Given that French Tiger HAPs were achieving 90% availability* in operational conditions in Afghanistan, I’d say it’s more a damning indictment of the Australian defence forces.

Even at entry to service back in the mid-2000s the ALAT was achieving > 70%.

* on-par or better than the AH-64s in theatre, which have had 30 years and a lot of US Army money invested in debugging them and sorting-out the logistics.

Pretty much that, the ALAT Tigers have been in continous combat for eight years now, in A´Stan, Mali, Lybia, CAR, they´ve been operationaly used from the Himalayas in Winter, to the Sahara, to aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships in the Med, an “unmitigated success”. The Spanish and the Germans have also used it in anger, these last ones have one complain… they´ve bought the thing without a gun…

Trudau was voted in to cancel the F 35. Imagine he backs off of that and then the next day, one gets shot out of the sky in Syria ?

The typical Canadian voter doesnt know whats an F-35, or a Super Hornet or a Sopwith Camel. The typical Canadian voter, just like the Portuguese, the German, or the New Zealander voter doesnt give a dam about military hardware. Trudeau could have said that the Hornets were going to be replaced with Hawker Hurricanes that he would still win the majority.

something strange, if that includes acquisition, once you remove 60 fighters (286 -> 226), the total should be reduced by the amount of airframes not bought and still, the amount doesn’t move, obviously something not right in that calculation

The 225 Rafales plus Mirage 2000 were described first in the 2013 Livre Blanche, the program costs number was an older one. There´s no recent description of the Rafale program costs.

it’s been posted a couple of days ago, the sensor fusion too often results in ghost contacts… contacts representing the same object but that the computer doesn’t fuse into one contact on the screen, but rather separate contacts for each source pointing to it, and the way around it (unsatisfactory as you can imagine) is to shut down entries to keep only one to see it… basically, as long as they can’t make sure that every contact, even if detected by several sensors, is represented by one single and accurate signal, they can’t use it in a combat zone

Identical situations were reported in the past with the likes of the Rafale and the Typhoon, they were corrected.
There´s an amazing story of four EDA Phoon´s, severall years ago in an ATA exercise sudenly finding out that they were facing the bleeding entire D-Day air armada, their screens presenting dozens of contacts going straight to them, they bugged out of there. The entire force facing them were TWO Mirage F1.
Each of the Mirage was multiplied by three (Radar, IRST and Praetorian), then those six contacts by each phoon were multiplied by four.
How much of the above was actually the truth… I wasnt there…

Keep calm. It’s only an answer to TomcatVip to say that the escape module in Moscow is from an F-111A shoot down in Vietnam and not from an EF-111….

Ok, thanks

Ends in “stan”?

LOOOOLLLLLLLLLL

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/02/kazakhstans-president-is-tired-of-his-countrys-name-ending-in-stan/283676/

https://cont.ws/@predator85vk/484361

5 Nebo-M complexes delivered in 2016 apparently.

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/2375267.html

Some good pics of the S-400 complex that went online in Feodisya, Crimea. Complete with priest nonsense.

HOLY S***, sorry, SAM!