yea definitely agree with you. with the right CONOPS on the Super Hornet, it will excel in the future. however the super hornet will indeed be effective and excel in air superiority with JHMCS, AIM-9x, AIM-120D, APG-79, maneuverability, slow speed handiling and a good pilot. This is what the super hornet will do good in for the next air to air warfare in the next coming years.

That’s the part I don’t agree on, and is my point. It’s the last thing you want when in WVR or BVR combat with another air-superiority fighter. The Super Hornet isn’t known to have superior kinetic performance, but it lacks in kinetic performance it makes up for the other areas mentioned.

But in BVR and WVR this is where the super hornet definitely excels in air superiority, i’d rather take the super hornet in WVR combat. But still pretty damn good in BVR too, with APG-79 radar and its reduced RCS, the enemy won’t see the super hornet from a long distance and super gets first shot if it recives meteor.

It depends on what aircraft the Super Hornet is up against. Super Hornet isn’t going to be getting Meteor in my opinion.

although the super hornet isn’t a true stealth fighter, but lacks full stealth on the super hornet. Pretty much is why Boeing is proposing the stealth hornet but also increasing supers survivability and capabilities.

Personally, I don’t buy into Boeing’s “Stealth” claims of the “Silent Hornet” and “Silent Eagle”. Reduced RCS, I can give the benefit of the doubt, Stealth. No way.

although i’m pretty sad the f-16 won’t be in service anymore. 🙁 it will be replaced by the f-35, but hopefully the f-35 can do the requirements the f-16 had 🙂

Well, the F-35 has a lot to worry about, technical issues, unknown costs, reduced capability of operational units and programme is far from complete. I’d say the F-16 is going to be with us quite a long time yet.

…market is chinas!

Yeah, I can see the rest of the world dropping out of American and European programmes to buy Chinese. Sarcasm by the way.

super hornet does dominate air superiority, but in order to dominate air superiority from the super hornet is JHMCS, AIM-9x, AIM-120D, APG-79 AESA Radar, Good pilot, maneuverability and slow speed handiling.

Indeed, all of those I agree with, apart from slow speed handling. When you’re up against another air superiority fighter be it in WVR or BVR, the last thing the pilot wants is slow speed handling.

I had to double take at first, hehe.

About Captor-E, there’s three, I think variants fits the description, of the AESA. ‘Radar-1’, ‘Radar-2’ and ‘Radar-3’. Basically, Radar-1 for export, Radar-2 to meet the four consortium member requirements, and Radar-3 to meet the UK’s requirements which is built on Britain’s Bright Adder AESA radar.

O yeah i forgot to mention why does it do that? It’s Bugers with two G’s o well al least name them Bugers 🙂

Well, it’s a little bit better than the “Fighting C*cks”.

Don’t you mean Toan, Spitefire9?

And indeed. The time is now if they want any more sales. There’s an AESA road map, just needs that little thing called ‘Funding’.

P.S. Thanks for explaining, Scorpion82.

There was a couple of Hawker Hunters at the Sunderland Air Show last year. Great to watch, and have terrific sound too. With the jet noise and their way of resisting the airflow (if that makes any sense), they sound like a ’70s Formula 1 car at high revs. Well, they do to me anyway. 🙂

The “Tomcatters” existed long before there was such a thing as an F-14 Tomcat.

Can be traced back to July 1935. I used to have a book about their history, went up to 1999.