Last week, while carrying my Orange 4×12 amplifier cabinet, which weights 100+lbs, I knackered the bicep tendon in my right arm which resulted in affecting my hand and fingers, very painful and most importantly, affecting my guitar playing. However, got a bit of that massage stuff done by G… my employer, and persevered & got on with playing the remainder of the shows.

On the flip side, great few gigs of the last part of the small UK tour (for now at least), intimate gigs are much better than the bigger ones. Back home this morning, back to work on Monday… Or Tuesday.

…but it will never be a good air superiority fighter (slow cruise speed, insufficient maneuverability) and its CAS capability is nonexistent. It also can’t function as the interceptor due to low missile loadout and low top speed.

Gets into DeLorean Time Machine, Flux Capacitor ready, time circuits set to: 20/08/1978, accelerates to 88mph, bright flash, flaming skid marks left behind, Flash-Boom-Whoooosh! GREAT SCOT!!!*… Re-appears moments later in similar fashion albeit Back to the Future of 01/07/2014… Yes, many, many people said the exact same things about the Harrier!

Ta-Ta!
Rock on, Marty McFly!

And United States are Roman Empire 2.0, and Russian Federation is Tsarist Russia 2.0…

Like I said to Nic, ‘Uuurgh. Your opinion is irrelevant on a Typhoon forum.’

Anyhow…

Regarding Captor-E and Tranche 1 units; I didn’t really think this Tranche would be looked at to be modified for Captor-E, pretty much assumed it’d only be Tranche 3 units and a few Tranche 2 units. Quite an interesting development.

It did win the “competition” – it was selected.

I’m aware of it, however, context, the way those sources were reporting was that the F-35 was all but out of the competition, ‘no’ full purchases, ‘no’ reduced unit purchases, ‘no’ split buys as what it came down to in the end, the simple fact of the matter was they made themselves look rather silly be claiming it was is/going to be an outright win for the F-15SE, of which they were adamant. One remembers the reports Slowman was posting endlessly stating such claims, and they were considered to be rather “well informed” sources, too. Someone within those made a bit of mess.

Oh and, Lukos. Talk about “respect”, it ends where one flushes away what is put to them, respect was lost for you long before the name calling and I’m not the only one on here that has lost it for you. The number of members that have made it obvious speaks volumes, doesn’t it not. (There’s an insult referring to you in there somewhere, figure it out.)

Ta!

Can’t be arsed and it’s still inconclusive because it doesn’t say whether they’re for the RAF or RSAF.

Or… You don’t want to be corrected more like.

I wasn’t aware that you work in RAF logistics, Mr. Bull.

Nope, numb-nuts. One is just quite a bit more up to speed than you.

And it nearly did. If you remember the F-35 was eliminated from the first competition on cost and then a last minute problem was found with the Typhoon bid, and then they reopened and LM dropped their price.

Yet the simple fact of the matter is, the F-35 still got selected despite all the positive chatter about the F-15SE and the negative banter of the F-35. Claims, statements and accusations went out of the window at that point the F-35 was officially announced as the winner. ‘Nearly did’ [elimination] is a non-story.

but but but… :dev2:

Seriously, this sounds like a nice upgrade to an already capable aircraft.

Indeed. While TVNs would be a compelling upgrade, one believes that these modifications are much more compelling.

Would you please F88king quit quoting him.

What is the point of an ignore function if people keep circumventing it by quotes?

But it’s ever so much fun. It’s like pistol-whipping a blind toddler. [Not that I’ve ever pistol-whipped a blind toddler].

I’m already up to speed, Queen. 160 is the number already in service. 232 have already been built in the UK but 72 were given to Saudi Arabia.

Hardly. What Swerve and Sintra said, Mr. Brains. Nice try attempting to dig yourself out of gutter though. Not.