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Last i heard, BAE was pushing saudis to buy 50 typhoons in a deal worth over around $4.5, which also including upgrading their existing tornadoes. Wot comes of it, i guess would depend on internal saudi situation and oil prices as well as saudi-US relations in future.

Let’s hope thay it does happend just for the Tornado

If this is true, it would really be a mess because the other countries of consortium aren’t going to sit around while the British attempt to sell off theirs.

True, though they wouldn’t be able to do much

Germany and Italy are complaining even before this report. If everyone in the consortium is out to cost their losses what commitment to the plane is there?

The chances of Singapore, S Korea and Norway buying the planes are almost nil. Unless the terms are extremely good.

The EF would have to be sold off at a massive discount to make it worthwhile because Singapore is dependent on US security assurance and mostly buy US and Korea already has signed off on the F-15K with offsets being delivered to S Korean companies.

Norway is part of the JSF partnership in spite of recent grousing (and the EF would face a plane in the Gripen that costs only half as much if Norway did turn away from JSF.)

I really don’t know about the report. This is too extreme in view of the likely reactions from the UK’s EF partners and the low probability of (moneyed) buyers at any rate. There is absolutely no upside in declaring that Britain will attempt to sell its EFs.

I guess the Italian lease of the F-16 was a warning sign.

Uhh the Korean deal is done, why you mentioning it right now? I am not sure about Norway but if they do get to pick between the EF2000 and the Gripen I am sure the will go for the EF2000 just because it’s more capable and they could easily afford it. Gripen is much inferior to the F-35 and EF2000 is somewhere there.

I don’t think EF2000 will be scrapped, there is nothing much better to replace it, what will Germany replace all it’s F-4s and other jets with? What will Spain replace all it’s Hornets, F-5s and other jets with? Wha will…….

You see my point, too much is riding on this project. It would be way too stupid to cancel the plane now just because of a little glitch with the computers.

Why do they always bitch at the program for cost overruns and delays? AFAIR It was after the cold war their changing requirements that heavily delayed the program and thats where the cost overrruns came in. It took them forever to just set their own requirements then it took them forever to agree on them.

I highly doubt it
1)Costs way too much, unless all those are all second hand including the F-15s and Apaches.
2)It would take a while to set it up, at least 5 years, given the security in Iraq, the reconstruction and not to mention switching from Soviet/Russian equipment to American will not be so fast.

yes as it seemed it was unaffordable to France. How much did it cost though?

Yahh but look at Bulgaria’s budget. It’s true that the new NATO members have problems but look at the other members that have been in NATO for a while. I think Canada is not bad but they are getting worse and worse and the military is being depleted slowly by the ruling gov’ts and that includes the AF.

Fliegerrevue 11/98 P33 (scanned by Deino 😉

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