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October 13th 03, 08:07 PM
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In article , AL wrote:
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. Not likely. They may upgrade the block 52s but not to near block 60. The airframe and systems are too different to make it economical. 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. It's all about loiter time and weapons. In a way, this almost mirrors the Korean decision. The fact that they operate F-16s becomes a plus for the F-15 wrt engine support. -- Harry Andreas Engineering raconteur 
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