Posted on 11/14/2006 5:22:25 PM PST by SandRat
We should sell them the F-16I, the model sold to Israel and India.
UGH. I mean Block 52 models according to a thread from September. (Wish I could blame someone else for that error)
They certainly do!
The US delegation usually uses a lot of clout that might be questionable, like being politically ignored, shutting them out of negotiations about NATO deployment and such.
Some comments in this article.
http://www.warsawvoice.pl/view/855/
The JAS-39 Gripen is cheaper and more modern.
Sure, using what resources you have in such a negotiation may not be wrong, per se, but as a Swede, it's a bit bitter when you offer the better aircraft.
"We should sell them the F-16I"
This is pretty much the same version, only Israelites changed some systems to their own, to support own industry.
Hmmmmmm,.... good question.
The early Mig-29s had inferior range & payload-the newer ones have overcome many of those shortcomings & are as good as any new fighter out there(barring the F-22/35).Anyway the Polish F-16s will be flying alongside their newly recieved ex-German Mig-29s!!
I don't think Poland's F-16s are the most advanced F-16s in Europe,let alone the most advanced fighters in the continent.The Greek ones have much of the same avionics in addition to CFTs & the new IRIS-T missile.
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