Israel.

Why would Turkey and Israel get into a fight?

Which bring out another theeses.
With the good Russian-Israel relations, we could see S-400 in Israel at some point

S-400´s in Israeli colours? The chaps who receive four billion US$ a year from the Pentagon?
It might be me and i might be entirely wrong, but i have a feeling in that case the Russians might has well pass directly the entire manual and specifications to the chaps at Nellis AFB…

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You forgot too late to modify QE class to CATOBAR without extensive and expensive modification.

This.
The reason why the British MOD made a red faced “turn back” on the “C” was precisely this one.

My point is more that if we the UK was to allow a deal of 12 Gripen’s with a limited weapons package we can limit the threat

For the foreseable future there´s no threat.

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Absolutely. DDM-NG is not done for that. However, its data are fused (despite Tomcat opinion) inorder to implement tactical situation.

Yes, agree

Rafale comes close but the body & wing block the view below the aircraft.

The Rafale cant feed images into a helmet like DAVE does, by using a pair of “fish eyes” the French got a huge coverage with just two sensors, but those images are hugely distorted, wich is entirely irrelevant for the job (detecting heat) they do, but are useless to feed into a pilot eyes (the poor chap would feel like he was on drugs).

lol.
their AF is in a tight financial spot, how about F-5 ?
that is one cheap mofo to operate, or perhaps F-50

If they want western equipment, then second hand Vipers or the F/A-50 (or the israeli Kfirs, but that is called “desperation”), if the Argies dont have their mind set on a western system, the JF-17 might be a good alternative. The rest, well, forget it.

The prosecutor refers to the bankrupcy of SAAB as the reason for the bribe.

If so, the guy´s an idiot!

Please…… His entire premise is wrong from the start. The F-22 may have issues with software upgrades, premature fatigue stress on tails, and inlet ramp damage, but people seem to forget that early blocks weren’t even supposed to be serving as combat coded aircraft in 2017. The commonly repeated myth that F-22 production was discontinued due to: “design faults”, “too expensive” are repeated on this forum often without any supporting documentation or reports. The last proposed production block had a procurement cost below 150 million in TY$.

Those comments just don’t correspond with the actual reasons stated by Gates, JCS, or Congress. The F-22 was cut, quite simply because Gates prioritized weapons that could be used in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress and the President sustained him. Gates stated that 187 F-22’s would suffice to meet any threat then foreseen (and history has shown his foresight to be flawed).

Entirely correct.

ps – The “Fly Away Unit Cost” (the recurring one) for FY 2006 was 135.322 million US$, had the USAF maintained the Raptor acquisition for, lets say, a decade…

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