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However , this far they never showed interest joining the FCAS FR/UK program.

Post 199 in this topic made by “Hallowene”, who is a French Aerospace/defense Journo

– Its been many times that Germany asked to join FCAS program

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The only one which is a genuine problem (I don’t thing big PGM carriage is a problem for Typhoon) is the nuke role

Not particulary, both the AMI and the Luftwaffe have conducted studies in the past about the feasability of integrating the B61 on the Phoon, its entirely doable. Its a question of money and, right now, they are forking out the cash to integrate the B61-12 on the Tornado, so…

Upgrading the Tornado means nothing in the british context. Remember how long after being upgraded the Harriers were retired?

And the Jaguar (that was the first European aircraft with an HMD), and the Sea Harrier (L16 coupled with the AIM120) and the Tornado FMK3, and they´ve almost slashed the entire Typhoon T1 batch out of hand.
From the end of the Cold War till the SDSR 2015 the Brits were in an almost indecent haste to slash their sqn numbers at an even greater speed (!) than Germany or France.

Yes, might be something like that.

https://sputniknews.com/russia/20170…lane-computer/

Russia’s fifth-generation fighter jet, formerly known as the Prospective Airborne Complex of Frontline Aviation (PAK FA), or Sukhoi T-50, has officially been named the Su-57. In an interview with Sputnik, aviation expert Viktor Pryadka said that the Su-57 is a computerized multifunctional complex capable of flying on its own.
“Each such plane becomes a computer center which is able to decide exactly what type of arms and ammo it needs for a specific combat mission. In the UAV mode, the plane can reach its target much faster with overloads of up to 15 G, while the maximum overload a pilot can endure does not exceed 10 G,” said Viktor Pryadka, the CEO of the Avintel Aviation Technologies Alliance.

The T-50 can do 15 G in autonomous mode.

Who is “Viktor Pryadka” and who are “the Avintel Aviation Technologies Alliance”?
Never heard of them, and the only aerospace “Avintel” company that i could found is a French aerospace consulting company.
The chap is claiming that the SU-57 is a optionaly manned combat UCAV… Serious doubts on that one.

The Wikipedia articles on the German Air Force and fighter wings 33 and 51 contradict this. There are is a recon Tornado in wing 51, more Tornados than you state in wing 33, and 15 Tornados used for training in the US.

Tactical Air Force Wing 33 Büchel Air Base, flying 42x Panavia Tornado IDS
Tactical Air Force Wing 51 “Immelmann” Schleswig Air Base, flying 28x Panavia Tornado ECR
Flight Training Center of the Air Force, Holloman AFB, flying 15x Panavia Tornado IDS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Air_Force
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taktis…ngeschwader_33
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taktis…ngeschwader_51

You are entirely correct. Me writing before coffee (and without checking data)… Thanks for the correction.

Here is a German language article mentioning the maintenance issues with German Tornadoes. Quoting Google Translate:

http://www.zeit.de/politik/2015-12/bundeswehr-tornados-maengel

Thats the problem with generalistic newspapers, those numbers are actually pretty good.

Taking into acount that there’s only one single Luftwaffe tactical wing equiped with Tornado’s, having between 29 and 38 airframes operational at any given time it means an excelent operational capability for the 33 TFW. A Luftwaffe TFW usually field around 35 airframes.

bring_it_on – The ‘AEGIS’ system that the ‘USN’ are going to integrate with the ‘F-35’, has there been any conformation 100% that the ‘Russian24’s’ actually compromised the system when they did that low fly by in the black sea a while back as they claimed ?

No, it was an entirely silly claim.