But why weren’t Mig-29’s designed with wingtip launchers? The F-16 has them.

Why don’t all Mig-29’s have them?

Seriously, quit opening so many Serbian threads, we already have like 3.

That’s not true, in the 50’s the US subsidized Yugoslavia’s purchase of lots of F-86’s and F-84’s.

Just saw England play and MAN DO THEY SUCK!! They won 1-0 only because Paraguay scored on their own goal, it should be 0-0. If they suck this bad against a mediocre team, they will get massacred when they face a better team.

The former Yugoslavia had the third biggest shipbuilding industry in the world according to this: http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/yugoslavia/yugoslavia103.html

Some capability was lost when it broke up but a lot should still be intact.

The modernisation included:

1. IFF BAE Systems AN/APX-113
2. Rockwell Collins AN/ARC-120 digital radio
3. Rockwell Collins AN/ARN-147 VOR/ILS receiver
4. Rockwell Collins AN/ARN-154 digital TACAN receiver
5. MIL-STD-1553B
6. Russian Avionics MFI-54 Multi functional colour display
7. Russian Avionics PUS-29 control panel

That is therfore $5,8 Million per airplane,without new radar,weapons etc.

That costs 5.8 million dollars?! Just for some radios and transmitters and screens? You could buy equipment like that at radio shack for probably under a thousand dollars (not the exact same obviously but the same level of technology). Someone is making a killer profit somewhere…

For some reason, our Mig-29’s have always looked uglier to me than some other countries’ Mig-29’s. I can’t figure out why, maybe it’s the paint scheme or maybe they’re just not shined up nice or something.

A ship as big and heavily armed as the Kotor class frigate would probably cost 200 million dollars, if it was new. It carries SS-N-2C, SA-N-4, and SA-N-5 missiles. So I don’t think they will just leave them to Montenegro when Montenegro’s contribution to the defense budget has always been something like 5%. Same with the large submarines.