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Hawk trainer compliant with T-X requirements, says BAE
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By: DAVE MAJUMDAR WASHINGTON DC 4 hours ago Source:

BAE Systems has responded to the US Air Force’s draft key performance parameters (KPPs) for its nascent T-X jet trainer programme to replace the venerable Northrop T-38 Talon.

“We responded to that here just recently,” says Bob Wood, BAE’s campaign lead for the T-X programme. “We’re very encouraged by the fact that the air force put that out.”

Having examined the KPPs in detail, BAE is confident that the Hawk will meet the USAF’s parameters. “The Hawk is going to meet all those requirements,” Wood says.

Not without a redesign, obviously.

Why does LM & US government worry so much about losing an odd few dozen fighters in deals like Norway & Korea when they claim US will buy 2500 or so ?

Because it would trigger other JSF partner nations to bail out and take a look at Boeing’s RCS reduced offerings, and the US DoD is counting on exports to sustain the number of the overall F-35 production number.

http://nbiz.heraldcorp.com/view.php?ud=20121114000366

Lockheed Martin executives strongly urged the Korean government to delay the fighter jet selection by several years, saying that the F-35 gets cheaper in each passing year during a press conference held on November 13th.

This comes as an indirect confirmation from Lockheed that they are indeed running at the last place in the race as leaked by press earlier(The Silent Eagle and the Typhoon are running neck to neck), and Lockheed would rather delay the announcement of outcome than to accept the defeat which would have a decisively negative consequence for the F-35 as the JSF partners are rethinking their F-35 purchases and contemplating a bailout.

China (PRC)

China will do fine. What they lack in quality, they make up in quantity and it works.

Japan – For unless the Japanese are willing to abolish its self-imposed weapons export band

That was lifted last year. Where have you been? One thing is clear. Japan is looking for a cost sharing partner nation(preferably the US), and will not proceed without one or two.

South Korea – But I wonder how much of their proposed 5th gen fighter can be built without the United States technology being used

87% excluding engine according to DAPA.

Anyway here it is deemed quite undoubted that UAE will eventually chose between the M-346 and the T-50, with little or no space for other competitors.

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2012/11/01/0301000000AEN20121101004000315.HTML

S. Korea pushes to sell T-50 training jets to UAE’s flight training center
By Kim Eun-jung
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Yonhap) — South Korea and the United Arab Emirates are in talks about jointly establishing a military flight training center in the Middle Eastern nation, officials said Thursday, a project that raises hopes for Seoul’s export of T-50 trainer jets.

Negotiations are going in a direction that calls for the UAE to set up the facility with the help of foreign investments while South Korea exports the supersonic jet trainers, training equipment and flight technologies for the training center, officials said.

1. Mitsubishi F-3 : Based on my reading of its technology, it really is a 6th gen fighter and is above F-22 especially against stealth targets.
2. YF-23 : The better jet doesn’t always win.
3. F-22 : Enough said.
4. PAK-FA : Kinetically superior to F-22, but inferior to the F-22 in stealth and electronics.
5. J-20
6. J-31
7. X-32 : If X-32 won, we would have them in service today at $60 million each.
8. F-35 : The worst US weapons program ever. A complete disaster.

Since Hui Tong mentioned that the F-60/J-31 is developed with exports in mind, there is a good possibility that it will be exported to China’s loyal ally, Pakistan.

Pakistan certainly needs it to maintain parity with India’s interest in FGFA.. but is that enough? does India also need to fund more money into NASCAR?

More PAK-FA. Or join Japan’s F-3 program. The F-3 will take care of anything in the PLAAF’s inventory.