Dassault never went on bribery , commissions always , but not briberies, the spin docs calls hotels rooms and meals as “bribing”!

BAE just were found to get 1 billions dollars budget in bribing around the world, they are into investigation into 17 countries!

since thales affair, french auttorities and gov are fighting corruption, anyway france in a real democraty, not as the crownies who can shut up thier justice when needed!

Bae payed a beauty instutute to the austrian gov general wife, the one that cleared the bid for bae, haha, Jack come on guy, tell us where dassault bough anything to any influent ppl close of a defence contract in the last 10 years?

. Serge Dassault, of the Dassault company, got a 18-months probationary sentence for bribing the previous mentioned people. In total, Agusta and Dassault paid more than 160 million francs (about 4 million euros) to the Parti Socialiste and Socialistische Partij.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agusta_scandal

Those meals were pretty substantial, four million of Euros in meals…

Talarion?! 😮

That must win the “worst named UAV of the century” for a mile!

I hope it is poor translation. The “Anglo-Swedish consortium BAE” and the “European Eurofighter consortium EADS”, “British Aerospace”. Surprising that “British Aircraft Corporation” wasn’t in there as well.

By the midle of those articles i was expecting something like the “European Consortium Hawker”…

Just to clear this “15 year gap” nonsense, the first AN/APG-77 flight was in a Boeing 757 in 1998, the first RBE-2 AESA was flying in a Mystere in 2002…

Anyone here has a clear idea about ITAR regulations and the export of the radar blockers for the SH?
I do imagine that delivering that specific piece of equipment to the Aussies (or the Danish) is quite “straightforward”, but how about Brasil and India?

The reason that nobody else has had Airborne AESA is two-fold:
1. They did not have to manufacuting ability for the small scale involved in the modules.
2. They did not have to money to research that ability.

fyi, The reason that I place the APG-81 as a 3rd gen is:
1. Small, snap-in, size of modules
2. Multiple channels per module

1º
The MMICS produced by UMS or by the the “old” Qinetiq foundry in GB are way smaller than the ones used in the AN/APG-77 (or the AN/APG-80) for more than half a decade. The specifications are PUBLIC (for UMS, you just have to go to their site), that includes the sizes and consumed energy.
Selex has had acess to MMICS coming from three sources, the two mentioned above and BAE Systems foundry, the old Lockheed Martin foundry that was sold to the Brits in 2005. That foundry as a huge backlog of ordered MMICS for (guess what) the AN/APG-81. Those same MMICS were made available to Selex right in 2006.

Both the Japanese through Melco (Mitsubishi F-2), Sweeden (Erieye) have airborne radars…

2º
Now whats that on top of HMS Daring?

3º
The first AESA Euro-canard delivered to sqn level will be by 2012

ps- Apple phone is a disaster

Welcome to the world of sarcasm. Either you don’t understand it or didn’t pick up on it in my last post. Try reversing every opinion there to find what I really meant.

And since when were we down to 66 F35’s? First i’ve heard of it.

Ooops 😮
Sorry about that…

The serial numbers for JCA have been asked, sixty six of them.

It has been changed. The 24 Tranche II Typhoon which were original for RAF but now being sold to RSAF won’t have the Tranche II replacement for RAF, which means that the number of Typhoon for RAF has already been decreased from 232 to 208.

And it seems that RAF will have to further reduce the final Typhoon’s number its own now (From 208 to 123 +/- a few reserved fighters ??? )…..

toan

The original plan was 137 “Phoons” on seven active sqn´s (15 fighters each), plus the OCU (24 fighters), the OEU (4 fighters) and the Falklands detach (another 4 fighters), then there would be 84 airframes (the entire fleet would be rotated) for “attrition and reserves”.

Now we have two scenarios, one, Torpy was mentioning “123 operational Phoon´s”, this would mean deleting one single sqn and a few “attrition” airframes. This would mean (roughly) slashing 20 to 25 airframes. Those 24 Saudi Phoons T2 would be the most obvious candidates.
Then we have the second scenario, it´s called the “unmitigated disaster”, a force of only 123 airframes would mean four sqn´s and a very small OCU, the absolute minimum to maintain QRA over GB…
194 Tornados F2/F3 and 200 Sepecat Jaguar would be replaced by 123 Typhoon´s, or if we want a more optimistic view, seven sqn´s (3 Jag´s plus 4 Tornado) would be replaced by four units.
Blimey…