On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 01:51:40 GMT, Gene Storey wrote:
"phil hunt" wrote

I wonder why SA bought them?

Excellent question. Saudis buy things just to have the best,

All the more reason why they wouldn't accept an inferiour version.

The Saudis are staunch anti-communists, and would never purchase a
product from a communist. Today, they would very likely buy Russian,
as most Russian planes are built to NATO specs (AGE, etc).

Russians weren't (by-and-large) communists in 1995. Certainly the
govmt wasn't.

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