Lol not very informative but entertaining nonetheless. However I don’t know who found their catch phrase but IMO they should fired him/her.

“We’re Gripen pilots, we fly”… no kidding! I wasn’t really expecting them to walk to their targets with their GBU on their backpack lol…

they refering to fast turnaround, high availability, low maint. Maybe even the low operational cost i weighted in. An AF afford more flight with the gripen than competitors. Thats why “we fly” and aren´t on the ground.

I know what causes a wing tip vortex. What I dont understand is why plane designers dont do more about it. Most people know that planes that have wing tip tanks have better range since the tanks block the vortex drag.

So my question is why dont they just put end plates on the wings to prevent the pressure wrap around that causes the vortex an hence the drag? I know a lot of newer planes have the turned up wing tips that apparently does away with some of this problem since they go have better range. However it seems to me that a full end plate would do a better job like the old wing tip fuel tanks.

There must be a simple answer to this but I have not ever got a straight easy to understand answer.

i would think flutter effects for supersonic ACs are the main thing against it and maybe RCS. Planes like Mirage F1 and F-16 do use on-tip missiles to reduce vortex.

The most beautiful Canadian design…

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what is that?

Are there going to be Air-to-Air battles in future?
Why not use all drones w missiles andr drones with radars?

It looks like a parts bin special, like they’ve selected parts of different aircraft that don’t match. Mirage was stunning, elegant and simple. Typhoon looks like an evolution of the Mirage line in some resects.

Rafale looks like a much older design than other 4.5 gen aircraft.

the only thing that “sticks out” and arent good looking is the fuel probe. I could have lived without that…

Lift is also drag, so if you plan on flying really fast it’s counter productive
to have lift, but OTOH it’s good for turn, especially at alt. where the high speed will also take place,
so there will be priorities that dictate what it will gravitate towards

bodylift makes you wont need as much winglift, and therefore, smaller wing needed and therefore less total drag. Also when the wings and body blends together aerodynamic effects makes it less daggy.
The perfect example is the x-48.

those where the “MIGs” in the movie “Top Gun”