You are kidding right? The amount of cognitive dissonance and plain inability to acknowledge the reality, that your post depicts, scares me.

Cognitive dissonance? You have no idea what you’re talking about. Save yourself before it gets less dignified than that.

I think the Gripen NG has a lot to offer, its cheap and effective, a superb choice for those countries that are not intending to fight out of their home area, I’m not saying the Gripen couldn’t fight outside its area…
Its really the entry fighter of choice, its capabilities are being extended and its networking is also excellent, I’d expect a few orders for it because the NG solves some of the quirky bits from the old version..

The Gripen NG is a lovely plane and would be my first choice for the Swiss tender for example. But with Switzerland having three Typhoon operators immediately around them, I think the Typhoon’s user base might very well decide the deal.

The Typhoon project’s size promises a lot of stability and potential development, which surely has to be attractive for customers, even if performance was equal among all choices. And I’m keeping my fingers crossed for AESA and conformals. And passive MAWSs.

As for the F-35, for some reason I still expect a sticker shock once production actually starts. While I like the F-35 and think it’s a fantastic addition, I’m afraid it’s not going to be as cheap as promised.

I’ve noticed that a lot with the Typhoon as well. The problem in this case is context. Basically I said it (the F-22) has all-aspect stealth (which it does) then you come by next and imply that it doesn’t with “The rear of the F-22 has ‘a relaxed RCS reduction’ measures, this was part of the balanced approach to RCS and IR signatures“. If the intent wasn’t to contradict the initial point, and you subsequently state that it DOES have all aspect stealth then what was your point?

Perhaps that stealth isn’t binary and measured on its own? Just my guess.

The F-22’s rear might be less stealthy than its front yet still be more stealthy than the average 4th gen fighter.

That would fit the description of the F-22 having relaxed stealth requirements at the rear, yet still being kind of stealth compared to everything else out there.

All the “peace, dignity, and respect” that Ahmadinejad would accord the Israelis?

I have no clue what you are trying to discuss with that. What’s the point here and how does it relate to my post?

Don’t worry my little grammer nazi friend, the point flew right over your head and you never even saw it, lolz. 🙂 (See if you can figure it out)

So, is there any point you actually have to make or are you just going to keep insinuating things about other people?

Just answer me some questions:

1. On which issue was Iraq invaded in the second Gulf War and public support rallied: Saddam’s past crimes or Iraqi possession of WMDs?

2. Why doesn’t the US set places like Burma and Darfur straight? Where is the difference to Iraq if it was about the foreign government’s crimes against its own people?

3. Which WMDs have been found in Iraq past 2002 that were functional at the time of invasion?

Please, just answer them and link any claims to sources. No evasion, no personal attacks, no instruction to look it up myself.

do you think Saddam never had any WMD? never mind the fact plenty have been found in iraq since the war eh…
Que the “b..b..b..but there was only a few sarin gas artillary shells, nothing to worry about! he never had none hurr hurr” http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/Iraq_WMD_Declassified.pdf now que the “omg fox cannot be trusted hurr durr hurr” oh and lets not forget he used them on his own population, be kind of funny if your leader used WMD on you and your family and were never bought to justice for it wouldnt it Satorian,wouldnt it?

Nice. Could you write this again, this time without the trolling polemics?

The Halabja poison gas attack occurred in the period March 16–17, 1988, during the Iran-Iraq War. Chemical weapons (CW) were used by the Iraqi government forces in the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja, killing thousands of people, most of them civilians (3,200-5,000 dead on the spot and 7,000-10,000 injured[1]). Thousands more died of horrific complications, diseases, and birth defects in the years after the attack.[2] The incident, which Human Rights Watch (HRW) defined as an act of genocide, was as of 2008 the largest-scale chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history.

1988? How does that correlate with ‘now’ in 2002, especially as there had been the first Gulf War inbetween?

i’m guessing your of the opinion that Saddam should not have been held accountable for this and bought to justice.sad. Oh btw genocide too. He’d still be in power now if was up to the spineless anti war types.

It seems you are guessing a lot and a lot of it is wrong. Sad.
Why was the war sold on supposed WMDs then? I can’t remember Colin Powell standing in front of the UN and showing slides about Saddam’s personal crimes. No, they actually contained bad renderings of supposed WMD transports. Then again he had perfect intel: A rip-off of an outdated student paper. Brilliant.

If it’s just about righting what’s wrong: Go take on China and Tibet then. Where’s the passion for Burma? What’s going on in Darfur? Why are there still so many atrocities in Africa?
Come on, where are cheesy speeches that demand justice and right for those poor sods?

Of course Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, we even have the reciepts to prove it!

You know, if you have to quote/paraphrase Bill Hicks, at least have the courtesy of stating the source. 🙂

Now people might argue that any detection will increase the likeliness of being shot down by other assets, for example directed fighters. That is true, but if 20 F-22 attack there is hardly the time to vector each fighter into WVR attack position.

What about a bunch of F-22 egressing from a Deep Strike, their backs tracked by radar network and information being transferred to SAMs close to the FLOT, who in turn use command guidance for their AAMs based on this data?

F 15E gained weight not only to become multirole, but to have 16,000 hours lifetime and to be able to pull 9G with all fuel (6 t internal, 4,8 CFT and 5,4 t in 3 drop tanks) plus 3,5 tons of weapons (total weapon load at 5 G is 11,5 tons).

Are you absolutely positive the F-15E is cleared for 9g with a full load (or even tanks alone)? No CAT III or anything like that at 6.5g or 5.5g? 😮