"Stinky Pete" wrote in message
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Germany just barely avoided chopping its order.

A miss is as good as a mile

JSF is the Faberge egg of fighters. Not many can afford them.

Its a bargaing compared to the F-22


So why not
compare the JSF? JSF will sell literally thousands of aircraft.

Because the JSF is a fine STRIKE aircraft and passable fighter.
Its an F-16 replacement rather than an upgrade for the F-15

The second
batch of Euroblighters will stall in contract negotiations for most if not
all of this year. It seems the lovey-dovey partners can't agree on what
weapons systems to put in and how much they will cost. So the numbers you
mention above are a long way from reality. JSF will probably surpass those
numbers easily...and its not even in production yet.


Quite so but in the RAF JSF will be replacing the Harrier not
the Tornado F3


Germany came real
close to bailing out of the Eurofighter program. If it wasn't for
India,
Russia wouldn't sell anything either.


This is a silly thing to say when you consider the large number of
nations
operating Sukhoi and Mig aircraft.


Old ones. At some point though, India will have crashed all the old ones
and
then they'll have to buy new.


Su-30's seem to be selling rather better than F-22's in the export market

Keith