First, I didn’t mention the F 22 peak speed anywhere in my posts. AFAIK it’s classified. The SC speed is OTOH offical and it’s ~ 1.7M.

I did include the time EF climb and accelerate, but the figure is still lower than the 1.2M-1.3M claimed.

This means that an EF may very well go 1.3m with full A-A load (as I already said), but to go for a meaningfull distance, the SC speed is lower. The same goes for max. speed: with A-A load an EF can go to 1,8M, but for how long? Not too much, you can bet. That’s why the first scenario in the Norway presentation is flown in AB at ~ 1.3M.

The same goes for F 22 too. According to AFA journal the combat radius is 400 Nmiles including 100 Nmiles in SC, but it goes up to 590 Nmiles when flying in subsonic.

Dynamo

Without knowing the exact altitude that the profile is flown, using the data on the Norwegian pdf its impossible to calculate the exact mach number that is described by the term “supercruise”.
There are too many variables, and a variation of Mach 0.1/0.2 is well inside of a probable “error margin” (at least when i do those same calculations, but i was a disaster in maths at University, so… :o).

(I do imagine that you are aware that the mach number varies with altitude, air density, etc).

Cheers

Not that I know about. Evaluation and qualification is done by the WTD61 at Manching and as Laage AB is almost daily visited by spotters I’m sure someone would have spotted it if the helmet was worn. But I’ll ask someone who might know this for sure. Could take a few days before I get an answer.

Cheers

Thanks.

Another good news the Typhoon’s new Striker helmet is cleared now for operational use, though it will still take some month before it reaches the frontline.

http://www.janes.com/news/defence/jdw/jdw091215_1_n.shtml

Scorpion, you are probably the best person to ask this. I have this idea that a few JG73 pilots have been “playing” with the pre-series Striker, am i correct?

On the fox E issue some points draw my attention :

First it seems that USAF worries at red flag or at the UAE were justified because of spectra elint capability. secondly I think we had a debate about the ability of spectra to perform finding in three dimensions recently. But the fact that the FSO can be slaved to the RWR and ajust precisely the focus to give a clear picture in the cockpit was already a clue. the SEAD role with spectra/AASM was another.

It is not the first this info has been posted but it seems that the UAE are really pushing meteor integration because I don’t think that the french air force expected to deploy any meteor operationnaly befaore 2015.

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/dae/sponsors/sponsor_rafale/img/fox3_14.pdf

There might be another aspect to the Meteor “fast track” integration, when will expire the seekers and engines of oldest batches of MICA?
If i am not mistaken the first delivered MICA´s are “quite” old, aint they?

Cheers

LOL.

Companies like Eurofighter GmbH NEED to publish false data in order to HOPE for further sales of their aircraft.

What false date did Eurofighter GMBH released?
And of course that an Air Force willing to spend Billions of Euros in “metal tubes” wont validate the performance data of those same “flying tubes”…
Right.

It may not be twin engine by choice but more so because the single engine M88-2 would not provide sufficient thrust. So why make your non-availability of choices appear like an eligibility for higher price.

The customer may not have required a twin enginned fighter if one was powerful enough.

What was the western aircraft engine that could deliver 15+ ton in the end of the nineties?
The F119. Would a 10 ton fighter equiped with one single F119, built at the rate of 14 units a year, be cheaper than the Dassault Rafale?

Cheers

After Korea, Singapore and the Neederlands technical evaluations I am curiously waiting to see J*******o arguments this time to countradict, as usual, official or tangible sources.:D

Arthuro

With Switzerland, Brasil and the UAE this MIGHT be Rafale´s year. Fingers crossed.

Cheers 🙂

ps- I was expecting a swedish victory on this one…

Does this discussion never end?

Twist and Spin! :p

Cheers 🙂