SAMs can’t replace fighter jets. Otherwise every country would just replace its fighters with SAMs.

No one bought an S-400 so we don’t know how much it would cost. Based on S-300 sales to China, the latest version of the S-300 costs around $900 million but that’s probably because China has some kind of military agreement with Russia that reduced the cost.

10m Euros is what has been allocated so far, not necessarily the total cost. The total cost depends on the type of modernization, yet to be decided. For 10 m Euros, we get complete overhaul of the Migs, overhaul of a An-26, and minor modernization of the Migs (new communication, navigation, and IFF). If they decide to dish out more money then there will be a better modernization. There was also talk of acquiring more Migs but nothing has been decided.

Same thing… TJ knew in advance the guy wouldn’t know, and then he could make himself look smart and Serbs look stupid by correcting him. The question was intended to provoke in order to turn this into another Serb-bashing thread. Same thing in this thread.

TEEJ,
I think 27 L-18s survived the conflict in 1999 and I also think 8 B-2’s and a B-1 were shot down.

I’m hoping that it does come to war, just for my amusement. Does that make me a bad person?

Who cares what its western name is? Just call the damn thing by its Russian name and save yourselves a lot of confusion.