I wish the PA would paint their Mirage 2000s in Ghost scheme too! They’d look so unique and sexy!;-)

I think so too;-)

I find the Hill Grey scheme to be totally bliaahhh…;-)

Check this thread!

http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_viewtopic-t-2454.html

Spurg-

I don’t think the present US administration is rash in its decision making. They are part of a select few US administrations that have displayed significant strategic foresight and long-term thinking.

And George W. Bush, as he has displayed time and again, deliberately lets his opponents underestimate him and then surfaces where you least expect him;-)

I’m sure that a lot of people can say the same about the Turks but that’s not the point. The point is that the people do feel some sort of Islamic solidarity as much as the government is trying to promote Turkey as a secular, westernized state.

Any manned scenario I can think of is too complex to try and execute and in these types of operations, simplicity has no equal. That’s what leads me to Naval strike option.

Turkey would be at great risk of internal instability allowing such a strike package to pass through its borders, or originate from there, especially if the target was another Islamic state.

Sens that is definately how it is not paper, but it would be careless and irresponsible not to build redundancy and provide some doable fall-back scenarios for the guy who-mind you-is still in there;-)

When you pit the JSF in campaigns like OEF or OIF with virtually no air opposition and very primitive C4I threat environments sure, it has the luxury to rely on electronics and abort everytime a lightswitch goes off. However, in similarly leveled conflics (technologically) it is almost certain it will be coming down to street fighting. When countermeasures face countercountermeasures, when radars on both sides are heavily saturated by heavy use of EW activity…You get the picture, no SA, no ROE, no cool and stealthy BVR grinders.

In that environment a little more visibility from the canopy wouldn’t hurt-I think. Nor would a gun in the case of the TYphoon but that’s another matter altogether!;-)

Distiller, if you look closely you’ll see that the A&C models have received the new treatment where as the B remains the same. I assume that the lift fan forced them to make that burried canopy on A,B and C models in order to standardize, but have now opted to give the A&C models a better visibility canopy. If only they could get rid of the rail too! It looks sooo third generation to me!;-)

BTW, I suppose that they waited for the USMCs and the Brits to gauge how firm they was on their B orders since I suppose that differentiating the other two models will increase the Bs flyaway price-not the other way around since the B is the niche model here.