The biggest advantage for the F-15SE is :

* Its American, and the US is invested heavily in South Korea’s defence
* Its a platform (F-15K) that the ROKAF already uses
* Its cheaper as a bid as per some reports
* It allows the ROKAF interoperability between the radar developments for their F-15 and F-16 fleet, just as the SABR allows USAF to integrate radar modes developed for the JSF onto the F16, ROKAF can develop common modes for its F-15 and F-16 AESA
* Some SE work and design would be in house

also Boeing has stated that it would help S.Korea on its KFX project…
don’t be surprised if we see a KFX based on the X-32!! 😮

hmm LEG has disappeared again. as usual. 10 posts then poof

But is worth to use it as a dogfighter? IMO russians will need a new fighter, even simpler than the F35, something like the Rafale or the Typhoon, with some LO tweaks and a practical LO undercarriage.

Rafale.. Typhoon.. simpler?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23651828

It seems like every day a bomb or two goes off. A few people killed here, a few people killed there.
Occasionally an allied soldier dies. In a few years time forces will be pulled out and then what?
Something has to be done globally, militarily, politically to solve this once and for all.
I fear we have just delayed a more major conflict or the middle east is destined to be at war internally for many, many more years.
Whatever happens it’s going to bite us at some point.

Europes fault for breaking up the Ottoman Empire. If the Turks had continued ruling, you’d have tolerance between Jews, Christians, and various Muslims..
the only cost is your young boys going to old hairy men.

well then, you guys should lay off the Russian and Italian stuff then.

but what about the Hawks? Im surprised RMAF is keeping them for so long.

production version of the pak-fa could change from a slide back to a pop up canopy.

see x-32 began as a two piece slide back

and intended to shift to a one piece pop up

The SH deal never worked out because the Russians offered the RMAF a much better [from a Malaysian government perspective] off-set package [and also sent a Malaysian to space!]; it was a decision made by the country’s political leadership. Forced to accept the Su-30, the RMAF then decided on a customised version of the Su-30 because what was offered by the Russians did not fit the RMAFs operational requirements. The Russians were also unable to provide a simulator, a targeting pod and an MAWS. Within industry circles here, it is known that the Russians were not very happy as all the chosen Western stuff resulted in a much lower profit margin for them.

It can be argued that the RMAF should have gone down the cheaper route of not integrating major non-Russians items to its Su-30 – like what Indonesia and Vietnam did.

From Day One, the RMAF has been use to dealing with Western suppliers; they got a huge shock in the mid-1990’s when they discovered that the Russians operated in a slightly diffferent manner. Another problem the RMAF found was that the engines and other components on the Fulcrums did not have the same MTBF and TBO as Western types operated.

The contenders to replace the Fulcrums are the Typhoon, Rafale, Super Hornet and the Gripen. Cost is a very important factor here. SAAB has an advantage as it is able to offer Gripens on lease, together with the Ericsson Eriye, to fulfill on longstanding RMAF requirement for an AEW platform. It was reported some time ago that BAE Systems offered to provide some former RAF Typhoon Tranche 1s for next to nothing if the RMAF ordered about 8 newly built Trache 3s [this deal was neither confirmed by BAE Systems or the RMAF]. This deal was reportedy veteod by other Typhoon partner nations.

so no more Russian stuff for the RMAF eh? I’m sad.. that means no Pak-fa for you guys.