Well, they will rename every unit into “Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader”. No Jagdgeschwader, Jagdbombergeschwader oder Lufttransportgeschwader anymore.
Status of Wittmund is unclear at the moment I think, because in the planned structure they are understrength, eg. only one squadron and not a full wing.
Hope that helps.

WVR isn’t exactly what the Raptor is made for. The dogfighting part should be done by the cheaper and more expandable platforms in the USAF.

oh, the X-35 is not an airplane? lol

Or the modified F-16 test airframe with DSI…

Unless it gains a lot of weight in development, the Kongsberg JSM would be an excellent fit for the Typhoon since its roughly in the same category as the Marte-ER. A Typhoon with CFTs and possibly heavier drop tanks carrying four JSMs-that’s some stand-off strike capability :diablo:!!

And why would any Eurofighter nation buy military hardware from Norway ? Maybe the Saudis won’t care about staged fighter competitions, but the original partner nations better should.

one thing I find surprising is that tendency to consider “useless” anything that “we” don’t have.

The french are the only ones to have a missile that acts as an IRST complement to its weapons system, and we see quite often people from other parts of the world claiming “it’s useless”… If it was, why would the french spend millions on developing such a system? It’s not like they are new to fighter business and have no clue what it is all about… What’s more, Does anyone here consider France as such a rich country that they can just throw away money as they have too much on their hands anyway?

For now, they use it as such, and seem quite happy with it (even if, as always, everybody would like a bit more, a bit better, and so on), so maybe there is an interesting use for it…

It is a cheap interim solution, until the new IRST is available. If it would be such a wonderful thing as you claim, nobody would talk about developing a next gen IRST for Rafale.

And Shiv, cool story. So really the aircraft with all the support assets on it’s side wins in a theorectical engagement ? Unbelievable ! :p

With all that money thrown away for all those pointless east asian competitions, they could have integrated at least two weapons.

Now they throw away even more money for salesman, instead of product improvement.

😡

As is typical from you, you’re talking bollyhocks. The Saudi jets diverted to Saudi Arabia were Tranche 2, and so are the Austrian aircraft.

Well, the original contract for 18 aircraft was split between T1 and T2 examples (and later upgrade of T1 examples to T2 standart).

But that never happened. As it stands now, all the T2 airframes have been traded for used Luftwaffe T1 examples amd the total order reduced to 15.
In short, Austria operates a pure T1 fleet. (With all the associated issues with obsoleszences).