You do realize that most of the weapons inovations came from US?

One thing is Il-78 are not actually tankers.. more like flexible tankers ..they use 3 UPAZ Sakhalin pods as refueling points..

You guys forgot a basic principle here due to imbecil politicians.
Si vis pacem, para belum – If you want pease , prepare for war. One of the oldest military principle.

Because of the numbers. We didn’t had many 29’s. we had 20 Mig29A. 2 where damaged beyond repair. We received on 29C from Moldova. But main issue was that type was not common in our bases( only one operated the 29 -Mihail Kogalniceanu base), there where not enough spare parts, supply chain was let say problematic, maintenance was to be done abroad. So it was a NO go, but also Lancer update was in progress at the moment Sniper proto was tested.

We didn’t aquired any kind of BVR weapon. Not that is not possible to integrate them into the Lancer C (in theory it could cary what ever weapon Israel envisioned for Lavi’s). We just didn’t bought them. We had instead Matra Magic2 and Python 3, and that’s it.

Bison was a paper thing back then. Not that is way better now. 21Bison just have the R-77 in usage, and that is it.

No. The Lancer isn’t a good comparison. The planes were already old & well-used, & what was being taken out was obsolete.

the ones that where subjected to Lancer updates where the planes with low flight hours… They where somewhere at 20% of their airframe time.. Last aquistion of Ceausescu , then the fuel consumption was “saved” bassically grounding the planes.

And press , Israel provided the electronics kits only. The whole thing was done by romanians from Aerostar.

Well the ..SAAB still ownes them until then don’t they 🙂

Well I wouldn’t consider the Hun and Cz Grippen a sell. They are leased. The are actually sweedish own plane, sweedish maintained and still register as sweedish airforce planes .

The russian had also different types of bombs
Lets take the FAB serie.
M-54 is what apper a draggier that US counterpart.
M-62 is low drag version.