Switzerland select Grippen

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

lol seriously? The USAF is planning on using the F-16 until 2025!! Man, the Falcon is a great little multirole jet!

lol too - actually the have to keep in air because the F35 never got ready.
And again, the ground attack capabilities are irrelevant - for us.
Afaik they still produce some new F16s for NICs.

If the Tiger wasn't such bitch to maintain and had a bigger airframe with space for modern avionics I'd vote to keep them.

[Al Schlageter]

French cartoon
http://client.globecartoon.com/cgi-b...sin?id=1002182

[swiss]

Again, the production/assembly in Switzerland is a SWISS REQUEST.



Edit: Old joke, but cartoon is still quite funny.

[TomcatViP]

Originally Posted by swiss

Again, the production/assembly in Switzerland is a SWISS REQUEST.



Edit: Old joke, but cartoon is still quite funny.

Oh there is the right use of the famous Swiss army knife, Uh ?

[swiss]

Originally Posted by TomcatViP

Oh there is the right use of the famous Swiss army knife, Uh ?

Yeah, the Airforce version comes with an Allen-key...

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by swiss

lol too - actually the have to keep in air because the F35 never got ready.
And again, the ground attack capabilities are irrelevant - for us.
Afaik they still produce some new F16s for NICs.

If the Tiger wasn't such bitch to maintain and had a bigger airframe with space for modern avionics I'd vote to keep them.

lol no, cos the F-16 is waaaaay cheaper to use than a F-35, which is gonna start being delivered in 2 years.
I'm starting to wonder whether you want an efficient jet or a fancy one

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

lol no, cos the F-16 is waaaaay cheaper to use than a F-35, which is gonna start being delivered in 2 years.

With what do should the airforce replace the jets if not the F35?
There were no alternatives, and the F35 IS the F16 replacement.

I'm starting to wonder whether you want an efficient jet or a fancy one

Makes me wonder what your definition of efficient is.
It doesn't get more efficient than the "Ikea plane".