Originally posted by NoRemorse
I think that many of you do not know that the Mirage is not the old Mirage III anymore... the Mirage 2000-5 is one of the best multirole fighter in the world... and Delta Wing is not obsolete...
Not surprisingly, you’re from France. Isn’t France actually about to remove from duty the very fighters they plan to sell to us?
Please take no offense, but the Mirage 2000 sucks. Hey, if you think it’s good, fill your entire air force with them. But, as a Brazilian, I’d rather have the Su-35 or even the SAAB fighter. The F-16 is a very bad choice, since the Americans won’t sell us all the good stuff that it can have. Missiles, for example, they will keep with them and only send when we need – if they think it’s OK for us to use them. Stupid choice. If the Americans even wouldn’t sell us the 20mm Vulcan Cannon for the AMX (the Brazilian version have to use 2 30mm European cannons) before, it’s unlikely they will be selling us high-tech stuff. Especially now that the "socialists" are in power here, and the ruling “workers party” just loves communist dictators and is historically (and currently) bent on raging anti-americanism. Well, you never now, American decisions regarding that never made much sense anyway.
The Mirage is also a bad choice, because it’s a bad fighter. It’s irrelevant that the French will transfer useless obsolete technology to us. Delta wing was obsolete in the 60’s, perhaps even in the 50’s.
We don’t need bombers, we can have as much AMX bombers as we want. If we really need obsolete bombers, we can build Xavantes. What we need air superiority fighters and interceptors. Not that the Su-35 isn’t an excellent fighter-bomber.
The F-15 is a very good multi-role fighter. So is the F-18, but the US won’t sell those, and they would be too expensive anyway. So, the Su-35 is, by far, the best choice.
Again, it’s nothing personal, but it’s my country we’re talking about, and I don’t want it to spend 700 million on a bad plane just so the French won’t be offended.
hehe...youe friend Lula Da Silva won´t buy the SU-35 even if they cost 1 U$S.
No he won't. Do you know why? Seriously? Our media suck up to him like Pravda to Stalin, so I have no idea why he simply won't buy the best fighter.
Originally posted by Ghost
Yeah, but i think that Peru only have those 2000s in South America.
Alas, i forgot, we have/had some Kfirs too.
And Venezuela has F-16s. Chaves and his wannabe revolutionaries with F-16s. Really ironic, isn't it? Like Komeini and Iran with F-14s.
Stupid populist president halted the process saying that "it is not a necessary expense right now". That was stupid because the Airforce had been saving that money for years and now they can´t use it and the money will not be used for other purposes.
