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2007-08-29 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Steve White 2007-08-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Only 126? How does FREE sound?

Posted by Besoeker 2007-08-29 01:10|| 2007-08-29 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Relations between Moscow -- which meets 75 percent of Indias armament needs -- and India are now bumpy due to a delay in the delivery of a Russian aircraft carrier and bickering over escalating costs.

Is there some sort of congenital predisposition that compels Russia to piss in the punchbowl at every opportunity? Here's hoping that India somehow overcomes it usual obsessively penurious bias and finally buys itself some high performance American hardware. One would think that Russia's constant pandering to Islamic terrorist nations would militate India away from doing business with them but the lure of saving a couple of paise must be totally overpowering.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-29 01:39|| 2007-08-29 01:39|| Front Page Top

#3 a fair and transparent selection process

This applies only to the parties doing the bidding, I assume.

Posted by gorb 2007-08-29 03:02|| 2007-08-29 03:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Eighteen of the fighters would be bought off the shelf while the remaining 108 planes would be manufactured under licence in India, officials quoting the tender documents said.

f16 maybe but that's about it

Posted by Boss Craising2882 2007-08-29 10:32|| 2007-08-29 10:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Let's not do a Clintonesque transfer of military technology that's any more recent than, say, the F16-C or D. Minus the more interesting bits of avionics.

Posted by lotp 2007-08-29 10:45|| 2007-08-29 10:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Too late. AESA radar is included in both the F-18 and F-16 bids.

Posted by ed 2007-08-29 10:49|| 2007-08-29 10:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Ofer up some early model F-16s or Hornets as a freebie (like apucher does w/ dope) to get the inside line on new aircraft. Lots of these old birds in mothballs. of course the EU and WTO would have a severe case of panty-waddage to contend with....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-08-29 14:31|| 2007-08-29 14:31|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-08-29 15:07|| 2007-08-29 15:07|| Front Page Top

#9 The Mikoyan Gurevich MIG-21 Fishbed is the most produced jet aircraft of all time and the most produced combat aircraft since WWII.

McDonald's has sold the most hamburgers and Thomas Kinkade the most paintings and neither of them have any reputation for premium quality either.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-29 16:19|| 2007-08-29 16:19|| Front Page Top

#10 McDonald's has sold the most hamburgers and Thomas Kinkade the most paintings and neither of them have any reputation for premium quality either.

Ouch....

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-08-29 16:49|| 2007-08-29 16:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Send the the F-18 base models we are replacing now, let them "remanufacture" the airframes as we upgrade ours to the F-18 Super Hornet models.

Avionics can be reworked, and it solves their issues for high performance navalized aircraft.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-08-29 18:04|| 2007-08-29 18:04|| Front Page Top

#12 The Mig-21 has also killed more pilots than even the infamous F-104 "Widowmaker". The way the cockpit was designed and the way the ejection seat worked, the aircraft took off the legs just above the knees. You couldn't get down by parachute fast enough to keep from bleeding to death. It also had a nasty habit of flaming out at low altitude. Most of the problems were corrected by the time the "J" model came out, but by then there were tens of thousands of the older aircraft. We won't even talk about the Chinese knock-offs...

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-08-29 23:49|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-08-29 23:49|| Front Page Top

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