highsea,
>Because the US defense aerospace industry is not dependent on foreign sales to stay afloat.
lets leave the money question apart. Lets talk in terms of planes' specs.
IMO, if the Sukhoi shows cobras on airshows and f22 doesn't, doesn't mean that either plane's manuevrability is good or bad. Again, those tricks are only EXAMPLES of what an AC can do. Like no one expects, that in the real battle the plane would spread a coloured smoke from it's wingtipps? :)
The question of the effectiveness of the super-manouverability in the dogfight I'd left open untill we get results of more or less real training (maybe like Cope India), where both planes are put into the same conditions.
to my mind the statement:
"The bidding process for the purchase of 12 new jet fighters was canceled because technological advancements would have rendered the aircraft being considered obsolete"
is a pure political blahblah...
1st, how can brasilians know if something is obsolete, if they DIDN'T get their hands on it? :)
2nd, U can call almost ANY AC obsolete, because of the progress. To avoid becommin' obsolete U can upgrade your hardware. The f15 is obsolete, but f15E AESA (or whatever it's called:) ) is not obsolete NOW. But it will be in several months :lol
So, as the main reason for that refuse I'd call a pressure from the US side, direct or indeirect, and I wouldn't blame Su35 or f16 for that. I don't even know if any field tests of both AC were conducted in Brasil :)
>Because the US defense aerospace industry is not dependent on foreign sales to stay afloat.
lets leave the money question apart. Lets talk in terms of planes' specs.
IMO, if the Sukhoi shows cobras on airshows and f22 doesn't, doesn't mean that either plane's manuevrability is good or bad. Again, those tricks are only EXAMPLES of what an AC can do. Like no one expects, that in the real battle the plane would spread a coloured smoke from it's wingtipps? :)
The question of the effectiveness of the super-manouverability in the dogfight I'd left open untill we get results of more or less real training (maybe like Cope India), where both planes are put into the same conditions.
to my mind the statement:
"The bidding process for the purchase of 12 new jet fighters was canceled because technological advancements would have rendered the aircraft being considered obsolete"
is a pure political blahblah...
1st, how can brasilians know if something is obsolete, if they DIDN'T get their hands on it? :)
2nd, U can call almost ANY AC obsolete, because of the progress. To avoid becommin' obsolete U can upgrade your hardware. The f15 is obsolete, but f15E AESA (or whatever it's called:) ) is not obsolete NOW. But it will be in several months :lol
So, as the main reason for that refuse I'd call a pressure from the US side, direct or indeirect, and I wouldn't blame Su35 or f16 for that. I don't even know if any field tests of both AC were conducted in Brasil :)
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