The you have a big problem if you use the Mi-6 to insert Commandos .. problem with your head 😀

Plus we would have train all of your technians to maitain all the aircraft and repair them beacuse it would be a western aircraft and Russian Technolgy is still very good plus the parts for the planes like Migs are a lot cheaper and you can also buy a liscense and produce some of the parts locally.

You cannot be far from the truth… Russian spare parts are quite rare , and unless Russia Owe your country money , you won’t get a steady supply of parts.

You forgot the thing the Argentina’s bombs most where duds. The fusing was not adapted to low delivery techniques used.

but romenia was in a better postion and you retired 8 years ago and we were all recoviring all of civil war plus i also read that the j-22 only got an underpowered beacuse we were doing this joint and you guys were in the warsaw pact and we couldnt get a supersonic engine so we just had to get the one just under below but the j-22 without any weapons on can reach supersonic speed.

Regarding engine is not that we have to be blamed …after all the Afterburner engines design emerged from Turbomecanica :p :diablo:

it can reach supersonic in a dive only.

Flogger….to make things clear to you…Syria ADMITTS to about 80% of those losses Israel claims to have shot down. They ADMITT to them. From what I’v read…they admit to about 57-60 or so fixed-wing aircraft losse sand several helicopters. So…if the Syrians ADMITT to most of these losses….and they correspond pretty well with Israeli claims…then HOW can you say there’s “NO EVIDENCE” because there’s no pictures of all these wrecks?? Because YOU haven’t seen the pictures of the wrecks??

You forgote one thing though. Syria admitede that at least 15-20 where shot down by their own Airdefence.

You hit the nail here flex 🙂

F-16 matured to similar multirole capabilities as MiG-29 but started from a different end (albeit came always two or three years sooner than the corresponding MiG, I admit that).

Early F-16s already had PGM capability (LGBs, Mavericks) and lacked any kind of BVR, MiG had BVR from the very start but lacked any serious A-G modes. After that F-16 came with ADF version which was fully comparable to early MiG-29 in A-A plus advantage of A-G. Then F-16C Block 30 and MiG-29M came. These would be pretty similar, me thinks.. AIM-120A vs R-77, AGM-65 vs Kh-25, Paveway II vs KAB-500/1500R/L, slotted APG-68 vs N-010, we can put these on par.

MiG-29M removed teeth problems of the vanilla model, pretty much eliminated range shortage, pulled out the old N019EA radar and even mastered carrierborne version and capability to use rough airfields, as well as added antiship missiles (Kh-35, Kh-31).. RD-33Ks still had roughly a half of service life compared to PWs and GEs, but that would have been eliminated by cheap unit prices – a feature that becomes a big advantage in war and does not disturb that much during peacetime. N010 was surely twice as heavy as APG-88 but it worked and overall maneuvrability was not affected. Together with integrated HMS and KOLS I see the M platform a bit better than Block 30 series.

Then MiG was stopped due to anyone in Soviet Union having much bigger troubles than care of fighter aircraft. Block 40 and 50 were issued. Even if these do not constitute a major leap in capabilities, they still added SEAD, HMS, JDAM, AIM-120C, color LCDs, wide angle HUD, new fairings with ECM, digital RWR, CFTs and other stuff. MiG has not provided anything new for ten years and only caught on later with MiG-29SMT-2 or M2.

Now F-16 is in the lead with Block 60. MiG will be answering with Ks for India. All in all I think Russians managed to pass thru this difficult era better than we have initially expected. Yes, they don’t have 5th gen or AESA ready but with their limited budget that is no wonder. Now, despite Su-30 series selling like hot cakes MiG managed to sell out the old stocks, has found three contracts (Yemen, Algeria, India) for newbuilds and made its place in the new PAK-FA project, I think they will get over the difficulties somehow.

it was during RoIAS 2001…

No is not that.. Gripen was tested and presented from 2000. That was the opinion of the Pilots. They liked more the offensive capabilities of F-16’s.
Anyway almost all pilots favoured somethin’ american .

But we shall see.