FA-50 is comparable to Yak-130, Hawk etc...

JF-17 is more like earlier blocks of F-16

FA-50 is not a good aircraft, no where close to JF-17 Block 2.

Never buy weapon from a country that is not super power and rely in third party to supply engine, avionics. Buy only from US

Budget issue go for J-10C. Else F/A-18E/F. Forget overpriced Rafale with expensive maintenance

You buy FA-50, you buy from US via middleman resulting in double markup being more expensive. When comes to war, South Korea is not super power and they won't dare to deliver goods to your doorstep if situation is deadly. You buy from US, Russia or China, their shipment will still deliver whether they have to wade through battlefield.

French weapons were used to be good alternative if you cannot get American or Russian back then in 60's, 70's but today they are nothing more than overpriced unreliable impractical junks that only look good on paper like pijot.

MY and China aren't enemy. If MY at war with SG, it is US that will place embargo on MY. This is why MY buy weapons from US, Russia and now China. If either 1 doesn't work, we get another as backup.

French is part of NATO US allies, refer Falklands war where Argentine operated US & French equipment being placed on embargo by US for fighting British invaders, numbers of Argentine weapons in despair due to no spare parts. Iraq in 1989 had numbers of relatively new French weapons, they all failed against US weapons while Russian weapons that managed to do at least some killing.

It's a jet that couldn't shoot. But good enough as a awac & Sigint replacement. But it also couldn't be upgraded. You sure you wanna blow your money on it?

The development of F35B VTOL has made smaller carrier is possible for small defence force, but I would say this carrier is just a"modified" LHD size.

Even ID and SG has this "carrier" design which is basically a strecthed LPD.

Indonesia reacted nicely to China threat. Meanwhile Malaysia still cannot prioritize national security vs songlap. We failed hard. No other explanation.

this jet too can only be sold to country that themselves can bought american or european jet. so the possibilities of block 2 or 3 being finance by foreign sales is rather limited.

Though US probably won't have a problem transferring technology that the chinese can master. So unless the Chinese has internal targeting pod & their carrier  have electromagnetic launcher, doubt US would transfer those tech to SK.

So it's quite an opportunity for new up & comers to wrestle the techs leadership away from SK, under US blessings off cause.

SK, they don't build anything other than assembling parts imported from USA. They pretty much depend entirely on US buying parts separately. There's no technology transfer if SK can't even reverse engineer replicate the entire engine, avionics.

Unlike China, they get their hands on blackhawk, they came up with WZ-20 copycat blackhawk, they got their hands on LANTIRN pod, you see their fighters carrying a replica. Miraculously, they copied quite good.

I guess that's why China secretly acquired western military crashed aircrafts to study the material and hardware e.g. The crash special stealth Blackhawk used in Osama killing mission..I won't be surprise if they already access the some part of F-1117 nighthawk crashed during Bosnia war or RQ-170 stealth drone hijacked by Iran

Read more: https://www.dsca.mil/press-media/major-arms...k-7072-aircraft

https://www.dsca.mil/press-media/major-arms...ctical-missiles - F16V better

Got AIM-120 !!!

The Indos are funny...

Taking stock as is. And no. R urs?

Ah well, I couldnt find any with Msias hardware. Why would anyone?

Hahaha. No at all. The point is that You are missing the forests for the trees. Be more inclusive.

Come on Klthinker

Ive seen enough hubris and unfairness to last a life time so i left to be elsewhere. Im trying to help you rise above the miasma of confusion and chains holding us back home. Ill leave it at that.