The advantage for conformal is more empty wingstations? I don’t think they are replacing wing tanks… I thing they are extra add on range for deep strike…

The dis-advantage is not able to release it when starting a2a…

To replace what? (J6, J7) With J11, MKI, J10 the higher/medium part is filled. There are not many lower replacements. But 1000?

Arrrg, looks awfull! 😮 😡

Now that the F/A-18E/F has lost its reduced stealthness, why not put on wing fences, which also fuction as overwing missille lanchers like Jaguar or Lightning?! 😉

fightingirish

Seems like the F18E/F wing going to have same solutions as the FBC-1…

Well one wonders of Iran is a greater threat than Dr.Khan and his clients for example…

As usual the anti pak comment. Mr Khan is maybe a national hero. Maybe he as contributed in producing enriched uranium. He did just that. The true heroes are sectret and will stay that. There are many other world parties that did more harm then mr Khan. So why pointing at him only… One should remember a very famous sentence of mr Khan… He told how greed made western companies sell anything. They would even sell their mother. In that respect one can say… If mr Khan is attacked. Why not attack those western countries that delivered the goodies… But then again. The cheap defence is that Pakistani exploded Chinees nuclear device… They use foreign missiles… I have read a lot about mr Khan. I think you are terrible wrong Fantasma… I laugh at western ideas. One moment Khadaffi is world terrorist and bio-chemical-nuclear dangerous… The other moment the shake hands on tv… Fantasmatic.

Just tell me Acig member… What do you know about Khan that leads to your conclusions? What would you call him if Turkey was 5 times bigger then Greece. Build atomic weapons and exploded them. It was not signing any treaty. It massed all the troops at your door. Fun. The rules suddenly change.

hmm, has anyone actually seen an FC1 fly without the wingtip AAMs?

weapontesting starts april 2005.

Indian forum opposes F-16 sale to Pakistan

Daily Times Monitor

LAHORE: An Indian forum in the United States opposed any move to sell F-16 fighter aircraft to Pakistan after the presidential elections in November, Press Trust of India (PTI) reported on Friday.

According to the news report, the Indian American Forum for Political Education, in a letter to US President George W Bush, said any such move would be “severely detrimental to the strengthening of Indo-US relations, which has touched an all-time high following efforts by the Bush administration”.

PTI quoted IAFPE president Sudhir Parikh as saying, “Supplying sophisticated fighter aircraft to Pakistan will only stoke the flames of arms race in this region”. [As if India is left behind… It is India that started nuclear tests and still not signs treaty. It is India that bought AWACS. It is India that buy MKI and some 125 more fighters… etc. etc. Somehow I find these one sided remarks of the lobby a bit pathetic]

The letter, however, clarified that the forum was not against economic aid to Pakistan for literacy and other development programmes, the news report said.

According to PTI, Parikh said in the letter that while the IAFPE had supported Bush’s bid for a second term at the White House, “reports of F-16 deliveries to Pakistan would make several members reconsider their endorsement.” He added that the proposed F-16 deliveries would also send a “negative message” to Indians throughout the United States and elsewhere.

Ok, GD. I agree. But there were rumours of first prototype in Pak. Anyway, those that see smoke should buy a new screen…

About the size… Wow. It is small…