Yes, the T-22M3 sounds reasonable, plus maybe some avionics upgrades and such as the Tu-22M5 is sopposed to be getting plus some Chinese weapons integrated.

Don’t know the exact story behind this all, but it is well possible that without the Italian funds the Yak-130 / M-346 would never have been born at all.. As long as Yak gets its orders from RusAF and other potential customers, it is a win-win for both sides.

Mig-AT had no foreign funds yet it flew, lol. The M-346/Yak-130 is a Yak design, and even Aermacchi acknowledges this. What happend was that when they developed it together, Aermacchi chipped in a lot of money too and then said “they had different schedueles” and split off. it was a nice way of taking someone else’s product and slapping ur name on it.

Wow Korea is really developing their own industry, from Trainers, Fighters, Tanks, Helicopters and now SAMs, what else is on the list?

IMO there is no need to upgrade the Mig-21 except extend it’s service life so it can fly until 2010. We may need a BVR capability but looking at our possible future enemies, no matter how many BVR capable fighters we’ve got it still will never be able to stand up to NATO. Only Hungary and Greece in that area will have BVR capable fighters, but they are no threat. So no need for Mig-21-93’s BVR capability.

IMO I think the Mig-21 should only be kept for Air Policing and to give our pilots supersonic flight and such. Then in 2010 replace with whatever

I dont think we need Mig-21-93’s A2G capability, since the G-4M has the range and payload of the Mig-21. There have been rumors that the M upgrade is going on further to the M2 upgrade.

AFAIR Lasta 3 is going to enter production soon, it seems like a decent training plane, it’s very cheap to run, it’s not a turbo prop its a simple prop engine and a weak one too.

I dont mind joining EU somewhat for ONLY the economical advantages and such, but we really dont need NATO nor do they need us. The disadvantages of joining NATO are that we would have to bring all of our equipment to NATO standard, which most of it is not, and it’s expensive, the advantage however is that if anyone picks on us they got our back, but our problems will come in the future from Kosovo and Albania pretty much.

I think they will eventually keep the Mig-21s just to give our pilots some supersonic training and keep it there for Air Policing, nothing else. G-4Ms are going to be doing all the CAS/Interdiction work and such.

J-22s will probably be going out of service pretty fast too.

The Serbs, duh!!! You know, those people that started 4 wars in the balkans and killed hundreds of thousands of people…

It is unknown who started the Yugoslavian civil war, apperantly everyone blames themselves. The Albanians happend to **** up in Kosovo before we went in and kicked them out in 99, we didnt start anything. You guys should’ve been more peaceful.. Now you’re trying to start **** in Macedonia.

I think the Macedonians deserve what they are getting now, I like the Macedonians they are my Slavic brothers and very similar to us, and I have a lot of Macedonian friends here but they ****** up in 99, they decided to suck up to US and take in all of Kosovo’s Albanians, which happend to stay in Macedonia. I hope they get smarter and when we decide to kick them out, they should follow.