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  • in reply to: General Discussion #221221
    St. John
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    So they will have to start making cars here to sell them here after Brexit.

    Cars are selling all the time, after Brexit NTBs alone could slow the supply of cars from the EU down to a trickle, not to mention jacking up the price on top of tariffs, so car manufacturers left in the UK will have the competitive advantage.

    And incur huge set-up costs that will add even more to the cost of the car…… and pay imports on materials and components etc. etc………

    Think we tried it before, anyway, it gave us the delights of the Marina, and Allegro and Princess…… How about we set up a state car and build……………………… is the Trabant prouduction line for sale?

    Set-up costs are not recurring, tariff and NTB costs are. Yes, the same tariff will have to be applied to some of the parts and components but manufacturers based here will still have a massive advantage over foreign manufacturers who will have the entire car (including labour costs) tariffed and have to pay for NTBs like SVA testing. SVA testing would also slow the supply of their cars down to a trickle as well, so they simply wouldn’t be able to meet demand or compete, no way no how.

    Labour unions gave us those crocks of crap.

    in reply to: Su-57 News and Discussion -version_we_lost_count!- #2116790
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    Are we never going to stop this absurd? You suddenly all know more about radar scattering than the inventors of PTD, it is ludicrous.

    The problem is that if we ignore features like this then one could just as easily make an argument for a clean Typhoon or Rafale being VLO. It’s details like this that determine it.

    in reply to: General Discussion #221225
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    Apart from the fact that Mark Carney didn’t say that JG, which is why I give this cheap and unreliable rag a wide berth….. other than that and all the other mistakes they got it spot on…..

    Now why is it when the narrative of a future specualtion suits your view, it’s stone hard fact, whereas when business leaders and intellectuals and experts in their field forecast future conditions based on their significant expereince it’s written off by you. Your biases cloud and inhibit any sensible and lucid reasoning.

    Some business leaders are likely to be biased based on where their current markets lie and are therefore resistant to change.

    What May needs to start doing is setting the tariffs and non-tariff barriers in preparation for a no deal. Provide certainty.

    in reply to: General Discussion #221266
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    “It will gain tons of extra sales in the UK after EU exports are tariffed and NTB’d out of the UK internal market.”

    Need to do your research boy, Ford stopped making cars in the UK in the early 2000’s, Ford production is engines and such in the UK, so every car will have a tariff added at the current state. The problem with many brexiteers is their fundamental lack of knowledge and then making things up.

    And where are these make believe extra sales coming from, just out of curiosity, what mass segment of the market that doesn’t own a vehicle right now and will suddenly flood the showrooms buying them? please explain.

    So they will have to start making cars here to sell them here after Brexit.

    Cars are selling all the time, after Brexit NTBs alone could slow the supply of cars from the EU down to a trickle, not to mention jacking up the price on top of tariffs, so car manufacturers left in the UK will have the competitive advantage.

    in reply to: Su-57 News and Discussion -version_we_lost_count!- #2116800
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    To stay serious here. There is also the High and low look down angle.
    Something tells me the Su-57 will enjoy a slightly higher mission altitude vs F-35. So how exposed are the top IRIST Bump on the Su-57 from Land based radars, and likewise lower flying planes.

    From the low-look angle the nacelles are its downfall. With that rear-end it could only hope for frontal stealth but the IRST scuppered that too.

    in reply to: General Discussion #221270
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    Do people really believe everything they read. Seriously? We can’t make our own body bags?”

    ….and such a manufacturing facility could be created and up and running, with contracts secured, and infrastructure and logistics and delivery framework set up in weeks? I think not……….

    Of course longer term it’s possible, but you can’t just turn on and off such capabilities.

    I’m sure we really could if it was an emergency.

    in reply to: General Discussion #221271
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    Not lies, not fear, not made up, but sad reality anf fact.

    It will gain tons of extra sales in the UK after EU exports are tariffed and NTB’d out of the UK internal market.

    in reply to: General Discussion #221276
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoD_Bo…luation_centre

    With the end of the Cold War, the site was renamed the Aircraft and Armament Evaluation Establishment (AAEE) in 1992. All experimental work was moved to the Defence Research Agency (DRA). Responsibility for the site passed from the MoD Procurement Executive to the Defence Test and Evaluation Organisation (DTEO) in 1993.

    During the this period, the station may have been involved in assisting the United States with its black projects. On 26 September 1994, after an aircraft crashed on landing due to a nosewheel collapse, the British Special Air Service (SAS) were scrambled to set up a perimeter around the airfield, while a USAF C5 Galaxy was redirected to the station. It is speculated that the crashed plane was an Aurora, a hypersonic spy plane.[20] Whatever it was, it was disassembled and returned to the US by the C5 Galaxy. Both the British and American Governments have refused to comment on the incident.

    in reply to: Rafale 2018 Thread: Europe's best Eurocanard #2116996
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    You’re welcome in this dream world. If a large internal fuel volume was such a huge benefit then everyone would build fatter fighters. :rolleyes:

    People have been building fatter fighters ever since WWI.

    in reply to: Rafale 2018 Thread: Europe's best Eurocanard #2117083
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    urban legend. Check.

    Err, nope, it’s a complete fact.
    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/cron/

    Bit on page 20.
    https://www.gao.gov/assets/230/224366.pdf

    It’s been a feature in stats since Vietnam. 1,244 SA-2s were launched to kill just 15 B-52s but aircraft flying at low level were picked off with ease. All you need at low level is some lucky git with an MG. If my air force was going to lose an aircraft, I’d want it to at least cost the enemy a long-range SAM or more.

    in reply to: Finnish fighter replacement revisited #2117104
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    Well here’s the marketing video.

    in reply to: 2019 F-35 News and Discussion #2117169
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    in reply to: General Discussion #221277
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    Glad to hear today that the government confirmed they are stockpiling body bags for a no deal brexit

    Do people really believe everything they read. Seriously? We can’t make our own body bags?

    in reply to: Finnish fighter replacement revisited #2117172
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    How could that be when you have some EU buyers still looking at the F-16 Block 70 and Slovakia that has already signed on to buy them?

    Finland is not Slovakia.

    in reply to: Rafale 2018 Thread: Europe's best Eurocanard #2117173
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    blah blah about stealth “magic”. It just means shorter time to detect and react for the opponent. Yes, it is useful. But if you ever went into a back seat looking down, even with doppler, it is difficult to differentiate a plane from clutter. Now lokk Rafale from above, pretty sleek shapes…

    That’s the exact opposite of what Desert Storm statistics show as regards ground-based air defences. And modern aircraft can look-down and shoot-down with ease.

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