There always are ROE (even in real combat situations) and they are not designed to handicap one aircraft in particular but generaly help the pilots going through the whole exercise/mission without going through the “bubble”, collide or fly their jet into the ground.

Beside they are the same for everyone.

Not by a long shot. In almost every NATO exercise, the Red Team is given a set of “rules of engagement” that defines what they are emulating, it can go from a “high end threat” to a very “low one”. One of the flying teams might be heavily handicaped by the ROE´s, actually, thats very normal.
One example, in the latest TLP 2009-4, in Albacete, the Ala 15 Hornets were asked to go from the “evolved R77 capable fulcrum” to very basic BFM training in diferent missions.
There are, literaly, hundreds of texts describing what i have posted above…

I don’t know this particular beer, but I’m really found of beers in general (especially german and belgian ones), can you tell me more about that one, please ? Where is it from ? and how does it taste ? 🙂

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Ho! and her’es my contribution:

Merry christmas!

Its Portuguese, its a 6,2º red beer, a pilsner. Strong flavoured, it goes very well with a decent steak.

Cheers and Merry Christmas to everybody.

but the lack of an operational helmet, limitations with PIRATE, and some other areas relating to equipment maturity mean that Typhoon in service may not quite match Typhoon as modelled in JOUST

There was this story told by a Spanish pilot in wich a gagle of pre block 5 “Phoons” made a poor figure of themselves because of dreadful MMI integration and software glitches.
Something like in some exercise (or test) they had detected one single “blip” from “red air”, and sudendly in their radar screens appeared the entire “invincible armada”! They made a 180º turn and got the hell out of there.
What had happened? Each and every aircraft was getting “bips/pings” from diferent sensors, Pirate, radar, DASS. Instead of combining those signals, the MMI interface presented every single “ping” has an individual boggey.
End of story, an entire gaggle of Typhoons run away of one single Mirage F1!
Mind you, i have read that story a loooonng time ago, so i am probably getting the details all wrong (Pirate in pre block 5!), but the general idea was what i´ve described above.

Cheers

I am not inventing anything.

Just as I posted except for comments concering speed increase due to increaced thrust engines (presumably EJ220) I have seen only ONE webpage site Mach 1.5 (& the english verion of the site DOES NOT say Mach 1.5).

Oh yes you are… You were presented with two official pages, not one, and you were told by me that the first time that this number appeared was in the old official Eurofighter page that was revamped in the late (November) 2006, in that same page, those numbers were presented in Germain and in English.
In those three pages there´s not one single connection between speed and uprated engines. Actually it is clearly stated in all the involved texts that this supercruise speed is obtained with the actual EJ200. I dont know where you get this idea of increased thrust engines (“Der hohe Leistungsüberschuss der EJ 200-Triebwerke”/”Le surcroît de puissance des réacteurs EJ200 permet d’atteindre la forte accélération indispensable pour le combat longue portée, à haute altitude et à vitesse supersonique” means that the EJ200 has specific excess thrust, something that is known for ages, not that you need a new uprated engine, surely you can understand the concept…).

I do find highly amusing that the same person that dismiss the Mach 1.6 maximum speed for the F-35A presented in the official LM page has being too “slow” and merely a “KPP”, dismiss official Eurofighter information because the speed is too “fast” and only achievable with uprated engines, when that is not stated anywhere.
Nationalistic bias? Surely not…

Some slightly better news: Only one fast jet squadron is actually being cut now (a Harrier squadron), whilst another squadron (Harrier or Tornado) won’t be decided until after the defence review. I hope it’s a Tornado squadron that goes to be honest, it’s the difference between losing a squadron of planes (that can in turn extend the life of the overall fleet as spares) and losing the entire capability of Carrier strike if we lose all the Harriers.

And from the sounds of it, only the Nimrod MR2’s are being retired, with the MRA4s simply being delayed by 12 months.

From 2004 till now, the RAF “won” two and a half sqn´s of Typhoons and lost three sqn´s of Tornados Mk3, three sqn´s of jag´s and three sqn´s of Sea jets…

And if its Friday where you are at, have a beer.

Now, thats a fine idea!

And i admit being an unashamed fanboy of this particular one…

Cheers

If i am not mistaken, those were taken at “Typhoon Meet” by a Portuguese F-16 OCU from Esquadra 301 “Jaguares” stationed at Monte Real.

Well, it seems that i have won my own personal “fanboy” spurs!
Go figure.

Cheers

And now for something completely diferent!

I will sure survive the night
there was a sleep when I come alive
I’ll make it run towards the city light
it always keeps me on the right side

I will sure survive the night
there was a sleep when I come alive
I’ll make it run towards the city light
it always keeps me on the right side

When we come alive
We never stop we won’t give in
When we come alive
We keep it up until we win

The time is now
We won’t back down
When we stand united we can save the day
Eurofighter
It’s now
We’re back in town
we can do whatever, dance the night away

Deep inside made up my mind
I won’t back down cause stopped at me now
I’m on the road, this is me you know
and I’m sure I’ll get there somehow

When we come alive
We never stop we won’t give in
When we come alive
We keep it up until we win

chorus

Eurofighter

We can all the save the night
when we come alive
United we stand

chorus

http://www.metrolyrics.com/eurofighter-lyrics-etype.html

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!