@Swerve & EELightining

7K euros+ for the the Ti MTB lol but that one doesn’t do winters!

The winter ride is a front sus steel tandem 😀
because it looks like that now :

and will until spring but colder :

and the street are laced with salt so …

let’s be reasonable, hum, lol. :rolleyes:

Sigh :

To say nothing of AESA, which the AdlA won’t have until 2014.

Strange ’cause :

The aircraft is to be qualified in 2012.

June 2011 in here :
http://defesaglobal.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/357/

Le nouveau radar RBE-AESA à antenne active de Thales équipera le M34, qui sera livré en 2012

June 2011 in here :
http://www.meretmarine.com/article.cfm?id=116586

Deliveries are scheduled from mid-2013 to end 2019.

June 2011 in here :
http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/feature/5/126031/**france-readies-rafale-upgrade-for-2012.html#

But you still call it 2014 and proceed to answer next with the extremely argumented “garbage”?
Tskk, things don’t change, it seems. :rolleyes:

@Spitfire YVW.
Heck mate, why not Gripens scattered around?

I mean as the NG can be financed or almost
in such a situation, I thought that right now,
if you want to buy a fighter cheap cheap it’s the
J-17/JF-17 .., and bang for the buck, Gripen. 🙂

@TR1
Micro-economics you know, 😉 “It ain’t just fer 3rd world!”

Good night all, Tay.

RIP and unlimited thanks for the brilliant work, Ken. 🙁

@RN Phantom

The weight was the limiting factor in most Rafale
design decisions. If you go folding, you go heavier;
it’s pretty much unavoidable.
In addition, “non-folding” wings minimize differences
on the production line and thus keep costs down, yes.

@EElightning

Yup, MTBs but we* just switched to the rather utilitarian
mountain tandem that serves as our winter main steed.
Which allowed me last week to service a machine made
of Titanium, Magnesium, Vanadium, Chromium, Kevlar,
carbon fiber, composites and the odd bit of good ol’ steel …
😀 almost the same ingredients’ list as our fighters.

* ‘Got a son to lug around 🙂

Ouch! Found that on ye olde HD :

Snif, nice work but all for naught!

@ppp, alas memory is the aptitude to forget …

you could have remembered my talks with NG76,
French yes but I live in Québec, lol …
so snow down on the ground for the next 4-5 months 😀

Good day all, Tay.

Whom is “India”?

And who the heck has common sense? 😀

OK, sorry, going out for a walk in the snow! 😮

@MrMalaya

That edge was there in both “camps” since.. huh …
the beginning, 😀

The Typhoon is not the best fighter ever for having
been sold or EF stating that “nothing comes close”.
Inversely, the Rafale is not the worst fighter ever for
not having won an export yet.
We both know that all sensible posters can adhere to
these points. What posters outside that category, i.e.
sensible, go for should simply be called and forgotten …
until next time they do 😀