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Originally Posted by Oberon
The Turks aren't stupid, they've got enough on their hands with Assad, this was a storm in a tea cup really. Although the Syrians probing Cypress is an interesting turn. Hope it's not in preparation for Assad doing something stupid because an attack on an RAF base, no matter who is using it, would likely drag us into any war with Syria.
In regards to the F-16 vs Eurofighter...well...
Although to be fair, exercise kills are pretty worthless unless the ROE is known, although this is a very interesting picture:
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/mt/flightglobalweb/blogs//the-dewline/ea18g_f22kill.jpg
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It would have been a good example of facing a different platform.Still Going with the tangibles the EF Typhoon has higher agility and it also has the infrared sensor which gives them a big AOA advantage with IR missiles.The Turkish F-16s do not have this and they may not even have been the latest fully kitted out block 50/52 models either.