I hope you are joking as No way in hell will Russia sell a highly secret classified tech as PAKFA to a banana republic like Algeria or other third world countries like Brazil ect, why should Russia sell PAKFA to these countries so US will undoubtabely send their experts to analyze every aspect of this highly classified technology fighter that these countries would be more than happy to give US a detailed look at,no way in hell. Also I would like to know where whould Algeria or Brazil find the money or even close to pay about 150 million per plane especially given Algeria’s great track record of not paying for Mig29 SMT? Russia is not desperate for money like it was in the 90’s and therefore won’t sell sensitive classified tech to anyone,just look at all the secrecy accociated with the new Russian Armata tank program,no pictures of it are even being releses never mind even trying to buy it. Also Russian VVS will buy 200-250+ Pakfa as it is planned as the mainstay and core of the Russian VVS so Russia does not need export sales to keep costs down and all the Pakfa production capacity is needed for Russian VVS so that’s another reason Russia cannot export Pakfa. Also keep in mind that the FGFA export version is not the same thing as PAKFA it might have similar airframe but the radars,ecm and other classified tech is removed and will be replaced with something else. Russia might sell China some Su35S but never PAKFA,why so they will undoubtably copy it ahhaha no.

Actually Brazil is richer than Russia, yep yep.
Don’t forget, Pak-fa is already exported to India.
US experts already analyzing every aspect of Russian aircraft, even in Russia itself. See US spies and Su-34 scandal.

US was reluctant to participate in WW2 but after pearl harbour people were gunning to be drafted.

so you think Taiwan formally declaring independence would be akin to Pearl Harbor?

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so when will Algeria receive some to shoot down Rafales?

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Now we’re moving onto a separate topic — i.e.: whether China would be willing to go to war with Taiwan in the first place.
I foresee only a few reasons why China will invade Taiwan: deterioration of cross strait relations to the point of Taiwan moving to formal independence, and Taiwanese pursuit of nuclear weapons.
I am relatively confident that the mainland populace would support an invasion under either circumstance.
But who knows how moods will play out in coming decades.

first you state that mainland Chinese and Taiwanese would be reluctant in killing fellow Chinese
but then you state that the mainlanders would be in full support of such actions which come with invasion, which is it?

there are no pilots who are current on MiG29s in Iraq. Iraq had already put the remaining MiG29s it had into storage by 1995 and focused on keeping its few MiG23, MiG25 and Mirage-F1s as its front line combat type until 2003.

And you are indeed correct in stating that Iraq has had a dual supply policy in weapons since 1937… something that remained in force despite regime changes and several invasions…

Of course the F16 Block 52+ airframes are all nice and dandy… the fact that Iraqis are not allowed to hang off them any weapons without US approval is not so nice… it would be an “OK” weapon for simple ground attack and recon (against some smaller internal threats)… but I doubt it will be used as an interceptor at all once a proper fighter is inducted in the future.

here’s the thing, I thought US policies usually with held the release of a certain weapon unless others in the area had them.
since Turkey, Israel, and a few others already have AMRAAM, why can’t Iraq too.

(Again? When did I first undermine history?)
Whether those “regionalistic” examples can be applied today as a cause for high mutual hate is doubtful, and I never claimed there hasn’t been “intra Han chinese killing”. My claim was time and culture specific, that because of (relatively) common cultural/ethnic heritage, among other factors (greater informationization, globalization, cross strait links), a mainland-taiwan conflict probably won’t see the kind of mass killings or ethnic cleansing that we’ve seen in some other conflicts in recent years, namely the Balkans which was brought up.

I.e.: there will obviously be killing, but probably less ethnic hate motivated murders, relative to XYZ. Then again, we can’t predict what each nation may do, and may foment rumours and hate so as to enforce greater discipline, will to fight, etc in their soldiers, which if left unchecked could result in the same effect.

i agree that time can change feelings towards one another, but you’ve also left out other variables such as the role of ideologies.
keep in mind that it was only a few decades ago Chinese were more willing to kill other Chinese than to fight the Japanese.
These days China is richer and less willing to go to war.. it hasn’t fought a major war since 1979
countries are more willing to go to war (especially with a neighbor) when their situation is poorer and its people less prosperous.
the new generation of mainlanders are more educated and thus more critical, becoming more aware of the outside, and more willing to engage the outside.
just like how Americans can no longer stomach long wars, should a Chinese invasion (and it will be a PRC invasion because the ROC is unlikely to start hostilities), the longer it plays out, the less the PRC is willing to stomach it.