And who’s gonna fly ‘em? :-)
My thoughts exactly. Buying them is one thing; flying them and fighting with them entirely another....
Against the Israeli’s? Nobody.
They’ll probably try to TAXI them out of the country to keep them from being blown out of the sky by the superior Israeli birdmen.
I have heard that the AA-11/R-73 “Archer” is a better
air-to-air missile than our sidewinder. I don’t if this
is still the fact. Its not the platform, its the missile that
is the difference.
Also, Russia has been working on a huge naval base in Syria
for years....Tartus just north of the Lebanon border:
http://www.hindu.com/2006/06/05/stories/2006060504281600.htm