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"Stinky Pete" wrote in message news 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 |
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