Greeting from Croatia!
There it was a lot of comments here in various forums about that gentle offer from our big brothers (as Croats and Germans share a “special relationship” similar to the one between UK and you).
To sum all of them in one it was something like: Ahahahahahah!
It is a complete absurdity: 13tons heavy figthers,with two thirsy J-79 engines each and with the necessity of a crew of two?
20 of them? How nice: so we will name each of them after the name of each one of the counties of our 4 and an half million people’s country.
So, let’s summarize: we have to keep them 5-7 years, buy spare part from you and obviously take two years time to teach 20 pilots and and expecially 20 WSO, a role that never existed neither in our air force nor in the one of old Jugoslavija only to fire them after that period and maybe be obliged to buy your eurofighters after this ?
DANKE dear, but there will be another occasion to honour our unending friendship.
Well, maybe you can donate instead some of the Leopard, Marder, FH-70 you are going to retire folloving your army profesionalization, so with money spared we will buy the light fighters (gripen, mirage 2000, fa-50 golden eagle not so much types really) that fit our specifics instead.
The 20 WSO can fly some drones after Croatia can afford 12 modern fighters.