Taiwan makes pitch for purchase of F-35 fighter jets

Anyway it’s not so simple:

When the United States agreed to upgrade Taiwan’s current fleet of F-16A/B fighter jets in September 2011, it effectively ruled out the sale of the next-generation F-35s, according to Lin.

and

But even if the U.S. approves the sale, the global waiting list is so long that it would take 15-20 years for Taiwan’s order to be delivered, he added.

Anyway I beg your pardon for this post of mine which seems off topic, since the arguments many users proposed for discussion here.
Now you can return to discuss of rovers on mars altogether to discuss TV fictions. :sleeping:

I wasn’t surprised at all. My above statement was how I read the situation from first time I heard about it a week are so ago.

In this case am I right to think that parliament has already given its approval. Are will contract for 90 F35 if its signed by MoD have to go back for another final approval after its signing?

There is also chance that parliament could rescind it’s prior approval before the contract is signed though that seems unlikely.

The Italian Parliament now has a limited “control” function, i.e., it keeps auditing the Italian officers responsible for the program (on average twice per year) to make sure that the acquisition keeps going on consistently to what it approved in 2009, but has no right to put a veto if the acquisition remains consistent.

Who could cut and/or cancel the program is the local Court of Audit (which in Italy is a Judiciary organ) or the Government (in fact, it was the Executive which slashed the previous order from 131 to 90).

When I posted my update I just pointed out this:
while the majority in the Parliament is contrary to the program, the current Government favors it, so for the moment everything will keep going as before, since the President of Italy deliberated that on this matter the Parliament has a limited control power, and therefore the motion approved by the lower chamber last week to stop further acquisitions was void.

My personal point of view is that the number of 90 is too high for Italy, but this is a personal view of mine, and so of little interest for the readers of this particular thread.

Just a quick update on the Italian participation to the program.
Last week a motion passed at the Lower House which stated that the Parliament will have to approve any further stage of F-35 purchase, and that the program will be under review for 6 months.
See Cenciotti’s blog: http://theaviationist.com/2013/06/27/italy-f-35-review/#.UdWncm3X9rM

Yesterday, the Supreme Defense Council, an organism who has as chairman the President of the Italian Republic, clarified that such motion was void, since the approval of a law in the 2012 which disciplined the military acquisition programs for Italy.
The SDC stated that currently, since the Parliament already approved the purchase in 2009, only the Government (which favors the buy) could further cut or cancel what is now part of the ordinary budget of the Defense.
The Parliament would have to make a new law amending the previous one in order to stop the program, or will have to deny the annual general budget at the end of the year – which would most probably mean the fall of the current Government.

The implications are that, in spite of a majority at the lower house who adverse the purchase, most probably they will not risk to legislate against the buy, which also would mean, in case of approval of such new law, the resignation of the current coalition government, which instead is in favor of the purchase.

I have no comment on the new, anyway this means that the program in Italy will most probably follow the current course, at least as long as the current government remains in charge.

The Third Multipurpose Frigate Launched: the “Carlo Margottini”

A few px…

Thx, i didnt write the article but made the interview aside writer 😉
Glendora there is a google translate button on the site 😉
PC21 have been tested by french air force, but nothing is inked.

Thank you for your great will to help my clumsy experience on the Internets hally,
but I am afraid that for the device I am using in these days to follow the discussions on KP there is no “Google translate button” available for each site I visit.
Still I hope that you can appreciate my contribution in pointing to that page, even tough I am not using your GUI.

I think discussion is still open on more intersting aspects then my internet interface.

The fact that starting a war between the west & the east is the plan doesn’t mean we agree with it. It’s just what the traitors we have in power have decided to do, and we can’t do anything about it. All the people in France who are against this are persecuted (freedom of speach my ****).

Nic

Can you please share any proof of persecutions toward French people put in place by French government or there is no way to assess such a claim about a supposedly extensive crime pursued against what it seems could be a large part of French population?

Well if you want an extensive crime prusued against the french population, look no further than the gay marriage & the gender theory being taught to children in school. I’m not even speaking of all the demonstrators who were hit, arrested and teargased, but just the evil of the gender theory in itself. That’s a crime against humanity in the making.

Nic

So according to what you wrote, maybe the ONU or the NATO should estabilish a no fly zone over France, since there the basic rights are denied to a large part of the population, which is victim of extensive crimes pursued by the government. :dev2:

New avionics configuration for the Italian EFA T-1

Google translation form the above linked page from official AMI website:

13/06/2013 – Monday, June 3, the Flight Test Unit (RSV) Pratica di Mare (RM), in close collaboration with various organizations of the Armed Forces and Companies, both Italian and foreign, has completed activity of System Engineering and Flight Test for the introduction, in some of the Typhoon T-1 fleet, of significant improvements of the operational capacities of attack and defense.

Three months of intensive software integration, testing and experimentation on the ground and in flight that brought the aircraft F-2000A to a new avionics configuration, called PSC3.31 ITA-MOD02, the subject of a Certification Technical Operations (CTO) .
In particular, with such a configuration have been introduced on the aircraft of Tranche 1 (T1), a series of innovative features of some avionics subsystems, to improve reliability and effectiveness of systems and sensors.
It has also introduced a new version of the software, which allows a significant improvement in the capabilities of Infra Red Search & Track (IRST) that the Italian aircraft, to date, were the first to fly.

The activities were entrusted to the staff of the Group Management Software (GGS) and that of the 311 Squadron of the Air Force Flight Test Flight, which took over the management of all phases of the ambitious project which involved the study, the verification and validation on ground and in flight, and finally the status of the new packages of avionics software.
The new configuration is also equipped with an innovative set of mission data, produced for the first time at the national level, to improve the capacity for self protection weapon system in complex operational scenarios.

This further milestone, after the so-called modified ITA-MOD01, which is also produced by RSV, brings Italy to be confirmed as the second nation, after the United Kingdom, to certify stand-alone procedures by an improvement of the Armed Forces of the configuration software the airplane F-2000A.