BTW, the first interview with Asma Al-Assad. Quite an interesting talk with a beautiful and well educated woman. Spread herword,cozi have very strong doubts your ‘free’ Western media will showsomething similar.

Perhaps because it’s her first interview in 8 years – as mentioned in the first seconds of the video.

Here is her husband (the actual President of Syria) being interview by the BBC last year:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31311895

There are other types of inlets. You didn’t mention the F-105’s type.

You have to see the forward swept inlet of the F-105 at a few angles to appreciate it’s flexibility.

S-ducts!! And an internal weapons bay. The world’s first stealth fighter-bomber?

D’assault baguette has an awesome history of doing it alone, all the way from the first to fourth gen modern aircraft. will they make a manned follow on to the Rafale?
Will the British do something? While they haven’t produced something on their own in a while, research wise they got closer with the BAe Replica and are a 1st tier partner for the F-35

Perhaps the UK and France shoul work together: British French joint projects seem to always go well, historically speaking. Concorde, Sepecat Jaguar, Martel missile, etc.

I highly doubt either payload or range is much better on the Kfir vs Cheetah C. The J-79 thrust is not much greater than the Atar 9K50C-11 and the Cheetah has an extented fuselage like the F-1. And the Cheetah has canards, so all that together would mean they are close to equal.

Just plucking figures of the internet:
Kfir C7 was powered with a version of the J79 that produced 18,750 lbf (83.4 kN). ATAR on the Cheetah C produced 15,900 lbf (71 kN)

The Cheetah C empty weight as quoted on Wiki is hopelessly inaccurate. I have its true empty weight.
In fact, the weight given there corresponds to the “official” weight given for the Nesher.
The Nesher is to all intents a Mirage 5. Which has an official empty weight half a ton heavier.;)

This is exactly why I distrust the “official” weight given for the Kfir, and all it’s additions, never mind the Nesher.

If one looks at the Nesher being a Mirage 5, then the large additional changes changes that were done to the Kfir would show an empty weight much higher than the figure normally bandied about.
Then looking further at the Kfir C10 and the Cheetah C, with their further structural additions, and internal multirole avionics….about the most honest figure I’ve seen given publically is for the Cheetah C.

Of course, we get to the issue of what exactly constitutes “empty” weight.

If we haven’t got accurate figures for each aircraft and we can’t trust what we are given, whats the point in trying to make a true comparison? Ultimately, if the Kfir has a greater payload and range, it can be excused for having a greater empty weight, surely?

Books.. My best bet is Squadron/Signal, I don’t remember it all, anymore…
The performance was better, right, but balance and handling were terrible. Compared to ATAR, the J79 was short, heavy and positioned way too aft..

It musn’t have been that bad – the US Navy used it as an aggressor for many years.

I am saying that it was classified as light strike fighter because it was otherwise a disappointment.. a truly POS fighter.. Created by a company with zero design experience, disliked by its crews, with not really fine-tuned handling and with the EL/M-2001 radar certainly not very useful, either..

where did you get all this info? It seems to me that the Kfir has had quite a few satisfied customers around the world, and certainly the use of the J79 motor instead of the ATAR should have improved performance somewhat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Kfir#The_Kfir_in_foreign_service

What was the turbofan engine?

A South African Mirage F1 was tested with the RD-33 from the MiG-29.