there are many areas where PLAAF is vulnerable and has many disadvantages which can be wisely exploited by adversaries like India in case of a war. Though the number of fighter jets and other aircraft are quite impressive and assuming that the pilots highly trained and their ...
perhaps in exchange for other weaponry more useful to a military-backed dictatorship situated in a desert. Weaponry like the $5 billion worth of Rafale fighter jets that Egypt agreed earlier this year to buy from France, for example. Egypt thus became the first foreign buyer of the French jet...
The Rafale is very a cute airplane, not terribly fast, that came in third in an open competition with fighters made by Boeing and Saab. But as Rhys Thompson of ISN Security Watch notes, “The Brazilian government reiterated that the final choice of a fighter jet would be based on ...