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What about maintenance issues for a two engined aircraft that probably still needs as much maintenance as a normal flanker. With Pakistan trying to economise surely more cost effective and less maintenance intensive aircraft would be better. J-10's seem to fit the bill and PAF is already getting...

I believe the Eurofighters were not using their radars either, shame about the MKI's. I imagine it ruined the chances of the people we most likely had trying to get more information for exactly the purposes you mentioned. Out of interest do you know if they had radars removed for this? I have...

The world would be a better place, personally I think that the politicians in charge of all countries should be sent to war, (set up a nice little recreation of WW1;)), so that they know what war truly is and would be more unwilling to will it upon people. Two quotes that are quite fitting...

Eurofighters trained with MKI's in Britain not all that long ago, WVR only and most of the simulated fights were 1 on 1. According to people that I have talked to the results were roughly even with an edge to the Eurofighter in these dogfights, LOAL missiles and HMS more than countered for the...

Too true, gone are the days when British units went out on patrol regularly wearing no body armour or helmets, with the increased risk and earlier mistakes in the battle for hearts and minds there are few opportunities for this. Although you should have seen the patting on backs the media...

If you are taking an M4 and converting it 7.62 it would have to be strengthened to accommodate it, increasing weight and decreasing handling characteristics I would assume. With a short barrel and a more powerful round you would have some problems with ballistic characteristics and recoil. And...

My unit wore Berets occasional in Helmand and we did not always wear full body armour, rarely and it was a risk but it had its benefits. I can PM you some more details if you want.

If any decision had to be made by the UNSC then any move would be blocked by China. As far as I am aware Britain, France and the US are in favour of such a move (adding more names to the terrorist list), not sure about Russia but given their pro-India diplomatic relations then they were probably...

The people who are offended by this are those who have probably never been in the military, they are very patriotic and don't like our people taking criticism, which is fair enough but is a breeding ground for ignorance. Those in the Forces (came up in conversation with some of my friends who...

As I said it was a lucky shot, extremely lucky in fact. If they could get hits on exactly the same point multiple times it may immobilise it, although I doubt it would knock it out completely.

On the topic of Anti Tank weapons for close in use why not consider the MBT LAW, it may be a bit expensive but it seems very good. I'll post some information later when I get the chance.

Yes a Chally was damaged by a RPG-29, a lucky shot though, hit a weak point in the armour (of which there aren't many at all) and only damaged it. Not even enough to fully stop operation at the time, the tank was only stopped due to the driver getting injured in the foot but the tank could have...