Like in… ?? They wont allow the grippen to india and not to pakistan or the other way around. Its more likely that the other party will “loose interest (to buy large numbers)” when the other desides to buy it (if approved by sweden). Sweden has made it clear that it more or less depends if pak/india make a peace kind of atmosphere. Pakistan and India both are evaluating that fighter.

Now coming back to the subs, indeed if india decides to buy them from france pakistan wont get them. Going for the Agosta 90B would be wise, as they already have the third one coming, more cost effective modern sub indeed.

Castor was taking about the european countries willingness to sell for cash upfront. That’s why I mentioned India will be favourite because it needs more in numbers than Pak.

But Seahawk; haven’t you learned from all the Gripen-to-India or Gripen-to-Pakistan threads that all western european countries will throw their export restrictions into the garbage bin when it comes to a customer who can cash up front. Big time. 🙂

Castor

True. But the number game favors usually India.

T-160 – for China -> no way – Backfire might be… :diablo:

Is any operational supercruise engine available apart from F-22 engine ?. If India changes its requirement to include supercruise what are the chances ?.

31 killed in Marine chopper crash

Very sad news. What kind of chopper could it be? MH-53?

Anything to do with insurgents ?.

Rafale deal looks like possibility. But is Rafale exist in ‘airforce’ version ?. As other posters mentioned, Can it be produced in numbers shortly ?.

If IAF is looking for Mig-29 MRCA or Mirage2k it is better to wait and look into the future.. may be PAK-FA or what ever fifth generation is. Also IAF should field some LCA’s along with GE engines.

Mig-29 == trouble in IAF terms.

Do we need another Balkan ?

This is not Balkan. Balkan is entirely different situation. I am not sure in what way u are comparing.

In Pak, leadership (Pres. Musharaf) is supporting US operations (Afganistan, Iraq) but most of the pak people (pak street ?) are against it. Leadership takes it now to one more level by supporting operations ??? against Iran. Eventhough all the parties involved are disagreeing with the report including Iran, US will not risk a full scale war with Iran .. atleast for the time being. So most of the operation will be of sabotage kind.

Remember Iran is not like Iraq. No dictatorship and still Iran have moderates who can take over in case of topple of Mullahs.

Pak Vs Iran => hostile neighbours – Getting interesting