Legs too short…and can’t loiter around for long not very good on patrol mission that most intersepters are usually on.

true since this is a rocket based aircraft, it’ll need a air intake and some other things but good for POINT defense interceptor. which is what Mr Distiller seems to be aiming for. It’s got high mach, high acceleration, everything he asked for. It is not in the class of say the MiG-25, but more like an F-104 on steroids

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hey you shouldn’t talk that way about your father luke, after all it’s all heriditary :dev2: you’re not out of the woods yet 😀

Birch Barlow the 3rd,

how about a modernized version of this or something based on this

PLAN have been trying out its planned blue water fleet, partly to intimidate its neighbours. Seriously I don’t see that JSMDF is that much stronger than PLAN at any point that the PLAN would have no chance against JSMDF.

Realistically this situation won’t get anymore uglier than this, since Japan have doubts as to if China is willing to act tough like it once had. The reason behind these action Japan took is to prevoke Beijing and see where the chinese draw the line.

There absolutely won’t be any “trade war.” Chinese economy strives on going forward. The Japanese have been talking about withdrawing it’s investment for ages. Please take a look at chinese foreign reserves and you’ll see that the Japanese loans are but a drop in the bucket. But if limited conflict breaks out then the chinese might consider a 100% or 200% levy on all Japanese imports just to put strain on the Japanese industries and covertly pressure Tokyo to come to some understanding where both parties could actually share the resources around the islands.

tough talk on japanese economy when in reality, Japan heavily invested much needed capitol into China during the 70’s and 80’s, just go ask your everyday person in Liaoning how much the investment has helped them, and please none of your nationalistic sunshine 🙂

hammy, you might wonder why they put so much effort in replacing Russian parts (like engine) while they have much easier another few hundred LULKA-Saturn AL31F engines. Licensing and Chinizing. We hear the same about LCA where the componetns are replaced by Indianzed parts.

Have you ever thought that the Chinese like their parts better than the Russians. The case is simple, they have a contract not to sell, the Chinese are unlikely to break that contract because they’re still interested in acquiring other Russian stuff. Until some kind of rift occurs again, it is unlikely they will risk their relations with Russia to sell new J-11’s to Pakistan, but spare parts may be something else which is why I suggested Pakistan acquiring their Su-27’s from elsewhere. Of course due to your nationalistic insecurities you brought in the LCA when the subject is the Su-27 and J-11 :rolleyes:

i thought the obvious would be obvious 🙂

Dassault calls EADS tactic as “dirty” and unfair

By John Goh

Dassault has claimed the EU arms conglomerate, EADS, as dirty and unfair according to a senior executive.

European Aeronautic Defence and Space (EADS) South East Asia, is alleged to have offered executives at Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA), a selection of British, German, Italian and Spanish women in order to convince authorities to select the Eurofighter Typhoon .

When contacted, DSTA confirmed the offer from EADS but denied any dealings as they felt that the British women had bad teeth, the German women too masculine, the Italian women were already screaming at them, and the Spanish women as too hairy.