Sauron

then by all means, let the US stop giving contracts to American companies and let other countries who have a comparative advantage win those contracts. me thinks that the Chinese for example would offer a cheaper price to rebuild all those power plants, rebuild all those pipes etc…

The Chinese have done the same in Iran!
India too was very active in business deals in Iraq pre war and had many contracts.

If I were the General, I would ask for Patriots and the like, its a defensive system while the F-16 is an offensive system, Pakistan needs a high alt SAM protecting Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Rawapindi against the future cruise missiles like the Bhramos land varient tha is being developped.

The problem with selling high tech weapons to Pakistan is obviously China, there have even been rumours about the Chinese getting a first hand look at the new Agostas, but then again t depends what F-16 we are talking about, if the US feels that an older blck F-16 should not help China too much, then why not sell for a few billion dollars, this is what Uncle Sam is aout at the end of the day, however this F-16 story does not seem to want to end, I cannot see why Pakistan would want it if they claim that the FC-1 is a comparable fighter, who would buy two light fighters?
Better go for a small batch of EF-2000s, say 30 and wait for the J-10 in the future.

Although the Saudi economy is not too good and poverty is on the rise, the millitary budget has not suffered, hence, although the Saudis are not the big spenders they used to be, they can still maintain their acs. Te millitary is the last to have fund cuts in most countries during an economic slump, Saudi Arabia is no exception, remember also the large amount of foreigners who maintain these acs as well, these guys have to be paid.

I think that this thread should be moved to the general discussion forum, let us pray that both sides stop seeing their children die

I admit, I flame by posting AFM paragraphs that is not even Indian, sorry, you on the other hand are a great poster who contributes to cricket threads on an aviation website, for the good of AFM and what it stands for, aviation! please leave us to talk about planes, come back when you fiure out what the Bison is….

I honestly don’t care much for your rating, if you even cnsider pLA as a normal poster, in any event I will add you to my ignore list, the webbie has given you warnings before not me 😀

You are too young to use such words as orgasming but yes, actually all I want is the AFm source, I am not orgasming, I simply posted the link and if you look at what I was saying in the other thread right after I posted it, u would notice that I was not believing it either when it came to the 3 shot down claims, however AFm is a good source and the PAF fAns of the world have none right now except for mythical PAf is equal to 10 IAF acs. blalablabab

As for the MiG-23MLD incident, that is why I posted this here, it happened in 88 and I do believe AFM has had enough time to confirm this kill claim!