I can’t always believe there’s always a war starting up. We always have to face, Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc. It’s always the Israel people that kills 10,000s people like when they were ordered to strike a bomb in Syria. They killed like i don’t know 50? In the Syria bombing? Quick guess. Also it’s always a terrorist from Iraq or Syria etc, That has always has to start a stupid war, that involves killing people etc. I seriously don’t know what’s going with this world. It’s a world with killing, drugs, beating people up, wars.

“We” don’t always have to face anyone. “We” had to face Nazi Germany, we don’t have to face a few people armed with AK-47s, an out of date Stinger Missile sitting on the back of a clapped out Toyota Hilux. It’s countries like the US and UK sticking their firkin noses into other people’s business that starts a chain reaction of cr*p. Unfortunately, war is big business… Anyway, that is slightly off topic.

If the No Fly Zones are enforced over Syria, providing the current plan is in place, the number of aircraft taking part would be minimal. Besides, the US and UK or whomever wouldn’t want to be operating anywhere near any S-200 placements… that could be embarrassing.

Does anyone want to talk about Modern Military Aviation instead of something you lot have no clue about? It’s an Aviation Forum after all, the clue is in the title…

One of the key future enhancements for the Eurofighter combat aircraft has moved a step closer to becoming reality, after BAE Systems performed a trial installation of an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar with a test example of the aircraft.

“Working in partnership with the Euroradar consortium, test aircraft IPA5 is undergoing a modification and upgrade programme in order to support the E-scan development programme,” says BAE, which has released a first image of the combination in work at its Warton site in Lancashire.

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/picture-aesa-radar-clears-trial-fit-with-eurofighter-387060/

Are you kidding me,

UK, Germany, Spain and Italy, all 4 eurofighter operators could fly a typhoon to paris in less than 1 hour. Don’t tell me they can’t bring a single operational Typhoon to one of the biggest Airshow in Europe and fly a demo during the 2 public days ?

That’s really sad.

Perhaps they’ve got more important things to worry about. It’s no big deal.

Todays Tweet, up to now, by Nat Makepeace:

“Just been assessing a simulator, now off to fly a 1 v 1 to look at ID systems in the latest standard of Typhoon.”

Negative coverage?

What is that exactly?

The premise of this thread is that Argentina gets a defence budget in line with the global average.

In that scenario, the strategic planners of the airforce would put a shopping list together.

They would, as stated in that post, base this on likely conflict points, which would obviously incorporate the Falklands, and the lessons learned from that campaign, whether you think this would lead to “negative coverage” or not.
It’s their job.
It’s what they get a salary for.

Basing a buy on a war they started by invading another country’s property is going to receive a negative impact on them. What you’re saying is, is that they’ll be purchasing aircraft capable enough to reach and threaten The Falkland Islands, something which doesn’t belong to them and have no right to claim, to put it in simple terms. What sort of storm is that going to create for themselves…

from the Argentine perspective, you could argue that the British presence in The Falklands is a threat

In what way exactly is the British presence a threat?

Fixed the bold bit for you by the way.

Well than, why did the person or pilot mounted the AIM-120s beside the AIM-9x?

For air show purposes probably.

Does it have DSI?… :dev2:

What a pity ! It will be the first time my brother come to this airshow. I wanted him to see the best aircraft, including Typhoon and Su-35.
Did they give a reason ? 🙁

There’s been nothing mentioned regarding why, I learned this from Nat Makepeace. If I’d hazard a guess why; IPA units tend to be at air shows performing displays most of the time but at the moment the IPAs are doing a lot of testing especially with Nat, and going by his recent tweets, other Test Pilots as well as himself have been having a lot of meetings regarding these testing phases. He also hinted at IPA5 being in the hanger with an E-Scan. So, I guess IPA units are too busy to go to air shows at the moment. Other frontline Typhoons, who knows. That’s my guess anyway.

Speaking of testing with Nat Makepeace.

“Hopefully off on some 2 vs 1 air-to-air testing at P1e (b) shortly…..”