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Look at the few posts above.

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42 minutes ago, bojan said:

120h each year. Total 360+h, with no year with less than 120h, which was impossible to do at that moment...

Ah, now it makes sense.

Yes, I can see why this can be a problem. I suspect that would have been an issue for Greece as well.

I guess that's an extra reason why Rafale looks like an attractive choice.

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Thank you for the explanation Bojan. When this is touched upon by media here it is usually portrayed as an advantage, that Saab is able to provide a full package (airframe+training+possible shared future development) and that it is something the end user wants and benefits from. 

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I wonder if this is related to the Croatian Rafale buy. I guess they need something equal or as good.

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No. Initial talks actually predates that one, and have started few years ago, when Russian choice has became no go.

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I suppose it depends on what flight hours can actually qualify you. If it needs to be fast jet time, then you ned a jet trainer. If something like the Pilatus or Embraer advanced turboprop trainers count, then you have more chance. You might even get into a situation where someone has time in an advanced turboprop trainer, but it isn't counted because it isn't one they recognise.

There's only so much that industrial offsets can compensate for - if you won't train people to fly the thing, they're not going to buy it.

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On 4/10/2022 at 2:01 PM, bojan said:

Short version - Sweden basically required pilots to already have 120h for 3 last years, while everyone (in 2008., Russia, Germany and US) offered to throw in additional training for those that don't fulfill requirements. There were also some language requrements that Sweden insisted on, while other again offered additional training. Since at that moment Serbian AF had 4 operational MiG-29s, there was no way for pilots to have 120hours for 3 last years...

It was the same with Croatia, basically no MiG-21 pilot fulfill requirements.

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(sniffsniff) I will miss the croatian FrankenMigs.😪

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5 minutes ago, TonyE said:

(sniffsniff) I will miss the croatian FrankenMigs.😪

There, there

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7 hours ago, alejandro_ said:

It was the same with Croatia, basically no MiG-21 pilot fulfill requirements.

Sheesh, reportedly Saab was very close with the deal with Botswana, but hard to believe situation would have been much better there.

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Breathless journalism is breathless. Turkey and Bulgaria OKd transit.

 

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It would be funny if it hadn't prompted a raft of stupid speculation about China's apparent ability to project power via strategic air ALL THE WAY TO EUROPE!!!!111!!

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What will you all trust? Your knowledge of things military, or the mainstream media.

Do not be like that kind of contrarian conspiracy theorists! 😁

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Uh, guys ... this is "Just The News", who run Hunter Biden Corruption Ukraine Aaargh! stories and stuff. They're on the level of the "Washington Free Beacon", which threw a fit about Russian aircraft and submarines traveling through "US strategic waters" any time they came within 200 miles of CONUS, and blamed it on Obama for cancelling some future procurement program. Not exactly a base for serious debate.

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4 hours ago, Markus Becker said:

...at least 4th Balkan War. 

5th

3rd was during WW2

4th was in the '90s.

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9 hours ago, BansheeOne said:

Uh, guys ... this is "Just The News", who run Hunter Biden Corruption Ukraine Aaargh! stories and stuff. They're on the level of the "Washington Free Beacon", which threw a fit about Russian aircraft and submarines traveling through "US strategic waters" any time they came within 200 miles of CONUS, and blamed it on Obama for cancelling some future procurement program. Not exactly a base for serious debate.

Yes, and the "story" showed up on a wide bunch of "National Interest" / "Business Insider"  clone aggregator sites that contaminated by Google "news" feed for days.

Crappy sites like "19forty5", or something like that.

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15 hours ago, BansheeOne said:

Uh, guys ... this is "Just The News", who run Hunter Biden Corruption Ukraine Aaargh! stories and stuff. They're on the level of the "Washington Free Beacon", which threw a fit about Russian aircraft and submarines traveling through "US strategic waters" any time they came within 200 miles of CONUS, and blamed it on Obama for cancelling some future procurement program. Not exactly a base for serious debate.

 

🤣🤣

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Very very unlikely.

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Total retro look for Puma (ordered for police SF), I like it way more than todays "flat grey/black"...

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