Pakistan considering to buy either Eurofighter or Rafale

tphuang said:

what the heck are you talking about FreeAsia? Who told you America is selling F-22s to India. They said they will sell F-22 to only their most trusted allies (ie: Britain, Canada, Australia and Japan) Stop this bs.

Saudi Arabia is different from Pakistan. It has had connection with BAE for a long time, it bought the tornado before. It only makes sense that EADS is willing to sell Eurofighter to them now. Now, imo, typhoon can be offered to Pakistan, but that's because I thought any of the partner states can chose who they want to sell it to. Maybe I'm mistaking?

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Washington should not only sell the F-16s and F-18s it has agreed to, but should work toward larger-scale defense industrial cooperation, making New Delhi a partner on the Joint Strike Fighter or, better yet, the F-22 program. But more important than platforms are the electronic subsystems that give the greatest qualitative advantage in modern combat and form the core of command and control networks. As former senior policy analyst at RAND Ashley Tellis observes, “What India needs most often are not ‘big ticket’ weapons that galvanize public attention but high-quality assemblies and components that make a difference to the durability and effectiveness of existing inventory.”[22] Given that computer software codes provide such an important element in these networks, Indian firms are well poised to partner with U.S. counterparts.

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ArjunMk1 said:

But US will never give its radar codes to Pakistan !!! Also current F16s of Pakistan have no BVR radars , so Pakistan have to get some from China and Again US will never let China to put her radar on its F16s !!!

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Actually Britain can and will.

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ger_mark said:

got a link?



Britain can't sell anything without permission of the other 3 members, they only produce the cockpit and the tail, the wings are made in italy and spain and the trunk and many elextronic systems are made in germany, every EF country does put this 4 fragments together and none of them is building the plane of its own. BAE can't just open 3 more assembly lines and copy the Parts the other company's are building

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Eurofighter Chases Turkey, Other Customers
The European consortium that builds the Typhoon fighter is hopeful for new orders from Aegean rivals Turkey and Greece as well as from other European and non-European customers, company officials said.

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ger_mark said:

This link doesn't have anything to do with your claim


Even Schröder said he would never sell anything to India or Pakistan and he wanted to lift embargo against China, Merkel will never

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ger_mark said:

Britain can't sell anything without permission of the other 3 members........

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FuManChu said:

That would apply to new aircraft, but what about ones that have already been sold to member states? The Saudi deal appears to be based on selling on some of the Typhoons already allocated to Britain. So are you telling me that if any of the contributors ever wants to sell its jets to another country (decide they have too many, are getting obsolete in the future, etc) it has to get permission from the others first? I haven't read anything in the papers about requiring consent from the 3 over the Saudi deal.

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