Originally Posted by
cokecan
we shall see if this goes any further, but while its all worth a good laugh at Argentina 'upgrading' to a aircraft everyone else has scrapped, a dozen Kfir with an AESA radar and a handful of BVRAAM's would run our four Typhoons - unless they can be in 6 different places at once - ragged.
Any offence air campaign that starts with 'buy some aircraft' is unlikely to achieve any level of tactical surprise. Should they ever get to the point of having a dozen Kfirs serviceable, fully armed, with trained crews and some kind of hostile intent I just cannot see how they would trouble a Typhoon. The Typhoon driver would have no good reason to allow a Kfir to get anywhere near missile engagement parameters - even if the Kfir could find and track a Typhoon without giving the game away.
Meanwhile a Typhoon pilot could happily use his considerable dry-power speed / energy advantage, datalink/ESM/Pirate and at least 2Nm altitude advantage to drive his aircraft and chuck his missiles anywhere he pleases.
No doubt the Book of Samuel is included with every Kfir but a victory by David is still doubtful.