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Keith Willshaw wrote:
"Stinky Pete" wrote in message et... Well...it's been a romp for US jets pretty much always. Just look at the record of Russki jets in the first Gulf War, the Balkans, Libya and Israel vs. Syria in the Bekaa valley. This should give you some idea why jets like the Gripen, Eurofighter and Rafale can seem to sell for diddly.In the past 10 years, they've probably sold for export 20 aircraft between the three of them. Well now all 3 are relatively new aircraft and only the Rafale is likely to be offered to Syria, Iraq, Libya or Iran Saab have sold around 40 Gripen to SA and Hungary, and are negotiating with the Brazilians. I rather doubt that they would sell to Israel at all. As for Eurofighter the current no of orders is more than double that for F-22 at UK 250, Italy 130, Germany 130 and Spain 90 with export orders from Austria and interest from Singapore 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. Keith Whee... It's just as I wrote in the follow-up to Stinky's post!! :-) Only Keith, ... Do you really think that Iraq is going to be in the market for military, fighter, jets in the near future? |
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