Originally Posted by
Asturias56
" I am just really uncomfortable with selling the Arab world a bunch of tier 1 shiny kit..... History shows us that it doesn't take much to fall out with countries that were once allies, and there's a lot of that history in the Middle East."
No-one has mentioned all those shiny Tomcats sold to the Shah.................... but it's all politics - a few aircraft aren't going to suddenly make the UAE a major force in anyway
But Asturias, they (the Tomcats) weren't sold to Arabs, they were sold to Persians.
