A Christmas HAF :)….

nice camo! lets hope it sticks in flight 🙂

If, you are referring to the Super Hornet. It is a totally New Design and shares no Major Components with the similar looking F/A-18A-D Hornet.

You could probably Mig 21 bison to a 4.5 gen system 🙂
But whats the point? Its flightenvelope will still be same.
F-18 will have the same flaws for being original designed for 20 years ago. Long before even cad was used in the designface..

If India does partner with SAAB for the AMCA, it might offer interesting possibilities- Sweden could offer to purchase 2 squadrons of AMCA fighters in the 2025-2030 timeframe in return for the MRCA purchase.

It could do several things – reduce unit price, give Sweden a true 5th gen fighter that it has co-developed and allow it to partner in the sale of the fighter to other nations and build sub-assemblies and parts for the entire production run of the fighter. After all, in the 2020s it will be hard to sell the Gripen NG which isn’t shaped for stealth, all other things being equal thanks to upgrades or evolving technology insertions.

And India gains a partner who co-develops certain technologies and brings its integration expertise in as well and crucially, doesn’t have a side agenda like the sale of its own fighters, something that the US and Russia will definitely have.

I really like the idea, but think SweAF is most interested in a canard/delta variant like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAkXNhDH5vE
or
http://www.aereo.jor.br/2010/07/16/indonesia-e-coreia-do-sul-juntas-no-programa-de-caca-de-45%C2%AA-geracao/

This is in the timeframe beyond 2025..
But they can probably change its mind if they got good partner like india.

And it would be a great if Volvo Aero team up with GTRE for the engine!

Other intresting partners would be S Korea and Japan!

Welcome to Scooter’s Bizzaro-World! Where the Americans Always Win!:p

Good natured needling of Scooter aside, I was pretty certain that the Rafale was preferred by the Dilma’s predecessor, and that the Gripen NG was preferred by many in the industry due to ToT and offsets. The Super Hornet seems to be very much an outside chance.

As for the MMRCA, it may be more likely, but I’ve also heard that the Eurofighter probably leads there.

Have things changed?

i was only looking for any new sources, or any thougthful analysis 😉 but as always, none 😀

some progress!
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Deal-to-buy-126-fighter-jets-to-be-inked-by-mid-2011-IAF/articleshow/7123972.cms

Saw that figure on a Gripen fan site before and I think they took the 117kN of the GE 414 EPE into account and not only the 98kN of the 414G. 😉

well i didnt look into the source that well. 😉
but the F414G thust isnt specifide, only at least 98kN.
Its up to each customer define there needs and price, GE would not mind selling its latest EPE variant 😉

Sounding more and more like the Super Hornet may pull out both the MMRCA and FX2.:diablo:

what makes you get that idea? F-X2 seems really slim, and MMRCA seems to me longer shot than both F-16 and Gripen, and maybe even Rafale. ToT and size is probably its biggest downfalls.