Well the worlds gonna be dead due to natural disasters pretty soon anyway so who cares! bring on global warming! the real weapon of mass destruction.

for some one like bolivia id go with cheap and cheerful and invest in the army instead.

airpower would be pretty much useless in a jungle environment.

At the time of the ATF competition, Northrop was running the B-2A development program. They had major cost overruns, schedule slips and the B-2A never met its RCS requirement until the USAF relaxed the requirement. Even today (15 years later), B-2A has major RCS problems with cracks in the scrim tape they use to hide panel joints.

On the other hand, Lockheed was running the F-117A program. They met the target cost, delivered on schedule and met their RCS requirements.

It really doesn’t make sense to claim that the USAF would chose the inferior product for their premier air dominance fighter. Next you’ll be claiming Michael Schumacher was forced to drive a Ferrari at the Monaco Grand Prix instead of his beloved Yugo. :rolleyes:

Glass scrim?

just wondering it would be amazing if something as fundamental as glass scrim was one of the contributing factors to the lower the anticipated RCS reduction in the B-2A

excellent news!

Am i right in thinking that all this still needs to go through congress for approval?

Well, if the US industry works on it you can count on that. The brits are more reasonable though.

YEAY WE SPEND NON!

And what!

lmao some peoples! honestly!

its not like they are paying $60mln of backhanders or for complete contrived ****, and the production aircraft from HAL do have difference systems and maybe even structural parts then those from Russia.

Just a question though, is HAL replacing siffners, ribs, stringers, wing skins with composite ones?

It bought the F-4 and a few other aircraft i am sure.

What is the point in talking about it?

until the LCA comes out into IOC its a white elephant.

I think the BRF guys need to give up the ghost and be a bit more realistic now.