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Why are the Indian's willing to accept stuff that the American's themselve's are going to scrap ? Has the IN not learned anything from buying the lemon that killed the IN sailor's ?

How can any sane person not admire the Heyl Ha'Avir ? Those pilot's have the most air-air combat experience in jet's than any other AF in the world and your pilot training is superb. I've alway's been a fan of the IDF, but your airforce, the pilot's are awesome. Oh btw, one question is it still IDF/AF practice that active pilot's have their face's blurred out on T.V for security purposes ?

Guess some people just dont know how to drive in winter, or dont even bother with snow tire's. 1) Grey van, right pocket.. 2) Check out the dude who bails, abandon ship mon !

Who know's if those characters are Blackwater, the specimen below certainly is

To all who made this possible, thank you very much, fantastic work and for those of us who only have SFP1, it still works fine.

Aww crap. Sorry about that Nesher. Thank's

Thanks for reminding me why the Beach Boys suck big time.

Superb work !

Wasn't she designed primarily as an inteceptor for the Soviet bombers ?

I hear what you're saying. But, for once I would'nt be suprised if the Indian's did go the Lockheed route specifically because the aircraft being offered to them carries the lethal AESA radar, that alone gives the IAF an edge coupled with the fact that if the a/c could/would be locally manufactured by HAL. Personally in the single engine aircraft dept either the F-16IN or the Gripen are both tempting choices, I think the Gripen might be cheaper. In the twin engined choice the EF-2000, no way can they afford a reasonable number of them, so perhaps the Rafale or even the Super Hornet, which again has a formidable electronics suite.

What if they offer a F-15 IN for sale ? Or a F-15Ck (Canuck) for our AirForce ! That would be cool. EDIT:- No chance of there being a Canadian F-15 (just a dream of mine), since Canuck companies have major investments in the F-35, the companies making substantial profits in the F-35 program are Canuck companies, so I for one would like to see how many we get.

What ? My post insulted you ? I thought I was pointing on Lockheed's PAST shady business tactic's, but YOU got insulted..

Your only retort is an insult ?

What a beautiful bird she was. Man I hate Diefenbaker more and more every time I read about the Arrow.

Glad to hear that the pilots are safe.

So it's going to be just B.S as usual !

Damn ! I hope they find those pilot's alive and well.

No. Thank YOU to all those involved for giving us this high quality aircraft for FREE, really, the fact that we non-modder's get an aircraft for free is good enough, but to get one of such quality is what truly made this one of the most anticipated a/c's. Thank YOU to all involved....err...keep it up....Now, where's my MIG-29 damnit..(j/k)

LOL ! F-16IN ? Is that even possible, won't one of America's key "Allies" i.e Pakistan throw a fit, the same way Indian govt throw's a fit of outdated F-16 sales to Pakistan. Then again who know's maybe Lockheed can use the same bribing techniques on the Indians like the one's they used for the F-104 Widowmaker aka Flying coffin to Germany and other Western European countires EDIT:- Before someone says what ? a "reputable" company like Lockheed and scandal's, unimpossible, here's a taste of what it involved. Bribery Scandal

Thank's for the aircraft's that you've made so far. Cheers !

I'm forced to agree, landing is hard enough at time's but landing on a pitching carrier deck at night for e.g is something else.

I'm sure "REAL" combat aircraft pilot's despise UCAV's. I hate UCAV's as an aircraft enthusiast, real plane's have pilots in the pit. Period.

Man, that Gripen's looking real nice.

No, that's not what I meant, what I was trying to say was that it's rather amusing to see a Top Gun clip being used in the J-10 promotional vid, that's all.

Nice work Hitory !