Do you count Kit-builds, licensed production or Slight modifications / variants of an existing design?
Anyway, it’s missing the point of the example. Giving Italy a Greek Challenger 2E would be dumb.
But a better example: giving the US the Desert Warrior or Shir 2.
Would be just as dumb as giving Britain the 2A4M.
They did use aim 9j
If you mean the Wirraway, I would consider this as domestic.
No, its not. You said it was a Greek Cr2E. It is not. It is a later iteration that was shown a few times, but did not took part in any trials.
But the UK doesnt need F/A 18s either with so many indian option which fit as well.
So i dont see yiur point here
It’s pretty clearly in Greek camo but ok
Providing something is technically capable without any limitations or technical issues, it’s open for consideration.
As for the German Phantoms, they did use AIM-9J:
As can be seen by the GAF F-4Fs in training in America. Weaponary being in a nations operational stockpile is not a requirement.
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it is quite strange to me that Americans wants ASRAAM and claims it as ‘superior’
I am not sure I know right (My knowledge about Advanced IR are tiny.),
but According to fuzzy memories about Advanced IR missiles,
I heard that USA dropped AIM-132 ASSraam after they saw Thrust-vectoring R-73 tied with HMS from MiG-29.
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My mistake then 👍
Russia canceled funding after 2 prototypes, Mikoyan continued despite the lack of funding and the India showed interest and started funding it, India also received them first
I thought I saw Griffin using AIM-9J and suddenly he changed to a cool phantom!
was it an illusion? XD
I mean examples like the CAC “Avon” Saber (CA-26 / -27), Mirage IIIO(A / -F), CA-36 etc.
All in all there are quite a few options going forward.
And it could be painet in Chinese Digital. It means nothing.
Here is a picture from the trials, even if you ignored the picutres i posted earlier, here is with a caption
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I mean it was a version never adopted, so it doesn’t really matter who it was intended for as it was always going to be British flagged as an addition
lmfao
It is better, its a larger missiles so of course it’s going to be. it wasn’t selected solely due to MIC pressure to pick an American Produced missile.
You say that like the AIM-95 / VTAS III (AN/AVG-8B) and ACE/AIMVAL didn’t happen in the early 70’s
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I spent 12 mil now and all I got was this.
Then I see some guy on reddit got the Tandem MAI from a few boxes.
I hate myself for spending 12 mil in the first place thinking I would get something I wanted
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