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2006-05-17 Caribbean-Latin America

Venezuela looking to swap U.S. F-16 fighters for Russian Su-35s

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Posted by ryuge 2006-05-17 04:55|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ship sank, you say? Mid-ocean? Tsk tsk. Hey it's a big, tough world out there, kids. Y'all be careful now, hear?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-05-17 10:57|| 2006-05-17 10:57|| Front Page Top

#2 If I were a maritime insurance company, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to insure the ship that was to transport the F-16's.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-05-17 11:18|| 2006-05-17 11:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Via Wikipedia:

Flight testing continued and up to 1994 eleven prototypes were built. Intended to enter service around 1995, the first test flights of an improved Su-35, the Su-37, in 1996 and the transfer of existing Su-35 prototypes to this program appeared to suggest the end of the Su-35 without any production aircraft.

Kinda hard to buy aircraft that don't exsist.
Also:

Russia has not ordered Su-37s, but it might find customers abroad, a market that now constitutes a sizable share of Sukhois income. Several prototypes have been built, but the aircraft is not in production.

The most recent news regarding the development of the Su-37 is that the project was cancelled due to lack of funding.

Poor, poor Russia. Poor, poor Chavez.

NO AIRCRAFT FOR YOU!!

Posted by DarthVader 2006-05-17 12:08|| 2006-05-17 12:08|| Front Page Top

#4 In that case maybe they will have to buy Irans lawnmower plane thing, or perhaps the ultra-horizon weapon if anyone can figure out what that is.

Posted by Mike N. 2006-05-17 13:22|| 2006-05-17 13:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Realistically, what is there best option for a fighter? Mig-25?

Posted by Mike N. 2006-05-17 13:23|| 2006-05-17 13:23|| Front Page Top

#6 But Rojas said the U.S. had broken the agreement unilaterally, so Venezuela considered itself free not to comply with its obligations.

So, seeing how we're free not to comply with obligations, I'd assume there would be no problem with us, I dunno, strafing said F-16's on the runway at Caracas International to prevent the sale?

Posted by tu3031 2006-05-17 13:41|| 2006-05-17 13:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Iran does NOT have F16s : they have some F4s, F5s, Mirages {courtesy of Saddam}, and F14s as their Western-built fighters. The parts and avionics are not swappable between the models. Once again, the stupid are proposing things that have no basis in reality. Chile could buy the F16s, and even have some support for same, or Pakistan could.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-05-17 14:21|| 2006-05-17 14:21|| Front Page Top

#8 But shieldwolf, planes are planes and it's such a good story.

Posted by 6 2006-05-17 15:49|| 2006-05-17 15:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Hugo should just sell his F-16s on eBay. Then he can take the cash and buy a handful of those Chinese MiG knock-offw we were discussing the other day. They may not be state of the art fighters, but they will be enough to go up against his neighbors and own people. Assuming he has pilots, of course.

Posted by SteveS 2006-05-17 16:19|| 2006-05-17 16:19|| Front Page Top

#10 So is Venezuela saying it demands to compete wid INDIA for the world's record of whose MIG-equipped Air Force has killed most of its own pilots???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-17 22:58|| 2006-05-17 22:58|| Front Page Top

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