Really? Most of what I’ve seen has been “we’ll have to figure that out”. Also if the US has been so consistently saying they’d all be identical why has everybody been doing so much screaming for literally years?

Really… read the article – its stated not once, but twice!

I think your getting mixed up between access to, and separate standards of, equipment.

(your thinking of the source codes row – this is different)

So you’ve seen the contracts? No? Then how do you know anything about what they’re getting vs what was agreed to?

Is that why the Pentagon has previously been at pains to point out every JSF sent to partner nations will be identical to the US one? :rolleyes:

Just wonderin like?

So I’m assuming you’ve looked over the contracts and can verify that the US is in breach of contract? Or do you just have your panties in a wad because everybody is getting what was agreed upon in the contracts?

After years of claiming that all partner countries of the Joint Strike Fighter would receive identical aircraft

However, reference to US National Disclosure Policy clearly implies that it has proved impossible to deliver on the Pentagon’s promise that countries participating in the JSF program would obtain full access to all the technology of the US version, including the avionics source codes that sparked a major row with the United Kingdom in 2005-2006.

and

The Nov. 15 release explains that the purpose of this “Delta SDD” contract is to “to develop a version of the JSF Air System that meets U.S. National Disclosure Policy, but remains common to the U.S. Air System, where possible.”

Explain these three quotes from that piece if the US is doing everything fairly and above board. :rolleyes:

That’s the word: cost efficient. In other words, it doesn’t cost much to lease them, or at least, in the short term, their budgets look better when they lease transport planes.

The cost of operating them will be reflected in their hire costs. The hiring company is not going to stand there and take the hit on maintenance!

Have you seen ONE C-17 offered for lease by a civilian operator? No.

Because the IL-76 can do 95% of the job for… 30% (?) of the price?

As you say – cost efficient.

The C-17 is expensive, but technologically, it is a good leap ahead of the competition (and it is allowed to land about anywhere, in opposition to most IL-76, which would trigger calls from angry neighbours)

I assume your talking about noise?

If it were a big issue, operators would have asked Ilyushin to re-engine the -76 with higher BPR turbofans.

edit: Already done:

An agreement was sign in 2003 to begin IL-76 modernization, combining the resources of Volga-Dnepr, the SV Ilyushin Aviation complex, TAPO (Tashkent VP Chkalov Aviation- Industrial Association) and the Perm engine works. In 2003, VDG financed production of the first of two upgraded IL-76TD-90VD aircraft. In March 2005, the first IL-76TD-90VD was fitted with Perm PS-90A-76 engines, the aircraft successfully performing its first test flight in August 2005. [The second aircraft is currently being completed at the Tashkent factory, a third aircraft is underway for Silk Way which already operates nine IL-76s]. [1] In January 2006, the IL-76TD-90VD was awarded a Chapter 4 noise certificate confirming that the aircraft complies with the requirements of AP-36 Aviation Rules for level 4 aircraft and ICAO annex 16, Chapter 4 standards. [2]

here

3. is there any trace of stealth in the fighters you mentioned?

It is not very expensive to simulate radar returns on a computer. After all, it is only a boundary element method that is needed.

The most expensive parts of an aircraft are its engines and avionics, while the US had to build prototypes to verify their findings, the Russians have already tested full scale models*. I assume they have already calibrated their models and worked accordingly.

*Can’t remember where I read it, I think it was some of the random statements from Russian news that pop up here from time to time.

If you need motivating to play 100% for your country, the player needs to take a good long look at himself.

Thats not the managers fault!

Likewise there are drivers of Ford Ka’s and similar sized vehicles who aren’t safe being allowed out in their cars. Regardless of vehicle size there are some drivers who should not even be allowed out on a pushbike, in fact I wouldn’t trust some of them with a wheelless wheelbarrow they’d still be a danger to themselves and the community.

Yeap – but you’ll do more damage to others in one of those leviathans than a ford ka (or wheelless wheelbarrow :D)