L39 Fighet Jets for sale - £200,000. Bargain!

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Still, not bad at all, and given the cuts that the UK airforce are going to have to make in order to get its eurofighters, may well be worth passing on to the MOD.

Hehe. You'd be better off buying the Griffin. It's faaar cheaper, and has similiar performance, IIRC.

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the_leander wrote:

whabang wrote:

Still, not bad at all, and given the cuts that the UK airforce are going to have to make in order to get its eurofighters, may well be worth passing on to the MOD.

Hehe. You'd be better off buying the Griffin. It's faaar cheaper, and has similiar performance, IIRC.

Yeah I watched with interest what Saab were producing in Griffin, and its a very versatile aircraft, though not as survivable (in as much as it would take less to knock out a Griffin as it would a eurofighter) as Eurofighter, you can get 2 for the same price so it does ballance out. hell, Griffin as it stands is cheeper then the aging Tornado F3s/Gr1s and far more versatile not to mention manuvourable.

Yeah.
Both planes will blow up if directly hit by a AAM, though. :-)

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adz wrote:

The thing with Eurofighter is that its designed in such a way as to make getting that shot off much more difficult (if you can outmanuvoure your oponant to the degree that eurofighter can do to just about everything out there currently) then you have a better chance of surviving in a dogfight.

Unless your the haplass victim of an AMRAAM or something along those lines.

Not to mention the potential to avoid the missile in the first place.

Considering most modern AAM's can pull turns in excess of 15G's, you would have to be real lucky.

Well,

Both the Eurofighter and the Griffin are made to be extremely agile. Avoiding a missile shouldn't be seen as impossible.
They are, together with the F-22 (IIRC), the only fourth-generation fighter aircraft availible today. The Griffin is the only one in active duty until the Eurofighter has been delivered.