On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:08:51 GMT, "L'acrobat"
wrote:


"John Cook" wrote in message
.. .


Its quite a mine field, once you start going down the 'your an ally,
but not that trustworthy route'

As I noted earlier (in regards F-16/79) it is also a national prestige
issue, no country was prepared to buy the 2nd rate F-16 because it was
designed to be a 2nd rate a/c for countries that could not be trusted with
cutting edge stuff.

It will be interesting to see how this impacts on sales.


Yup your right, the fear the US is showing is laughable, even if
they gave "insert your favourite nasty regime here" a hundred
F/A-22's that "nasty regime" could'nt hope to win a conflict with the
US, what are they afraid of?, Australia with 100 JSF's!!!.

I can't see it doing anything but harm, why they feel they needs to
downgrade the JSF is beyond me, when they have the F/A-22's as their
premier fighter.....

Hmmmm, when's the F/a-22 review again...;-)

Cheers
John Cook

Any spelling mistakes/grammatic errors are there purely to annoy. All
opinions are mine, not TAFE's however much they beg me for them.

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