Pibwl: Why 96?.. Maybe 120 - or 144?... :-)
Because then we'd have two wings instead of one, 2x48, with 96 modern fighters we'd be set for 20 years also there was money for it however none of the politicians was willing to take responsibility for such a huge purchase so it ended with a single wing of 48.
Pibwl: In reality, Poland is almost non-existing player on world's defence market.
Compared to Germany or US? Yes, compared to any post soviet republic however its a giant.
Pibwl: Malaysia bought only several dozen of tanks. If you meant a tank contest in Peru,
Nope i meant WZT-3 purchase.Pibwl: As for Iraq - Poland managed to gain a little fraction of orders for rifles and armoured cars, while US manufacturers are benefiting from destroying of Iraqi equipment by the US Army.
And that little fraction was still a large order in itself so your point is?
Pibwl: Naturally, if you refer to avionics and radar, not to the airframe itself...
Which is what matters since the airframe did not change for 30 years bar stealth machines so basically its still a XXI cent fighter jet able to fight on equal footing with any machine except the most advanced american air superiority fighters.
Pibwl: How many? Two prototypes 10 years ago? ;-)
Last i checked we've got 8 and 6 more rolling down in the first quarter of 2010 for a total of 48 till 2012 so whats the point of your baiting?
Pibwl: It could: Gripen. While it's at least equally good, it's cheaper, especially in service.
But its not as good, in fact its not nearly as good in air superiority role and has less of a modernisation potential given that we knew we'd buy less then 100 fighters quality machines were sought after more then economic class fighter like the Grippen, the only reason why Czechs bought it was because they have much less money to burn then Poland.
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