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Anything you can actually post?:rolleyes:

A quick google search reveals nothing.

Ain’t gonna happen.
1. Israel doesn’t need 50 F-22s. (Isn’t that about 25% of what the USAF will get?) Plus they’re too expensive…and then there is the export issue.

2.The anti-Israel lobby in the U.S. will not allow it as being too “de-stabilizing” for the region.
The Islamic world already hates the U.S. for allowing Israel to survive, the sale of F-22s would just make them madder.
If a democrat is elected president in 2008, then the deal is really dead.
Years ago, the democrats were big supporters of Israel, nowdays, too many of their support groups (liberals..including many American Jews, immigrants, minority groups) are openly hostile to Israel…especially on defense issues.

No to mention that Israel has a reputation for passing technology to China- that will certainly not work in their favour.

Irbis-Shirbis. 😉 😀 :p NIIP has been busy hardselling AESA designs to the IAF, and probably anticipate giving workshare to DRDO as well.
The beauty of the Flanker airframe is that it can carry a huge sized AESA set, which can put out a lot of microwave energy.
Having said that, who knows, the Irbis might well join the IAF, just in time for the KS-172. 😉 :diablo:

Now an AESA Irbis (lets call it Irbis-A) would be an excellent idea and offer awesome capabilities! Yet another reason why the MMRCA tender should be scrapped and a further 100 or more Su-30MKI’s ordered instead. Indeed an upgrade for the MKI with AESA, AL-41F, Thales TopSight, an upgraded optical system (maybe OLS-35 based) and some other goodies would make for easily the most capable fighter outside the US!:diablo:

for such a large submarine why is there
(a) no VLS tubes
(b) no pumpjet propulsor

in the cutaway drawing ?

It has a pump jet propulsor and it can fire tomahawks out of the torpedo tubes. One of the articles linked above mentions that it carrys 38, in terms of weapons load it is similar to the Virginias which are also pretty close to the Astutes in terms of size.:diablo:

This thread seems to have followed the same course as the life of the V-force, its gone from fascinating bombers to boring tankers!:D 😀 😀

I don’t know. JSOW definitely isn’t in the class of a *working* JASSM let alone a JASSM-EX and I still think it would be far cheaper to fix JASSM (since Lockheed is the one that should be footing the bill) than to start from scratch. On the other hand if RATTLRs comes to anything (and it’s got competion there from HyFly) maybe JASSM will die a deserved death.

Well JSOW-ER has a reported range of some 300NM (about 580KM) on paper it probably is not going to match the JASSM or any improved variants but at least it might work!

I would be surprised to see RATTLRS or HyFly produce viable affordable weapons systems for an incredibly long time- potentially decades.

The Russians need to make there mind up. On one hand they rant about how destabilising and aggresive the US missile shield is, but on the other they protest that their ICBM’s can penetrate it. They cant have it both ways.:rolleyes: