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Back before the Yom Kippur war, we did not have blogs, but we had similar conversations about the huge numbers of Syrian and Egyptian MIG 21s and the pitiful numbers of Neshers that the IAF had. Well....we all know what the IAF did with those MIG 21s in their poor little Neshers. And, during the Vietnam war, I saw adults scratch their heads and wonder how those little asians with their Korean war era MIG 17s were downing space age F4s with IR and radar guided air intercept missiles.

In the end, it is the pilot in the systems management seat who is going to win the next engagement. Put a young man 90% pumped full of patriotic pride into a J 10 (10% actual flight training), paint a poster picture of and constantly extolling the virtues of a pure (now rich) communist state. Match him up against a cold and calculating young man, brought up with sony play station, cynical and very well trained in live fire exercises, in an F-15 with all the whistles and bells that the second largest economy in the world can bring to bear. Who is going to die? The idealistic communist. So, EFA Typhoon, Rafale, JSF....... doesn't matter. Until we get the unmanned fighters, its the man in the cockpit who will do the killing.