It depends if we go post war only or we consider WWII.

If we go post war and we want to consider all the aircraft I guess the Canberra has been used in action as well….

An Italian Air Force C130J crashed today in Pisa after take off.
The 5 Crew Members died

R.I.P.

http://www.repubblica.it/2009/11/sezioni/cronaca/aereo-pisa/aereo-pisa/aereo-pisa.html

So if AFM is ‘ not truly “the Worlds leading miltary aviation magazine” any suggestions for which magazine is? While it will never be everything that everyone would like — it is the best in its catagory.

With regard to the ‘ (see the overload of PAF articles recently)’ — once again —- the last PAF Cheif interview was in Sept 08 and the last feature ( if it qualifies for that- being only 2 pages long) on the Paf was in Nov 08 —- thats 9…. count them ………9 months ago that we had the last PAF ‘feature’ — it wasn’t even an article — just a few pictures ——– and that qualifies as ‘overload of PAF articles recently’:confused:

Sounds to me like some members specific dislike for the PAF for nationalistic reasons is clouding their comments about AFM in general.

If you look at the past 4-5 years the frequency of articles on PAF is very high more than PAF deserve (at least for me). If the nationalistic reasons are supposed to be referred to me, to be honest as an Italian there is enough coverage of AMI in AFM. So I am fine

Regards

I would love so much to say my opinion about Made in China, but this thread is about UAE M2000.

Here are the options, the planes should be in good condition and quite expensive.

An option could be piece meal the deal and send to different customers. For instance Peru’ might be interested in some of them considering how Chile is growing, Argentina might do the same, maybe with some help.
For what concerns ROC I would not dismiss it. China reminds me of Japan in the 80s when everybody was scared that they would be the biggest power.
So at the end if UAE would decide to sell some of their M2000 to ROC they would do it and there still would be plenty of customers for their oil.

Regards

Sorry to go off-topic.

I still think that the UAE Mirage would be an awesome purchase, especially if you do not want to have your hands tied by the US.

Of course part of the problem is how the French Government would manage the sale if you past that point everything would be fine.

For what concerns the Qatari deal with India, the Indian purchasing process has some (big) flaws (look at the trainer and helicopters)

Regards

I guess that it all ends up of how much you want to spend since quality cost.
Unfortunately here in the US the commercial always tell you that you can get a 5 foot sub for 4.99 $ they never tell you how it taste.

The operational report for the Mirage 2000 have been impressed especially in Indian service.

If I were Argentina I would buy those Mirage 2000-9 now

Since all the 4 Nations of the Eurofighter consortium have agreed to sell their T1 Typhoons to other nations on a Government to Government agreement, in order to support Tranche 3A and 3B. I guess that museum and scrapyard is where the F3s will end up.

It was too much a specialised aircraft.

The only country for which the F3 could be useful and does not have Hornets is Argentina (strange isn’t it). They have large area to cover and not have a lot of money, so F16 and Mirage 2000 should be out of the equation for this reason.