actually, the gripen would probably be a much better choice, typhoon and rafale being way too expensive.

What’s funny is to hear you envision buying the F-35… so much for “economic” decision… anyway, it’s not on this forum that we will change that. today’s romanian leaders do whatever they can to please the US… if you like having 30 years old aircraft (not even updated), tehre are several countries that could have given similar stuff to you. The US don’t care giving them for nothing… they’re scrap metal today, anyway. What they do care is taht you come back later and pay stuff more than it’s worth.. and that’s where you’re going, like it or not

The (future) F 35 buy is a wish, not sure thing, depending on the economy recovery, and is ~ 2020. And, yes, it will still be less expensive than EF/Rafale.

The decision was a political one. It’s clear that the miltary relation with US is more important than with EU.
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Soo . . . according to you, we put money into an account for you, & you fail to spend it. Whose fault is that? There was and is ‘heavy financial help’. If Romania chooses not to use it . . . . well, there’s nothing we can do about that.

According to the EU commission, Romania is spending most of the very large sums it receives from the EU. Where it doesn’t reach the places it’s meant for, as with much of the agricultural aid, that’s usually due to it being stolen by corrupt Romanian officials & politicians. Yes, some isn’t being spent, & eventually reverts to the EU – but don’t blame the EU for that. And don’t blame the EU when your government can’t put together a plan for spending the money offered, or show that you’ve taken measures to prevent it being stolen, & it’s therefore withheld. You get organisational & financial aid for planning & anti-corruption measures, as well – but you have to accept it, & use it, or it ain’t any use.

Same (actually, a bit worse) for Bulgaria.

The fact is that right now Romania is a net contributor to EU budget.

BTW, when Romania purchased (without any competitive procedures) two crappy fregates from the world champion in bribing (aka BAE Systems), no one in EU protested. When EADS received a 650 mil Euro contract (of course, without bid) for securing the borders, the champions of fair trade in Bruxelles didn’t say a word. But when the villans Americans receive a contract, suddenly it’s the end of the world. I’m not pleased that for economic reasons the F 16 are second hand, but as a taxpayer, I would have been furious to know that some crappy Eurocanards were prefered to the future (new) F 16 and F 35. Live with that: no Eurocanard for Romania. 😀

PS: no problems between Romania and Bulgaria
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Alas, that story is practically impossible, Romania has even agreed to host ICBM interceptors as part of US defense shield against Russia, so …

Those interceptors are not against russia.
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The colonel clearly made some mistakes (Israeli radars on MiG 21, Tumansly engines on Flankers; he also said that F 15K has AESA and Israeli targeting pod and jammers).

Those aside, I think that Indian reaction was hysterical:

-He didn’t “thrashed” IAF; on the contrary he considers IAF as professional & disciplined;
-He clearly states that the Su 30 MKI is a better plane than the F 15 and F 16;
-He said that MiG 21 Bison is a potent threat.

Now, what really made the Indians crazy was the fact that MKIs were defetead in DACT. It’s not the end of the world, guys…
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considering these “performance claims”, I guess we’ll still be here arguing for years.. until some F-35’s finally come to their units and (some time later again) they start facing other aircraft.. then we’ll have a clearer picture of what they can or can’t do.

thing is, even LM’s aim was, they admitted, to match F-16’s performance, not get better.. and for a strike aircraft (which it is, even if some politicians/airforces believe they buy an “all rounder” ) it’s not bad.

The F 16 is not far from EF/Rafale/NG is terms of sustained maneuvrability and acceleration. The F 35 will combine the acc. ans sust. mmaneuvrability of the F 16 with a 55 deg. AoA capability.
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That should be “where most of the fights has take place.”

With the introduction of F-22 and other supercruisers, we see a shift towards supersonic fights, and will undoubtedly become hypersonic fights in another few decades.

Even the F 22 don’t supercruise for 3/4 of the mission duration.
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Does the F-22 ring a bell? :dev2:

Well, US can afford actions that Slovakia can’t…