Isn't if funny how fair weather the media is? Whilst some amateurs on forums such as this have been saying this very thing for almost a year, only now is it that the media is reporting this. Until very recently they were still stating empathically that the entire scope of this deal was for 36 fighters only.
I cross my fingers !The MKI squadrons ordered to date is 13.5.
And in case more MKIs are ordered, it will be from Russia as CKDs. The Russians have manufactured 212 MKIs out of the 272. They have supplied 50 flyaway and 162 kits.
If these people had followed us on IDF over the last 6 months, they wouldn't have been so clueless.
Is this really that new?
Is this really that new?
Haven't the two sides been agreed on this sale for a while now? What is pending is not mutual agreement but the SIGNING of the damn contract and sending over the first cheque.
If i read the french (because I understand better) it seems there is no more things to agree for a signature. The only problem is that it is a rumor and not an official statement, but coming from the press both Francophone and Anglophone.
So that means the issue holding it up since January-cost- has been resolved?
The Rafales won't be obsolete in 2018.
New Recruit
A long time ago I thought that the F-35 will be obsolete the day it will finally be operational.
And you were right
You may be right.
