from AeroIndia 😀
I would just take the story by itar-trash with a pinch of salt.

That’s HAL’s cue to bring down and dust off the MTA model from the attic for the show. You know the model: The same one they’ve been showing for the last 10+ yrs.

Any tangible news on the MTA? Any part of the prototype made? Wing? Fuselage? A solitary rivet? This aircraft is like the Duke Nukem Forever of the aerospace world: AKA vaporware.

BTW, when Duke Nukem Forever did arrive, it was garbage 😀

Yes, this post is pretty abrasive but I’ve been reading about the MTA for, it feels like, two decades. Pardon me if I don’t take this project seriously. Apparently I’m not the only one: The Russians don’t seem to either :eagerness:

I disagree. MTA is nedeed in Russia. A while ago people were saying that Russia wouldn´t developing a 5th generation fighter because economic reasons but they did because they nedeed the aircraft, it´s the same situaton here. Lots of old transport aircraft in need of replacement in the near future not to mentiom export costumers. For how long Russia will be operating the An-26 safely? Not to long. I agree it´s taking forever for this aircraft to take shape but I don´t believe that when it does it´ll be garbage.