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April 6, 2013 at 12:50 am in reply to: What does JAS-39 offer over F/A-18 or F-16? #2287618

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Did not say that USA needs the Gripen. But most of its allies, in reality, needs a fighter of similar capability.

but if the USAF doesn’t buy it, neither will foreigners unless you give it away like the F5 freedom fighter… with the existence of the F16, had the gripen been a US project from the 1990s… it would have ended up as the F20 of the 1990s… at least in swedish command it has some small sales…

April 6, 2013 at 12:40 am in reply to: 1000-2000 market for a cheap light fighter? #2287625

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Why would Honeywell have restrictions to Iceland or Finland or Israel etc ?

not to those countries of course, but lets say you want to sell it to:
-belarus
-turkey
-egypt
-south africa
-angola
-congo
-myanmar
-pakistan
-iraq
-india
-kazakhstan
-azerbaijan
-venezuela
-Indonesia
-Malaysia
-Vietnam

and many other places who are either restricted from buying US components or are looking to “break free” from US military limitations…

put in alternative “non-restricted” components and your market grows massively…

April 5, 2013 at 5:19 pm in reply to: Size of the new 5th gen fighters…too big !? #2288050

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problem is… some of the best potential customers for this could be classified as “rogue” countries by US standard… hahaha.

Perhaps you can pull another Nokia for finland 😀

simplify
stealthify
sell

April 5, 2013 at 5:00 pm in reply to: 1000-2000 market for a cheap light fighter? #2288072

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topspeed you should do the rounds for seed funding for that project! it may “just” work… is there an alternative for the F124/5 that doesn’t have US export restrictions? maybe a souped up / modernised DV2? and use a SELEX AESA… and hang off some METEOR / R74s in stealthy pods 😀

perhaps even use RATO for take off in combat situations, to improve range and payload…

April 5, 2013 at 1:09 pm in reply to: Size of the new 5th gen fighters…too big !? #2288385

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careful the iranians dont make a plastic mockup of your design and pass it off as a new stealth jet 😀 or worse… the chinese actually build one along the same principles.

still IMHO better to go the UCAV route… especially for air defence,… line of sight encrypted telemetry still works ok for most countries needs…

April 4, 2013 at 11:40 pm in reply to: 1000-2000 market for a cheap light fighter? #2288738

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offtopic. but sintra you could have waited for the new panda 4×4 😀 bags of fun!

April 4, 2013 at 7:35 pm in reply to: Which attack helicopter for Iraq? #2289019

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thanks for the confirmation haavarla.

April 3, 2013 at 1:05 pm in reply to: How could Rafale lose the UAE deal to Typhoon #2290507

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Well if they get Typhoon they get the highest performing AA platform 😉

As for bribes…not in this current climate, this deal if it happens should be squeaky clean.

As already said France probably blew this one a number of years ago, I wouldn’t be surprised that it was for similar reasons as to losing Morocco to the F-16.

they also lost Iraq when they tried to gouge them for MF1-2000s… when the iraqis wanted rafales. Typhoon seems like a natural choice now that the “peninsula shield” is becoming more mature and interoperability, joint depots and training etc… become real issues. I would not be surprised to see KSA / Oman joined by Kuwait, Qatar, UAE… maybe even Iraq and Jordan (as the UAE and Kuwait have already sounded out that they wish to “invite” Iraq into the peninsula shield).

April 3, 2013 at 12:55 pm in reply to: How could Rafale lose the UAE deal to Typhoon #2290526

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IIRC one of the sticking points for a Rafale deal is the value UAE place on their M2K’s to be taken back by France. What happens to their M2K’s if they do actually choose Typhoon?

IMHO the qatar/ksa/uae will “chip in” to donate the UAE M2ks to Egypt now that the “brotherhood” are in charge there… just speculating. in return Egypt has to send its troops to Syria in the post assad collapse to stabilise it in a way favourable to the political/religious views of saudi/qatar/uae… all perfectly reasonable conjecture IMHO.

April 3, 2013 at 12:41 pm in reply to: could the Foxhound mig31 be a good platform for anti shipping missions? #2290562

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if it was supported by an OTH targeting system to enable it to launch at high speed / high altitude from very far away and turn and burn to avoid the SAMs… it would be a nice little “speedy gonzales TU22M” but of course the limited number that russia needs for air defence anyway, precludes it from such conversion…

April 3, 2013 at 12:35 pm in reply to: How could Rafale lose the UAE deal to Typhoon #2290563

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an april 1 gag 😀

April 3, 2013 at 11:27 am in reply to: Future of Egyptian Air Force? #2290636

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egypt is hardly in the economic condition to be anti anyone.

April 3, 2013 at 11:23 am in reply to: How could Rafale lose the UAE deal to Typhoon #2290653

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I think (if true!) it could for simplified interoperability within the “peninsular shield” now that both oman and ksa are typhoon operators…

if this news is true… expect same to happen with kuwait/qatar.

April 3, 2013 at 2:28 am in reply to: MiG-25 vs F-4 in Iran-Iraq war #2290924

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there were operational radars in the western sector. iran did not destroy a single radar.

these radars cannot detect ultra low flying targets unless its 10-20km away.

israeli attack followed desert route – nukhaib-karbala-baghdad… no ADC there.

iraq used “ground observers” for alert for low level attacks from iran… no such alert stations in west.

April 3, 2013 at 1:34 am in reply to: Eurofighter Typhoon News and Updates #2290954

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UAE President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan is scheduled to meet with British PM David Cameron during his visit later this month to London at the invitation of Queen Elizabeth II, while there are rumors going round that an Emirati move towards the Eurofighter deal may be taken on the eve of his visit.

http://www.tacticalreport.com/view_news/UAE:_Sheikh_Khalifa_PM_Cameron_and_Eurofighter_deal/3265

with KSA, Oman and now potentially UAE taking Eurofighters… it seems that potentially the GCC peninsular shield is looking to have at least some squadrons from each “member” available for joint operations / command and thus having the same airframes would fit in logically within that context… if true, its possible that Qatar and Kuwait will also lean towards eurofighter even if for just 1 squadron’s worth each… they’ll all keep “alternative” types in service too, naturally…
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