Moderadores: Lepanto, poliorcetes, Edu, Orel
Vivek Lall, the vice president of strategy and business development at Lockheed: "We see current demand outside of India of more than 200 aircraft... Bahrain and Slovakia had picked the F-16 Block 70 that had been offered to India. We are in discussions with Bulgaria, several other countries, 10 countries. There is a kind of a renaissance of the F-16."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lock ... SKCN1PF1CY
Orel escribió::arrow: Parece que el Pentágono va a pedir 1.200 millones de dólares para comprar en 2020 doce F-15X para sustituir F-15C añejos de la ANG, y de paso probar esa versión. El plan es del Pentágono, no de la USAF:
https://about.bgov.com/blog/pentagon-bi ... -fighters/
1/18/2019
JOHN A. TIRPAK?
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Air Force Undersecretary Matt Donovan said the Air Force has to seek quick ways to recapitalize its fighter force, and suggested the F-35 just isn’t coming online fast enough. However, he would neither confirm nor deny whether the F-15X is in the fiscal 2020 defense budget.
When asked at an AFA Mitchell Institute event on Friday why USAF might back off its previously ironclad policy of refusing to buy any “new old” aircraft, Donovan declined to talk about the fourth-generation F-15X as a budget item, because to do so would be “pre-decisional,” and “I like my job.”
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the Air Force has to seek quick ways to recapitalize its fighter force, and suggested the F-35 just isn’t coming online fast enough
Como tantas veces, del archivo histórico de Flight International, año 1996:
Orel escribió:Suiza confirma que ayer ha recibido cinco ofertas para su concurso, las de siempre: F-35, EFA, Rafale, Rhino y Gripen. Para entre 30 y 40 cazas. Decidirá a finales de 2020 ó 2021, para empezar recepciones en 2025. La decisión tendrá que volver a ser votada por el pueblo suizo, que ya tumbó la del Gripen hace años:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swis ... SKCN1PJ2EX
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