Gripen A/Bs are likely wired to carry Swedish unique licence-produced weapons.

Like Mavericks, AIM-120B´s and AIM-9L/M furnished by the USA? 🙂
On top of that join the american “Mk” series dumb bombs.
And yes, Denel pylons were part of the offset contracts established with the South African government.

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the ags is only a varient of the 155mm. which is set to go on the new DDX – this is a 200 memter cruiser hull with a 18m beam. coming in around 11,500 tons

look how forward the ags is on the pic here http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Uss_Zumwalt.jpg

Stan

One of the reasons (the biggest actually) why those Zumwalts are so big is that the AGS has nothing to do with a conventional 155mm gun. The entire system is simply huge in size and weight. The magazine, by itself, is the equivalent of 64 Mk41 strike lenght VLS. There´s no way that the AGS fits any variant of the Daring.

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What are the odds of a Sea Gripen being developed? That would fit brazilian needs perfectly in my opinion.

Slightly better than North Korea being invited to be part of the JSF Team, but not by much! :dev2:

So if person does not rate typhoon – it must be bashing

No Lindermeyer

Myself , and i believe TMor even more, would be happy to believe in whatever you or “Trenchard” wrote IF…

There wasnt obvious errors on that text, errors no pilot would make.
You wont get a MAW notice of a simulated shot, because a pulse-doppler radar MAW needs something that is actually flying to detect…

Then, most of the claims are simply preposterous, the “active cancelation thingy” Klingon device, is, to put it bluntly, ridiculous.

Then there this small problem of something that you called the “official” RAF Forum, whats that? Not E-Goat certainly…

And of course, that a Royal Air Force officer would writte this “thing” in an “official” RAF forum. The Royal Air Force has sent 453 pilots to the ATLC, so he would be well protected by anonimity… NOT
That pilot, would be imediatly traced, and “beach slaped”…

So, we have a text written by an anonimous in an non existant “official” RAF Forum, that was erased by some naughty moderators, with factual technical errors and some pretty preposterous claims, and this was found out by a lurker who in is first post here, in Key publishing submits this “jewel” and starts the text with “Dare2 maybe this interset you”. Our “Daring” coleague by is own admission has an “anger management” issue, a text like this is bit like adding fire to gasoline.

So, yes, if you want to call this “bashing” (your own words) i am not going to chalenge your assertion.

maybe this interset you

From a RAF blog – was link from e goat – official RAF Forum

-yesterday i copy some text as i could not make link work – but could not post intil today

big suprise the moderator remove link to blog and the blog is gone

pilot is SQN LDR Trenchard

The exercise was a blue team interception of a Strike packages Top cover
The 2 flights consisted of 4x typhoons & 4x rafale.

We were acting as an F14 flight (no mention of whose but ..) acting as CAP for a strike group. We were conducting active sweeps the rafales had AWACS support.

In the first engagement the AWACS vectored them into our 6 position. We never heard or saw them coming. Obviously vectored by the AWACS they made a completely passive attack at long range. Those MICA are a serious threat – the MAW system completely failed to give us any warning of a launch.

In the second engagement the Rafales were (simulating) only WVR heat seekers and for BVR had to use RH.

We did not get the result we wanted – we broke as soon as we heard the RWR and turned into them, But we just couldn’t detect them, that SPECTRA is really some thing as soon as they go active with that system the aircraft just vanishes of the scope.

Once we got into WVR it all went to pieces – we just couldn’t match the Rafales agility, If you turned with it we bled off to much air speed and the Rafale out accelerated us.
Our one ill was more down to a screw up by Frenchie than skill on our part.

It appears that yet again the RAFs been lumbered at 5x the cost with another BAE lemon.

Personally I say save a fortune on the F35 and fly the Rafale off the carriers. For our likely opponents its more than adequate, and maybe we can ditch the great white elephant known as Typhoon

Disappointed and disillusioned is how best to describe the squadron post exercise.

1 – How is the MAW suposed to give warning of a simulated shot?
2 – So, the Rafale out-acelerates a Typhoon?! In such a way that it becames relevant in WVR when both sides are using wide angle IR AAM´s?!! Right…
3 – The “active stealth” klingon device just made an official entry into the ATLC world?
Blimey warn the JG71, their AN/APG-65 are hawfully good! And by the way, the AN/APG-68(V9) of the Hellenic Air Force are even better,

Trenchard is dead for quite some time. Leave the poor man alone, he deserves it.

frankly whatever earlier post said this report is the most precise we have with quoted named persons. For the first time you can hear bout specific detail of the FAB evaluation…I don’t think we ever had something like that before.

It was mostly PR claims from boeing, dassault and saab and then rumors if you take some distance.

And one of those names is (IMO) credible, Pedro Paulo Resende. He has some very good connections in the Brasilian military. He was for a very long time JANES correspondent in Brasil.
That doesnt mean he´s always correct/right, etc, no one is, it means that i think that he has some very, very good sources in Brasil…
Nice chap, i am owing him a bottle of Port for quite some time. 😮

Ah, finnaly friday, thank god! Working week is through!

Here’s my personal favourite

Still nothing about this exercise in the international press? Only the French briefing so far?

We should open a topic about beer in the “General Discussion” forum!

TGIF
Being a bit lazy today, i hope you dont mind asking where does that beer cames from (yep, i know, there´s something called Google :o)

Have a nice X-Mas btw a Mirage 2000 HUD scoring a kill on the second best after F-22 looks a little desordely by modern standards.

And a photo of a Phantom called “Rafale Eater” is what? 😉

Can we take any conclusion of those two photos? No we cant…

Cheers