{"id":197788,"date":"2008-01-11T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/11\/australia-looking-at-procuring-russian-fighters\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T11:01:00","slug":"australia-looking-at-procuring-russian-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/11\/australia-looking-at-procuring-russian-fighters\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Looking at Procuring Russian Fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that this is more gamesmanship than anything else.  The Australian military<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">really<\/span> want the F-22, but it has not been cleared for export, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/01\/10\/220724\/australia-to-weigh-lockheed-martin-f-22-against-russian-fighters.html\">so they claiming that they are evaluating the MiG-29 and the Su-35<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Australians are not happy about having the buy the F-35 JSF, because it lacks the agility that they want, and because there are serious scheduling and budget issues.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The new defence minister has meanwhile warned that Canberra will not tolerate further delays or an increase in the cost of the F-35.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, Australia is making noises about canceling its $5.8 billion purchase of 24 F\/A-18 E\/F &#8220;Superhornets&#8221; as a part or reevaluating their defense needs.<\/p>\n<p>My assessment is that they are playing chicken in an attempt to get the US Congress to change the law that prevents F-22 exports, though even with that hurdle taken care of, the development costs of an export version looks to be around $1 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that this is more gamesmanship than anything else. The Australian militaryreally want the F-22, but it has not been cleared for export, so so they claiming that they are evaluating the MiG-29 and the Su-35. The Australians are not happy about having the buy the F-35 JSF, because it lacks the agility that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1112,1007,1005,1008,964,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-and-new-zealand","category-aviation","category-business","category-defense-procurement","category-foreign-relations","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}