British Expatriate Network

From the CSM.
The Indian Airforce's Russian Sukhoi and 'French' roll fighter planes outmatched the US's F-16.

It must be all that curry they eat oops razz

This is the 2nd year in a row that they have done it and If they do it for a third time it will be a Hat Trick shock shock shock

http//www.csmonitor.com/2005/1128/p01s04-wosc.html?s=t5

Just goes to show that all this complacency about American superiority is folly. Reminds me of what I have read about British attitudes during colonial times That we could take anyone to the cleaners simply because we were British and they were inferior. At the end of the day, anyone who goes through the training to operate sophisticated military hardware cannot be a mug, whatever nationality they are.

This doesn't surprise me. Some of the late Russian jet fighters are quite amazing and the F-16 is an old design from the late 60's, despite it's modernisation and updates.

My dad used to do ground crew for RAF and has never been particularly complimentary about USAF - he reckoned that during the bombing competitions he used to work on, the USAF would miss so often, it was embarrassing. I suppose this probably speeded up the so-called "smart" bombing that we saw post-Vietnam.