Here’s some recent ‘shots in the dark’ from the authority that is F-16.net, enjoy: …and my favourite:

Yeah that last one is my favourite too.

f-16.net…Home of the trolls!

There is PLENTY of room for four Meteor in EACH F-35 bay. One on the ‘trapeze/air-to-air’ station, two on the ‘air-to-ground’ station & one on the outer door. Keep in mind that the bays are long enough to stagger the missiles…

I find that very hard to believe that there is plenty of room for four Metors in each F-35 bay! Two, yes, no problem. Three…Hmm at a push but I doubt it. Four, I very much doubt it no matter how well you organise them, can’t help but think that if theres four Meteors or AMRAAMs in each bay, they’re going to be ending up twating one another when fired. saying that, I maybe wrong but whats wrong with just having two Meteors in each bay? More would be nice but four is okay and besides, don’t want too much weight to luggage around especially when the F-35 is heavy enough as it is.

Found this, might be a step towards a thawing in the source code wars – wondering if anyone has a clue how this equates to othe rannouncements made recently about UK access to F-35 source code:

Oh god!…That article sounds like the US is trying to tell & sell a sympathy story…:rolleyes:

no one of the rafale/EF/gripen countries will never build a “5 gen” fighter.. it will go for a 6 gen. Meaning: no pilot…this is beond 2030…may be some neuron derivate for a-to-g in small numbers.

Well I don’t know about France or Sweden, but the UK will always have proper pilots, (and not always have some person in a shirt & tie sitting in a office flying his whatever it’ll be), in its aeroplanes, yes they’ll have unmanned too but they’ll have pilots in the actual fighter/bomber. I’m aware they’ve made it clear on a few occasions. As I said before I’d happily place a bet on the next aircraft to replace Typhoon to be manned.

I believe Europe could do something like the PAK-FA etc, but as someone else pointed out, why the need. Europe has the brains and know-how and if anyone thinks otherwise then they’re just rather silly, and maybe they have the money, I believe they do, but, they just want to spend it on more important things and they’re hardly going to have a meeting around a table and decide; ‘Hmmm? Where can we spend our money? We could bulid & open new universities? No? ok. Hospitals, schools, new military bases?…Better equipment for our troops in Afghanistan? They could do with new gear? No? Ok…Ohh I know, lets spend the money on a brand new super duper stealth fighter!!!!! Done!!!

Hardly going to happen in the real world.

For a sixth time: All available and future (known that is) stealth aircraft DO NOT have canards. You say no and claim it’s debatable. No problem, I rest my case.

…have a nice day.

Actually…Those stealth fighters from the movie, ‘Stealth’ have canards, don’t they! There you go, I rest my case…Have a nice day! :diablo:

Please don’t take this post seriously! 😀

China? I’m not too sure wheither China will have something “stealthy” anytime soon, I’m not saying they can’t do it, not at all, I think they’re just as capable as doing something like this just as anyone, I just have a gut feeling that they’ll just purchase PAK-FA’s and go on from there…Why not. I maybe wrong though and a bit of me is hoping I am because I’d like to see China take their own root.

Japan? Again they’re a clever bunch…But I think the Yanks would have something to do with it…What I mean by that is, “make them” change their mind and buy something American…Yanks seem to be quite good at that I’m affraid. And again I hope I’m wrong about that too as I would really REALLY like to see Japan come up with something and take their own root, I’m sure it’ll look quite dramatic like something from a Manga animated movie.

Any country in Europe? I think they’ll/we’ll come up with something by working together like has been done with the Tornado and Typhoon, I believe the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain (with France maybe?) would want to work together again to come with something to replace the Typhoon and I’d happily bet it’d be a manned aircraft, think of a Typhoon with no tail-fin, flat as you can get air-frame with canards blending into the its delta wing, that’d look rather dandy I think with its TV engines. I believe its safe to say it’d be something like that.

My 2 pennies worth.

Well, once it demonstrates that it matches the F-22, then we’ll have something to discuss. Till then, feel free to speculate.:p

Well, it can take off, I guess thats a start. :p