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Eurofighter
Austria 15
Saudi 72
Oman 12

Total: 96

Rafale
Egypt 24
India 36
Qatar 24

Total: 84

Gripen
Brazil 36
Czech 14
Hungary 14
Safrica 26
Thai 18

Total: 108

so how many of these however, are scavenged from domestic stock.

well since we’re at it

23 Russian paratroopers killed in barracks collapse
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33503364

Here is an interesting comment by “Yak” on Aviationist:

http://theaviationist.com/2015/06/18/pak-air-force-jf-17-at-pas-2015/

remember, he said

low-budget air force which wants a basic 4-gen aircraft

A pretty significant development in the PRC’s engine program.

The medium trust ws-13 is coming out of the shadows soon? This would power the J-31 as well as the JF-17.

http://www.janes.com/article/52308/paris-air-show-2015-jf-17-fighter-flying-with-indigenous-chinese-turbofan

Paris Air Show 2015: JF-17 fighter flying with indigenous Chinese turbofan

Richard D Fisher Jr, Paris – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly
15 June 2015
Key Points
Chinese officials at the Paris Air Show have said flight-testing of a new indigenous engine for the JF-17 Thunder is under way
Officials also confirmed that the Sino-Pakistani-developed aircraft had achieved its first international sale, although they did not disclose the customer
A senior Chinese aviation official has revealed that the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation FC-1/JF-17 fighter co-developed with Pakistan has been test-flown with a new Chinese medium-thrust turbofan engine.

Li Yuhai, an executive vice president with the Aviation Industries Corporation of China (AVIC), told IHS Jane’s at the Paris Airshow that a new Chinese turbofan for the J-17 has been “under testing,” has completed “lab tests”, and that “flight testing is in progress”.

great, guess it’ll be ready in 2025

LOL, but there were proposals that Turkey is to undertake Greeces 1.6bil € debt or provide zero interest loan should Greeks accept, in the hopes of “earning the friendship of Greek people and turn the Aegean Sea into a sea of peace”. Since the offer is made by Kurdish People’s party, I would assume it is sincere, but if we look at the past few incidents, Greeks are simply too proud to accept any help from us.

I thought you were Greek this whole time.

It would be interesting if Greece was willing to sell some of their military hardware for cash. F-16s, M-2000s, frigates, submarines, C-130s / C-27s… S-300? Lots of stuff that countries could be interested in, for the right price.

right! potentially lots of great deals! maybe in Latin America or Indonesia!

don’t worry about Bangladesh though, lots of cheap multi role J-8s and JF-17s coming their way! who needs falcons or mirages when you have the light sabre for the third world?

Careful there, what F5E are we talking about? A Chilean or Brasilian F5E are a very diferent proposition of a “South Vietnamese” airframe. The first time that a Adla Mirage 2000 crossed paths with a Chilean Tiger the result was not the expected one, cumpliments of the Elbit HMD and the Python 4 (this particular episode, if anyone is interested was in the late nineties, when Dassault tried to sell the Mirage 2000 to the Fach; the first time that the aircraft was flown to Chile, a two seater was flown against a recently upgraded F-5E III, the Dash HMD carried the day, this was described by Air International circa 1998).

oh yes, I totally forgot about the Chilean F-5.. such a thorough and formidable upgrade. it should literally tear any J-7 variant to pieces no matter how many times they deform the wing.

greek exit will mean russian entry. they will bail them out.. probably partially.., but their industries will be bought out by the east.