@eagle1
But in all fairness, he is a FRENCH pilot.

:confused:

And?

Actually the seeker was always better than the ASRAAM’s.

If you are refering to the original AIM-9X it uses the same seeker of the AIM-132.

It will be even more damaging for the Typhoon than for the Rafale if they loose.

If the MMRCA contest his lost to Dassault that will be a very severe blow to Eurofighter, now the UAE? Not in one million years.
The UAE his for Dassault to loose, if the french fighter lands the contract that will be seen has “normal”, they´ve have been in talks for more than three years, if Eurofighter lands that one (highly unlikely IMO) it will a massive surprise for almost everyone.

Didn’t the UK eventually get what they wanted(besides, of course, the source codes that have been denied to everyone)?

Like two, probably three, F-35B´s?

With close to 200 potential orders(the largest outside of the US itself) plus more from the Indian Navy I daresay they’d be willing to accommodate an Indian assembly line.

Well, depends on what you call an assembly line, the Italian and the (proposed) Japanese line will assemble kits made in the USA, if that´s the idea, it might be possible.

Not just the airframe, engines included. 😉

He is probably right.

He´s totaly wrong!
In my book Dassault doesnt build engines…

😎 Here is hoping for a Republican victory, A reversal to Bush era policy towards India and tough (even war) measures on Middle East and against Pakistan.

Hey, hey, three wars a decade later, in the midle of a financial maelstron king kong size and what the USA and the “rest of the west” really needs his a tough stance in the Middle East with the possibility of another war (with whom? Pakistan, Syria, Iran, all of them?)! 😮

Just what the doctor prescribed…

Conventionally Armed Stand-Off Missile = Storm Shadow
Advanced Anti-Armour Weapon = Brimstone
Low-Level Laser Guided Bomb = one or more of the Paveways

Air Launched Anti Radiation Missile = ALARM. Presumably not to be integrated because it’ll be going out of service, due to the age of the stocks of missiles.

All the above terms are used on the RAF website in contexts which make their meanings clear. Sometimes they’re actually explained.

Swerve

I know, the text was a direct copy of whats written in the 2011 NAO Report, not my own hand writing.

Cheers