WOW, on one hand I am “ignorant” of the Typhoon Performance. Then the next sentence you make the unbelieve claim that the Typhoon can carry TWO EXTERNAL FUEL TANKS AND NO LESS THAN EIGHT AIR TO AIR MISSILES. ALL WITH NO PERFORMANCE PENALTY!
Talk about laughable………….and I am the ignorant one? PLEASE:p
I tried to stay away from this circus of a forum, i really did but this one takes the cake.
If wing commander Nigel whateverhisnameis had said I could believe that he either really thought that was the case or another Typhoon fan boy was making things up. But for you to quote him as saying that there is is just sheer idiocy. What? Has Typhoon found some way to defy the laws of physics? Are you trying to tell me that two tanks and a gaggle of missiles hanging off of a wing impose absolutely no drag penalty?
Yes the Typhoon has wonderful performance. Yes the Typhoon will outperform fighters designed and built 30 years earlier in some categories. But now here is the big but. It does not change the game. It’s margins of performance in the areas that it excels are not enough to overcome an outdated radar and medium range missiles. It is still going to come down to training and the circumstances of the engagement. It is not a quantum leap ahead like F-22 and F-35. Bolt ons and upgrades to F-16 and F-15 make them easily a match and the Super Hornet in many ways it’s contemporary is miles ahead of it in things that matter.
Write something intelligent and back it with with facts and I may reply. Otherwise don’t bother.
OBVIOUSLY, he did not mean in the strictest sense. I don’t understand how you two could not interpret a simple statement, quite astonishing. Why are you even on this forum if all you do is make trouble and “rubbish” threads?
nhampton, I’m pretty sure a quote from a chap flying the plane is some evidence.
Well done guys, another awesome thread. x2 ignored.
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