I think he is referring to US Thor PGM-17 missile

And the same goes for the Alenia website: nothing about a delivery to the RoAF…:confused:

Here some more pics of the Air Day at Otopeni were the C-27J was shown : http://romanian-spotters.forumer.ro/demonstratii-aeriene-2009-f41/baza-90-transport-aerian-gheorghe-banciulescu-19072009-ziua-portilor-deschise-t2367-25.htm

That;s because it was not accepted in service yet. It is a test plane and it belongs to Alenia and not RoAF.

BTW, speaking of corruption.. it has very broad legal terms. Recently Boeing offered free backseat rides to Danish decision makers on Super Hornet.. legally that is considered corruption since such a flight has a financial value.

Well same was done by SAAB also 🙂

Yawn… Who does not bribe today? :confused:

my god… Gripen bribed? :diablo: so much for the immaculate plane..

I believe it reduced to less than 30 as the Euro grew stronger.Also the work was going to be done by Eurocopter at Oxford…not in Romania so where did that change come from.

Well that is partially in offset accords when Romania bought those 2 frigates…
Ans also IAR is the only facility in Europe qualified to overhaul Puma’s

Depends on what you mean by “at the time”. For example the Magic II was integrated in 2003, Python III right from the start of the program (mid-90’s). Since the Lancer has an “open architecture” system, there is no problem to integrate AMRAAM, Derby, but there is:
a. no money and
b. no requirement

Bingo …

If you wage war on a regular basis, it gets cheaper to drop bombs from a LO aircraft.
If you seldom or never wage war, it gets cheaper to have a stock of stand-off missiles so you don’t have to hassle with SAM’s in the first place.
I also think its questionable to go within bombing range with double digit SAM’s with an F-35, you’d probably still need to still invest in a stock of stand-off missiles.

So basically you say … If you want a Airshow plane buy Grippen NG?

You guys should check actually cost of those Grippens at least in the Bids they lost… They are expensive…