"Hobo" wrote in message
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"Keith Willshaw" wrote:

You are in error on several points sir.

Iran trains very large numbers of engineers and has done since
the time of the Shah, indeed there's a very large demand for engineers

Gen. Musharaf's own brother is an aneasthelogist working in Chicago.

Thats hardly likley to help PAC retrofit F-16's


It is very easy for a Paki to move here and work for a defense contractor
and oops, I downloaded the wrong file my mistake, it won't happen again.

Its scarcely that easy for any foreigner as I know.

Its not the same for Iranians. An Iranian who comes here and tries to
work at a defense contractor will be suspected at every turn.


Which says nothing about the abilty of Iranian engineers

to all in general:

I was wrong about Pak having 4x as many people, its 2x. However, their
bagpipers really are very good. You can download Pak bagpipe mp3s and
hear for yourself.


No thanks the Jocks are bad enough.

I don't believe Iran can outpace Pak in technology. I also believe that
getting the Sparrows to work is *more* important for Pak than getting
the Phoenix was/is to Iran. Pak is screwed against India without a BVR
threat.

Iran has had an indigenous aircraft industry for 20 years, Pakistan has only
recently achieved that status and frankly if it comes to a shooting
war against India Pakistan is screwed anyway as the last 2 wars
show. As for Iran, at the time they got the Phoenix working they
were involved in a war with Iraq in which they lost more people than
the total US losses in WW1 and WW2. I'd say they were pretty
motivated.

Keith