It is all about putting all your eggs in one basket. Everybody knows
about the Congress idiosyncrasies. Not to mention there may be plans to
do some kind of upgrade from type 52 F16 to near type 60.

IMHO, it is going to be a tossup between Rafale and the Typhoon. F15 is
too complicated and the road map is too short to operate. But Rafale
programme needs more money and the Typhoon roll out rate isn't exactly
fast.

Pity the people that have to make the decision. One thing that is for
sure, it is going to worth the admission tickets to Asian Aeropspace
2004. All down selects are required to do demos. Quite an event since
no one in this side of the ocean has seen a real Typhoon.

phil hunt wrote:

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:51:43 +1000, John Cook wrote:


Singapore has down selected the F15, Rafale and the Eurofighter
typhoon for their next generation fighter....

The F16, F18E/f and Sukhoi Su-30MK were rejected.



I'm surprised the F-16 was ruled out, sincre Singapore already
operates that plane.




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