In the meanwhile, real cost of LRIP9 is skyrocketing… https://www.fpds.gov/common/jsp/easySearchView.jsp
Not according to the available data.
I am not exactly a fan of the program, and for a decade the JPO failed miserably in the cost dpt, year after year, every time that the Pentagon Budget was released the Dave bit was a depressing read, much in the same manner that the ATF program panned out.
But (to my surprise) in the last few years that has stoped. Bogdan, somewhere in 2013, beggining 2014, must have threatned to eat the liver of a few chaps in LM and the JPO… Whatever he did, it worked, the numbers coming from the Budget documents are pretty solid (they dont climb, the predictions made for the following years are kept).
Page 84 to 105 for the USAF version
http://www.secnav.navy.mil/fmc/fmb/Documents/18pres/APN_BA1-4_BOOK.pdf
Page 85 to 114 for B/C Dave
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And we have the Budget for the USAF.
The REC Flyaway for a 2018 F-35A is $87.109 mil, the “normal” Flyaway is $99.843 mil.
At this pace pace, i am going to really “eat my own words” from three years ago, the JPO and LM are going to pull a REC of ~ $85 mil in 2019.
ps – Blimey, didnt noticed that Spud (who else?) got there before me…
No, they are not operational, the entire Argentine Super Etandard Naval Sqn was disbanded some two years ago.
The eleven SUE airframes are stored at the COAN.
About the three preliminary designs, 23 is based on the F-35, 24 look likea XF-23/PAK-FA mix, and the 25/26 on J-20 without canards.
So I would guess it would be an air superiority fighter with a secondary maritime strike capability, about all of the weapons would be carried inside the weapons bays.
23 seems me hopeless, so I’ll expect a match between the other two models
Those designs are not competing ones.
“DMU” stands for “Digital Mock Up”, the numbers are a direct correspondent to a regnal year of Emperor Akihito, that means that DMU23, was the consolidated design for 2011, DMU24, the consolidated design for 2012, and so on.
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Because South Korea and Turkey have been working together for a long time.
Plessey, a forerunner of Selex was delivering radars to South Korea in the late fifties of the 20th century.
No, thats a description of what Luis Inacio da Lula is being acused off, something that he rejects. The article in itself is exactly identical to the ones that were discussed here in December.
Lets wait for a veridict.
Why would Korea work with Turkey when they have offers from the likes of Thales, IAI, Selex, etc?
With the T-50, the task is relatively simple.. much of the fighter’s weapon system has been taken over from the Su-35S, which already has many missile types integrated..
The radar is diferent, the irst is diferent, the mission computers are diferent, the ew suite is diferent…
Then there’s the internal bay’s mechanisms to clear.
Mercurius is correct
There´s a connection between the two designs, the “FMA” SAIA 90 is nothing else, nothing more than one of the Dornier TKF-90 designs, those designs were made together with Northrop (the most famous one being the ND-102), the same chaps who had designed the P-530, then the YF-17 wich was the base for the Hornet.
The best model that i´ve ever seen for the “SAIA 90” is a wind tunnel test scale in the Deutsches Museum in Munich, but it actually is part of the Eurofighter development program.
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What?!
Worthwhile trade-off? Maybe – but it cost too much.
Exactly
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There is something like internal politics where news channel like CNN , MSBNC , Bloomberg , WP , NYT the list is long has been anti-Trump but that is their internal politics , Foxnews has been pro-Republican/Pro-Trump.
Beyond their internal politics on other issue most Western MSM toe their Government Line and Parrot what they say , These are corporate media controlled indirectly by government. Every time they would quote High Level Government Sources to get their story out most of which are just fake or whose authenticity no one can verify.
CNN has been cheer leaders when it come to war , they even have long discussion with their correspondent and ex General on how war has to be conducted and what needs to be done , that has been Genesis of CNN when it came to lime light during GW 1 where War was shown live on TV.
Three minutes in the CNN site provides things like this:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/15/opinions/strategy-syria-mess-haid-haid-opinion/index.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/17/middleeast/iran-zarif-amanpour-trump/index.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/11/middleeast/syria-conflict-isis-us-military/index.html
These articles are all recent…
Lyndon B. Johnson “Credibility Gap” was famous, Nixon lost its presidency to the Press, Carter was riped in the newspapers after the Iran Embassy raid, Reagan was called a “cowboy” (and a lot worse) that was “courting Nuclear War” in the US newspapers, Bill Clinton was acused in the front page of the Washington Post of “wagging the Dog” in Sudan, Bush “Junior” had comic strips of him has a monkey bombing Camels, google “Red Line” and “Obama” and you´ll get enough press opinion pieces to fill severall books and dont get me on Trump!
Wanna see Trump get lambasted because of Syria? Well, try the Daily Show, or the Daily Beast or the Huffington Post, or…
And this is just in America, i am looking at a Telegraph sketch in wich Boris Jonhson is portrayed has an US/Trump Lapdog…
Western media will go after their governments both in internal politics and external, from Syria to the Kyoto protocol, its irrelevant.
Can anyone outside of the Western Press, not living in a Western Democracy get away with something like this?
http://www.independent.co.uk/#gallery (see the Daily Cartoon bit)
A) Why would anyone throw money at an aircraft that was retired thirteen years ago when there are an awfull lot Viper airframes at AMARC?
B) Re-engining a fighter jet is tricky business, for every sucess story there´s a F-4K out there
C) To stick an HDM and integrate the weapons you´ve listed, the entire avionic suite of whatever version of the F-104 would have to be entirely guted and replaced, expensive…
In the end, might has well order some Gripen C´s from Sweden, or if the budget doesnt get there, a call to KAI will do the trick (called “F/A-50”)…
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Russia are directly owned by State and Western MSM are corporate media indirectly controlled by state ….both media will toe the official lines
Today´s CNN front page is a massive mauling of the USA President
And chaps like Nixon, Margaret Tatcher, Hollande, José Sócrates, and a bucket load of others have had the exact same treatment.
Western Governments getting savagely beaten by news corporations is something quite normal.
F-35 radar has more T/R modules than even PAK-FA’s radar. Unless they use vastly different frequency ( which is highly unlikely because of resolution and what not), F-35 do have a bigger radar than Eurofighter.
I think you are basing that assertion on several photos on the internet that count the number of TRM’s on the AN/APG-81 antena, giving it a 1600 plus count, am I correct?
Some two or three years, the TRM diagram of what looks like to be the AN/APG -81 hardware got out (you can find the images in this forum), one of the “low’s” that was counted has a “TRM” (on the extreme right of each one of the TRM modules, if I remember correctly) was actually an open space, someone here did the math and got to something like around 1440 TRM’s (I think) for the entire antenna.
The discussion was here, but was reproduced around the web on several other forums.
Thing is, right now claiming that the AN/APG-81 has a bigger TRM count than its competitors is precocious and (in my opinion) in relation to the PAK FA, wich is a much bigger airframe seems counter intuitive.