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:idea2 Zimbabway doesn't even have money to support its Cricket Team let alone buy new fighter jets. :roll
Updated[not true anymore]: Zimbabwa to buy FC-1
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The zimbabwe report was crap or the chinese one??umair said:
Re: Zimbabwa to buy FC-1
I can't believe this, Mugabee has not got a shred of self respect first he Kicks people out of their homes and then goes on a genocidal Rally, and then expects to buy New advance weapons from his Maxed out Two bit credit limit. Zimbabwe would of been so well off if it only had kept its cool like SA. the starvation mass poverty is because of Corruption.
I can't believe this, Mugabee has not got a shred of self respect first he Kicks people out of their homes and then goes on a genocidal Rally, and then expects to buy New advance weapons from his Maxed out Two bit credit limit. Zimbabwe would of been so well off if it only had kept its cool like SA. the starvation mass poverty is because of Corruption.
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Doubts Cast on Supposed Zimbabwean Fighter Order from China
following gf, more confirmation
Doubts Cast on Supposed Zimbabwean Fighter Order from China
LONDON, UK - Reports surfaced earlier in the summer that the Mugabe government had reached a deal with China to buy 12 fighters for the Air Force of Zimbabwe. They cited a June 9 statement in Parliament by the defense ministry's permanent secretary, Trust Maphos, that 12 of the fighters had been ordered and that six would be delivered as early as possibly the next week. This was followed days later by a statement by an opposition party official that 12 Chinese fighters were being ordered.
However, the reportedly $240 million "deal" seems to have since evaporated into thin air. A Chinese official emphatically denied the report of the deal when queries at a press briefing on June 21 in South Africa, calling the report "not true" and "baseless". Both governments have since claimed to have no knowledge of such a deal although there is still speculation that the Zimbabwean government remains interested in such a purchase. Its ability to fund such a purchase is another matter, however, considering the general shortages plaguing the country as a result of the Mugabe government's increasingly irrational economic and political policies.
Local speculation has centered on the Chengdu FC-1 as the fighter in question, but this raises more questions since this model is still in the developmental stage. Still, the Air Force is known to have pursued possible purchase of the older Chengdu F-7MG.
Source: Air Force Monthly
following gf, more confirmation
Doubts Cast on Supposed Zimbabwean Fighter Order from China
LONDON, UK - Reports surfaced earlier in the summer that the Mugabe government had reached a deal with China to buy 12 fighters for the Air Force of Zimbabwe. They cited a June 9 statement in Parliament by the defense ministry's permanent secretary, Trust Maphos, that 12 of the fighters had been ordered and that six would be delivered as early as possibly the next week. This was followed days later by a statement by an opposition party official that 12 Chinese fighters were being ordered.
However, the reportedly $240 million "deal" seems to have since evaporated into thin air. A Chinese official emphatically denied the report of the deal when queries at a press briefing on June 21 in South Africa, calling the report "not true" and "baseless". Both governments have since claimed to have no knowledge of such a deal although there is still speculation that the Zimbabwean government remains interested in such a purchase. Its ability to fund such a purchase is another matter, however, considering the general shortages plaguing the country as a result of the Mugabe government's increasingly irrational economic and political policies.
Local speculation has centered on the Chengdu FC-1 as the fighter in question, but this raises more questions since this model is still in the developmental stage. Still, the Air Force is known to have pursued possible purchase of the older Chengdu F-7MG.
Source: Air Force Monthly
