truong, the Flanker has the necessary range to get wherever Vietnam needs to get it to(Spartleys and other places) but remember the Mig-21 doesn’t have the range to do it, so replacing Mig-21 and Su-22s and other aircraft with FC-1 or even LCA would make sense.

I think LCA or FC-1 would be perfect to replace the hordes of Mig-21s, I mean there is nothing in Russia’s or Europe’s inventory thats cheap and light enough to replace the Mig-21s, this is where LCA and FC-1 come into play.

It all depends where Vietnam wants to play it’s cards, either India or China.

I swear I hate all these people who hate all these countries that bitch about all kinds of aircraft and their capabilities?

I would generally be curious to know why you even wrote that, but that would give you an excuse to ramble on more about who knows what?

lol, anyways I’ll tell you

Cry me a river?

We have no MiG-29s to upgrade so that does not even belong on the thread?

Just a point I was making, how many countries out there have all kinds of early factory planes that they never bother upgrading, prime examples are all the Mig-29 users pretty much

You?re one of those guys who really should not offer opinions on threads and just stick to asking questions. Had you asked a question and not made a statement ending with a question mark already having make an assumption it would not have looked so bad?You maybe should have asked if the VPAF is planning to upgrade the Flankers and not why they are not…

Vietnam does plan to upgrade the Su-27SK/UBKs to the Su-27SMK model and has on order already 4 Su-30MKs with a total plan for 24 Su-30MKs (similar to the Chinese model). So there is a plan to upgrade these planes and get more.

So other then showing a knack for very opinionatedly responding to topics with out knowing much you don?t offer much in the way of anything else?

To edit my last post before this one I am very sure VPAF Flankers could also make use of unguided free flight rockets as well?

It was a question, lol

I don’t see why it wouldn’t be better to upgrade the Su-27s to the SMK, I mean why buy a different plane for different missions when you can upgrade your existing one to do the same missions(now that was a statement).

The French have been going down a single engined light multirole fighter pretty much since MIII yet now they switch to a medium twin engined Rafale, I wonder why? If they stuck with a single engined smaller Rafale with less performance, I am sure Rafale would’ve had much better export orders.

It’s too expensive of a beast just like the Typhoon.

Erez, I PMed you.

Yes as it seems they will upgrade their Mig-21s either in Israel or India if my memory serves me right to serve for some more time until a different solution is found.

As for the Mig-29, I am not sure, for the numbers Vietnam needs them for, the Mig-29 even the M1/M2 are still a little too expensive to run so I don’t see a point in Mig-29/Su-27 combo.

If Vietnam does get friendlier with China in the future I think they may purchase something from them, if you look at them both China and Vietnam, they seem to be going down the same road in the future.

I too think that it would be better to develop better Anti-Shipping capabilities rather than heavily modernize their Navy which would be much more expensive.