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  • January 1, 2004 at 3:38 pm in reply to: China to aquire Tu-22M3 backfire?! #2678204
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    Assuming that the Chinese could find it

    Many of you are assuming that the Chinese would have the recon ability to find a CVBG.

    Having Backfires does not magically grant you the ability to find a carrier battle group and the US Navy isn’t about to advertise it’s position.

    At the height of the Cold war Russian maintained a variety of tools to help detect carrier battle groups and doing so was not guaranteed.

    Does China have that kind of recon ability?

    It’s one thing to have the weapon. It’s another thing to be able to use it.

    December 25, 2003 at 4:29 pm in reply to: Joint Strike Fighter Still Grapples With Extra Weight #2682182
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    Re: what?

    Originally posted by PILOTGHT
    as agile as a f16?

    dream on!

    What’s the scientific basis for that opinion?

    I have yet to see or hear anything in the press to suggest that the F-35 is any more or less agile than an F-16.

    December 17, 2003 at 2:34 pm in reply to: India picks Rafale M over MiG-29K2? #2687722
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    I thought French carriers used US made catapults to launch Rafales.

    Are US catapults on the Indian shopping list for the Gorshkov?

    December 17, 2003 at 2:29 pm in reply to: no respect for the Gripen #2687726
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    Re: RE: no respect for the Gripen

    Originally posted by Allah U Akbar
    A Gripen in the hands of a PAF pilot, and guided by the hand of Allah would have been an invincible machine.

    I would think that anything guided by the hand of [insert your deity here] would be invincible.

    December 17, 2003 at 2:25 pm in reply to: Platform for Future AWACS. #2687748
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    The 767 is the more likely candidate for the US.

    Not that wise to bank on using the 7E7 when there is still the likelihood that it may never fly.

    In the last few years Boeing has canceled both the Sonic Cruiser and the 747X.

    They’ve only announced the intention to build the 7E7 recently. It is in many respects still a paper airplace despite all the hype.

    December 14, 2003 at 2:18 pm in reply to: NEWS FLash- Saddam possibly captured! #2690028
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    Catching him walking and talking is definitely better if they really do have him. It will put any doubts to rest that they truly have th right man.

    December 5, 2003 at 5:17 pm in reply to: Finally found: Boeing mod. 908 & Vought V-1100 –> F-16 !! #2695153
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    Great stuff. That must have been quite hard to find.

    I actually tought about writing to Boeing and Vought to get more information on those proposals for the F-16 section on my web site.

    December 3, 2003 at 4:46 am in reply to: Fighter Size in War and Peace #2696141
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    Cost not weight

    If anything, I think lighter fighters are more intended to fill out the numbers of aircraft rather than the weights.

    The USAF knew that they could never afford the F-15 in numbers that were needed so they compromised and eventually accepted the F-16. The same is true for the F/A-22 and F35.

    Since weight is a pretty good indicator of cost for aircraft, the only way that the USAF could fill out the necessary numbers was to go with lighter, hence cheaper aircraft.

    Cost it seems to me is the mitigating factor even at the height of the Cold war.

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