[DesScorp]

LOL. Remember when 500 was the minimum buy to be considered a fiscally successful fighter buy?

[aegiscg47]

Yes, the days where thousands of F-4s, F-16s, Mig-21s, etc., rolled off the assembly lines and then decades of upgrades is long gone. Many air forces, if you can call them that now, have fewer and fewer combat aircraft. I just read an article where South Africa is going to crate up twelve of their 24 Grippens and for the remaining twelve they only have six qualified pilots!