it may be a candidate for secret program 😉 , we dont know everything 😉

A secret program that is shown in the Air Force Association Technology Expo 2012? 😀

Be well people. May your cinematic visions one day grace a screen in a theatre near me.

Here you go:

in the same way, the US military, having been the world’s dominant air and sea power for the last 60 years or so, has pretty much stalled in the way it thinks and fights, while the Chinese underdog/dragon is adopting new technologies at unseen speeds, anything from UAVs to cyberwarfer to stealth and laser technology

Last time i´ve checked the US Military field more UAV´s than the rest of the world combined, they (probably) are the originators of things like STUNEXT, they are the only ones who field operational aerial stealth assets, and are the indisputed leaders in military lasers.

They were also the originators of the recent PGM revolution, (the expenditure of massive numbers of PGM munitions versus “dumb” munitions) the biggest transformation in aerial warfare since the apearance of the ME262 over Germany.

So acusing the US military corps of being “Traditionalists” by comparison with their Chinese and Iranians counterparts is… well…

Another tidbits:

– Canadian MOD calculated the costs based on the assumption that the produced numbers would be the ones described in the 2006/07 MOU

– They estimate that a reduction of 400 JSF´s produced would increase the direct acquisition costs (Unit Recurring Flyaway cost) for Canada by “$500 million” (9490 million Canadian $ instead of 8990 million Canadian $)

Dude, seriously, who’s the dbag that decided we need FEWER boomers that carry fewer missiles? I mean c’mon, we should have AT LEAST 18 boomers that are even bigger and more bada$$ than the ones they’re replacing. I’m thinkin’ something double the size of the Ohio class with twice as many missiles that carry twice as many warheads.

Gotta think BIG!

YYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

Yeah,BIG

I have another great idea, lets burn the entire US Navy budget for a decade on one single, entirely useless, Boomer:

Now carry on, nothing to see here…

Ok, but 1,8 Mach with 6AAMs is still impresive during BVR.
Remember that EF-2000 is almost clean in this configuration, and pilot will drop all the tanks before launch AMRAAM in BVR to gain energy better (like F-15C pilots doing during Allied Force – they drop tanks 50km from target, and then go supersonic up to 1,4 Mach and 35k ft alt , and fire AMRAAM from around 25km).
F-22A is still the best in this area right know, but EF-2000 has better energy in BVR than F-35.
F-22A, PAK-FA, EF-2000 and the others NG fighters will have better energy than F-35 ( max 1,6 Mach speed) during BVR fights.

Dont forget that mixing LO with the range and performances of a Typhoon would end up with something pretty similar to a Raptor… Including costs…

Except for the F 22 which is always “clean” no othar A/C can sustain 2M armed.

Mach 2.3 for more than 300 NM while carrying six AAM´s count?

Yeah, a bit of nitpicking on my part but in these discussions sometimes we tend to discount this particular beast.

Cheers

just telling the truth although OT

You were comparing the incomparable, the “Stryker” program with the “BMP” and some suposedly learnt or not learnt lessons around the use/development of the M-2 Bradley by the US Army.
Any sensible discussion about the Stryker and its Russian equivalents would note the obvious, the Stryker is not a Bradley and is not a BMP. The Stryker doesnt perform the same missions that those two perform, it was not designed to operate in the same manner or in the same enviroment that a BMP and a Bradley work…
Thats why the US Army fields the Stryker and the Bradley, and strangely thats exactly what the Russians do with their BTR´s and BMP´s.
Mind you, look at what the magnificent (not) job the Russians did with the BTR-90 program…