MacCaulay
Banned
You're now drifting the topic to pilot training rather than aircraft effectiveness which is the thread title.
The Meteor was inferior but the pilot quality was simply far too extreme, you're talking about 300+ hours verus at most 30 hours of training. That's not a condition any airforce wants to count on. It doesn't make the Meteor the right fighter to go up against MiG-15s.
I know it's muddying the waters, but aircraft never engage in a bubble and you've got to remember that. The kind of countries that would have the opportunity to buy the Hunter would have better pilots training programs because that's what goes along with Western equipment.
A book that talks about Soviet aid and the tangential things that go along with it would be Phoenix over the Nile by Lon Nordeen, which focuses alot on the relationship between the Egyptian Air Force and the Soviets and how the Egyptians felt that the Soviets were hiding so much from them that they actually created an alternate flying school with the Pakistanis and other Middle Eastern countries.