In article ,
(phil hunt) wrote:

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:14:03 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:

And since they'll be "new" planes, they're going to have the normal
teething problems, without a good crew to do the updates and fixes that
any plane suffers off of the assemby line.

If Israel buys a counter to the Typhoon -- say Typhoons themselves,
or F-35, or F/A-22, then they too will have the same teething
troubles.

But the Israelis actually have a decent cadre of flightline troops who
can fix and/or modify the planes when that happens. The Saudis, most
definitely, do *not*.

And a month down the road, or six months down the road, right when the
Israelis are getting their into decent shape, the Saudis (or the
Egyptians, or whoever) will be trying to figure out what systems to
ignore in order to call them "mission capable."

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