22nd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Harrogate, UK, 28 August - 1st September, 2000
Paper ICAS 2000-1.5.3

SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT CHANGE OF FIGHTERS AT AIR FORCE OF THE EAST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

J. Rohacs (1), G. Óvari (2)
(1) Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary; (2) National Defence University, Hungary

Keywords: air force fighter aircraft, eastern europe

The most of the Middle- and East-European countries are in the transition. After change of their political situation, they had a big economical crisis. In this situation they have a great problem of modernisation of their Air Forces. Principally they can modernise their old fighters or they can change them. The lecture describes the basic elements of the aircraft modernisation. It summarises the possibility of modernisation of fighters, type MíG. It defines the future mission and role of fighters. The most interesting question is which type of fighter is the best for given countries. There is no exact answer for this question. The authors have developed special method and characteristics for taking into account the real tasks of given Air Forces. These characteristics are based on the relationship between the probability of solving the cost to total life cycle cost.

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