Wow that is a very unique camo scheme! 😮

would be very hard to see against a mountainous backdrop

BAck to topic,

ShinShin is a really good sized aircraft for Korea,
If Japan is willing, I think it would be nice “East Asian Eurofighter”?,

Heck, even SAC’s recent self funded design if my guess is correct, should be in the same class. and layout is remarkablly similar to shinshin,
so,
why not have a tri-lateral fighter consortium. there is no point to waste more money and time. nice alternative to F-35. may be even make some money while at it.

One may fantasize SK and Japan cooperating on a light stealth fighter, maybe even include India into the fray to make it a Asian fighter, but seriously SAC ? with Japan ? aren’t you stretching it too far ?

perfect sense? for what? not English, not even aviation, because it’s not my major.

I know that will be hard to understand, if I expressed so indirectly. Sorry no more time to write thousands words, especially, with English.

repeat three milestones:
1) to absorb (this word sounds like for liquid to me whereas the ‘suck’ for gas ) boundary layer by tiny holes which be fractional on a sloped surface.
2) the boundary layer be blown or say swept by shockwave which generated by a structure waverider alike.
3) making the slope to be a profile by waverider theory which can be used to extrude the boundary layer out of surface.

My English is too poor to understand, yes, then abort, there is nothing important. :p

Its better this way 🙂 Even if we understand bits of what you are trying to convey, it is still very informative.

Another done deal in doubt…
The UAE may opt for more F-16s instead of Rafales!
http://defensenews.com/story.php?i=7022074&c=MID&s=AIR

Arm twisting by UAE ?

IAF jaguars routinely practice very low level flights. low enough for observers on high ground (hillocks and such) to see them pass below eye level. so I guess that should be around 30 ft.

Any picture of that would be awesome 🙂

Not sure what you mean by that, but if you’re saying the chinese military community would lap his work up… well not exactly from where I’ve seen. Less sceptical than the western community is but BS is BS in any culture.
I personally don’t write off everything he and APA have released just because it’s him.

Trolls are there in every culture. The way Carlo Kopp mixes open source intel with his “analysis”, he makes for a really good troll fertilizer.

Where will the arms race in SEA lead to twenty years from now? We need to stop exporting the leaping stones in technology. The balance of power was much more tenable when the superpowers held back their ace cards. If the US exports F-35 then I certainly hope it’s without ToT.

ToT is less about total transfer of critical technologies and actual designs than it is about developing the local industry by establishing vendors, quality control mechanisms and up-gradation of manufacturing process. You may argue that the experienced of the OEM, gained over a period of decades is a “sensitive technology” in itself, but then it is transferred to “friendly” nations only.

Am i missing something here..
Is there an FX III tender Going on now:confused:

“Korea has purchased 60 of the F-15s from Boeing, which won both the FX-I and II projects in 2002 and 2008”.

Yes there is a considerable chatter over KFX-3 for Korea, (FX-3 the reiteration of Brazilian tender is basically just unsubstantiated rumors)