To think a 4 year old could type about the things I have, shows how stupid you are, U LOST !!!!!!!!!!!!!:D:D

More like 11 years old with a dreadfull atitude problem.

Yes, they have risen since then and again fallen down, just like everything else. Quite frankly, I think cars were equally expensive back in 2001 than they are now.. Why not aircraft?

Dont even compare, the inflation rate for weapon systems is astonishing. There was a Rand Study (a 400 pages beast) from 2001 (if i remember right) and they compiled numbers from the USAF for severall decades. The acquisition inflation was a whooping 10% by year! And the rest of the world follows a similar trend.

Sintra, when did US work on this monstrosity? Late 80’s?

Late eighties.

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Scorpion, USS and Roy

More here:
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1988/1988%20-%200208.html

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4) Dare2 has been banned (and I, for one, won’t replace him)…

Erakis

Was he? To be honest, my “ignition” prediction was based on the assumption that our daring forumer colegue would be around… My bad.
Blimey! Another calm afternoon at the Key publishing forum.
On the rest of your text, where do i sign?

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Just a delta with rear fins could perhaps be as good as Euro canard-deltas.

You´ve never seen the original Version IV of the Hornet 2000? It was a delta canard version of the Hornet offered to the Eurofighter partners in the begining of the nineties.

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Well, the USA reneged on its undertakings once before, hence the fuss a few years ago. Perhaps it’s now reneged on what was agreed in 2007, though since the exact terms (i.e. what we were supposed to get access to) remain secret, one can’t be sure.

We should never have got involved. 🙁 I don’t know how good a Super Harrier could have been, or how much it would have cost, but either it, or a catapult-launched non-US fighter, looks as if it may have been a better option for the RN. Maybe Italy & Spain could have been persuaded to join a Super Harrier project, using Harrier systems (e.g. Blue Vixen) initially. But probably not.

I wonder what would have happened if the UK had tried to interest the other Eurofighter partners in a Replica Eurofighter? The latter could have been just an airframe development project, wrapped around Eurofighter engines & systems. Ah well, too late now.

Swerve

Too late indeed. After spending the best part of three billion US$ in the JCA development program, the British Def Minister who had the balls to walk out of this program with the argument “the American didnt gave us the source codes” would have those same “balls” torn out by the media/Chancellor of the Exchequer/Prime Minister (pick your choice).

Gordon Brown – “What? If that was so important why havent we demanded a signed contract?”
Bob Ainsworth – “We thought of the idea, but, well,… mmmmmmm, ah, right… It wasnt me… :o”