12.05.2010, 08:19
Zitat:T/A-50 Golden Eagles for Iraq?
Iraq may be on track to become the first export customer for South Korea’s T-50 Golden Eagle family of supersonic jet trainers and lightweight fighters. But the KAI/Lockheed Martin plane will have to work for it, against a familiar set of international competitors.
DJ Elliott of the Long War Journal says that the A-50 was suggested in fall 2007 to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, by MNSTC-I’s Coalition Air Force Transition Team. Iraq’s underway basic trainer purchase is Hawker Beechcraft’s T-6 Texan II, but a jet trainer is required as an interim step between the T-6 and more advanced planes like the F-16s that Iraq is seeking. Depending on their installed equipment, TA-50s could also serve as F-16 supplements. Other contenders can also be equipped as light attack jets, albeit without the same loaded supersonic capabilities…
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