read the post above…Official statement versus empiric counting. there is a big gap of credibility;)

https://www1.online.thalesgroup.com/col/Airborne/public_inquire05.html

Arthuro

“Empiric counting”?! Credibility?
What empiric counting?
That text was released with two photos, one of them was the one in my post, count yourself…

Yes, you aren’t. The F-16’s overall performance is entirely inferior to the F-35.

No its not, whats the maximum speed for the F-35A?

Swerve we could always import something and have it built here, AW in Yeovil could assemble UH-60’s or almost anything else we would care to buy in the helicopter sense. Not quite as simple in other areas although it still could be done. You have a very good point though it’s almost all down to the fact that we have built our own before back when we actually ordered things in numbers and people bought our kit. Now it’s all about trying to keep people in jobs no matter how grossly inefficient and expensive it may be and trying in vain to keep the ability to have control over a product.

The British Defense Industry is not particulary expensive or inefficient by comparison with the rest.
And before someone starts with the “Nimro…”, there are equivalent (huge) fxxxx ups in almost every military industrial complex that i can remember (well, Sweden might be the exception).

Is it known how many F-35s and F-22s can participate in such a network at once? Right now MIDS allows up to 8 aircraft to share their data, while receiving and possibly sending data to C2/3 and AWACS and the like. It’s not like these data are just presented on a seperate display format, but they are fused with onboard data from IR, radar, IFF and EW systems, at least in the case of a Rafale or Typhoon. MADL will certainly be more advanced with its 6 phased arrays and as I understand it, it will allow somewhat a direct line of sight communication, avoiding unnecessary transmissions in areas out of interest. The latter point and the increased data transfer capacity, at least in comparison to current systems seem to be the strongest points of that DL.

Scorpion

The MIDS-LVT allows eight aircraft to share their data IF they are using “point to point” connections between JTIDS/MIDS terminals, BUT if they are conecting through a transmission “Hub” (a E-3, a J-Stars or a land station), they can go up to 128 terminal equiped “systems” (aircrafts, ships, whatever) sharing data between them.

Cheers

That’s wrong the internal fuel load is at least 4900 kg.

http://www.luftwaffe.de/fileserving/PortalFiles/02DB060000000001/W27P7GKP190INFODE/Fact%20Sheet%20Eurofighter.pdf

If i am not mistaken there´s also a video on youtube (somewhere) in wich a RAF pilot mentions an internal fuel of five tons.

Cheers

Unless you pack lead…he says fasiciously.

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What about 1688? When a foreign army, led by a foreign head of state, lands in England, marches across the country winning battles & puts that foreign head of state on the throne of England, it’s pretty hard to call it anything other than a conquest. There was a battle not a mile from here, on 9th December 1688. Regular Dutch army troops on the winning side, British army (albeit Irishmen) the losers.

William of Orange was invited over by Parliament and the people he did not invade.
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Willian of Orange was invited by a letter wrote and signed by seven persons…
In the Twenty Century that would be called a “Fifth Collum”.
The Parliament made William of Orange king of England after a ferocious debate and under the “friendly” presence of fifteen thousand Dutch Troops in London (and with a civil war betwen the Tories and the Whigs looming).
Almost the exact same situation that Portugal faced in 1580, the Portuguese Cortes crowned Filipe II, the Spanish king has “Filipe I of Portugal” after laying waste to the Portuguese Army and taking Lisboa, but we do call it an Invasion.