Indians don’t use link 16. Both aircraft have to be updated with Indias own ODL data link.

Could Eurofighter count on Saudi support ? They have this overhauling facility in SA and maybe they don’t have given up on final assembly yet.
This way they could produce the combined orders auf SA, UAE and Oman.

Maybe not that likely, but as salesman I would right now talk to the Saudis about it.

Of course experience tells us such projects allways come on time and budged. :p

I find it kinda funny to speculate about future variants while in the real world tranche 3B is effectively dead and tranche 3A just some more T2 birds.

When I look in charts from 2001 I miss the integration of Metor, Taurus/Stormshadow, Brimstone and JDAM series of bombs.

No ASM’s identified for integration. No engine update. Oh great, but we are commited to an AESA radar, that unfortunately will be delivered with aircraft that won’t ever get build anyway (T3B).

Best we can hope for is a limited MLU and a wider arry of integrated weapons.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/national/national/general/australia-battling-to-keep-fighter-contract/2301531.aspx?storypage=1

Delays take their toll from smaller buiseness partners.

I have seen many postulate that he sees the F-35 as the deathnell of the European fighter production capability.

And that is wrong in exactly which way ? With Italy and the UK joining the JSF efford, the Tornado replacement (and Panavia GmbH) was dead.

Till today, I see no replacement for it.

Any news about Oman ? Read today the Omanis have indicated interest in F-16’s.

There are pictures of Rafales with M2K’s, Tiffies with Tornadoes and lonely Gripens. Somehow I miss pictures of joint operations.
I mean isn’t “joint” the buzzword of at least one and a half decade by now ?

Back in 1991 there where at least CAP’s in mixed formations. 🙁