This is like the third person that can’t read. Yup You got it. Wrong part of the forum.

…the F/A-22 as a Cold War relic,….

:::: cough ::::: bullsh!t :::: cough ::::

Wrong Forum Area. Try General

Thanks Glitter. Keep us posted on this very important program. My French is not good enough, so I depend on you and others.

Expensive, is not having absolute air domination. Anyway the broken rifle, clueless crowd doesn’t have enough firepower on this one. It’s a done deal.

Funny how they were asleep on the Super Hornet and V-22. If anything, you could cancel the JSF as this program is going to cost more in the long run. Especially since it isn’t very “Joint”. The supply chain management for the 3 versions and additional blocks should be interesting. I would rather kill the JSF and have a much smaller number of FB-22’s, That combined with the F/A-22 and B-2 is real long range firepower with less airframes. For strike work, a small FB-22 force would embarass a much larger JSF force on sortie generation, targets hit, survivability, etc. Another problem I have with the JSF is it is taking money away from X-45 UCAV which is a hell of a lot more “joint”, cheaper, and more useful.

Give the money back to all the JSF contributors and end it. Let other countries figure out their own defense needs.

The last successful joint effort was the F-4 Phantom.

All I can say is: About time.

This is the most important weapon for the French IMHO. It takes dumb iron kits to the next level and allows for all weather bombing, multiple targets on one pass ( for the GPS/INS terminal one ) . when the GPS/INS version is configured This puts fixed targets at risk in any weather with a contempt for AAA and small SAMs which cant touch the shooter aircraft. A JDAM like attack profile.

The whole idea is probly better than JDAM in some ways as the kit is a family by itself as explained above. Terminal attack can be anything you want depending on how you assemble the kit before putting it on the jet. GPS/INS terminal like JDAM or IR digital target recognition like SPICE etc. Since JDAM is getting accuracy down in the sub 3 meter region, a lot of targets won’t even require the extra hassle of the IR nose varient for fixed targets.

Correct me but I believe those are the only two terminal options that are funded for the first delivery order???

I believe even the rocket motor is optional too meaning if you don’t need it for an attack, don’t put it on.

A nice inexpensive yet versatile and powerful weapon. Again a really great weapon. Most air plans of the future should be evaluated on how this weapon will be employed. Aircraft with A2G roles ( manned or unmanned ) should be evaluated on their ability to carry this weapon. If you aren’t using weapons like this, ( JDAM, AASM, dual use Paveways ) you are not a big league player. Period.

This is from a French guy from Orleans, who posted this on the ACIG forum recently:

in the last Air & Cosmos Intrnational (published yesterday), it was revealed that trials of AASM began in Cazaux in January this year. Three launches of mock-up AASM have already been achieved by Mirage 2000s, for aerodynamic purpose. About twenty other launches are planned this year.

This photo shows the IR nose setup.

Pretty amazing leftist BS.

The name Daisy Cutters conjures up images of flowers falling from the sky. Far from it, They are the most powerful conventional bombs in the US arsenal.

They weigh 15,000 pounds each and, according to the Federation of American Scientist when detonated ‘produces an overpressure of 1000 psi (pounds per square inch) near ground zero, tapering off as distance increases.’

15,000 pounds. That is exactly 6,803 kilogrammes of solid mass.

An average Indian male, I found, weighs approximately 60 kilogrammes. An average WWF wrestler tips the scale at 110 kilogrammes and the all-time great Sumo wrestler Konishiki was two short of 300 kilogrammes when he retired.

A casual web search reveals that the BEST bus that I take every day to office weighs about 6,000 kilogrammes.

I weigh 75 kgs. A daisy cutter is 800 odd kgs heavier than the bus I take every day. Imagine a bus like that being dropped on a mass of men. The sheer weight is bound kill many. The resulting explosion of a cutter, says the FAS, is not expected to leave any trace of life within a radius of one kilometre.

While daisy cutters are the mother of all bombs, the US forces in Iraq also used missiles, laser guided bunker busters and unguided bombs. Much of it in civilian areas, ostensibly, hiding military installations.

Except no “daisy cutters” were used in Iraq. A small handful of them were used in OEF ( Afghanistan ) .

An opposing view is one thing. An opposing view with BS banter and no sourcing is another.