That made little sense. More than likely it’s a shield for some equipment.

The UK may have had ungainly looking prop bombers, but Belfast and Armstrong among others sure made them pretty prop transports. They had it going pretty well in the Vickers VC-10 and other general utility transports. I always liked some of the lighter prop transports. The BAe 346 was a pretty airliner, which is a nice human transport to fly in. And their graceful designs have translated to A400M looking nice, too.

Yeah, he clearly didn’t notice their army and air force was mainly using French operational organization, using mainly French equipment across the board, dependent on French weapons for the majority of their needs. The UK is probably closer to fourth place behind the US and Germany when it comes to military acquisitions. Even that place is threatened by the sales from the Netherlands and Italy.

The generator doubles as a starter and is only capable of rotating the engine 10% of its peak RPMs. That is using inputs from a ground terminal, not on board electricity. The 2.5kW at 24v filtered is substantial output for a pair these motors.

Super Flankers are their best option. Roll the Su-27’s into a strike and ground attack role. Use the Su-35 for Air Supremacy. Tejas is not a good option for them, but Gripen fits. Saab has the technical skills to integrate R-73 and R-77 into the Gripen.

Its a metric driven by available electrical output. The F-5 doesn’t have an abundance of excess thrust available for electrical output, therefore its short search and detection ranges. Targeting and lock on range, due to its more focused use of that power, isn’t so terrible. I would think a re-engine program to the high output F125 engine would solve a lot of this limitation.

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Not anything remarkable from a military POV. The supercritical wing explored aerodynamics of underwing airflow as the primary source of lift, which Airbus had already proven.

Even more crazy, what if YF-16A used twin F404’s and the prototype of the F/A-18A used a single F100… Never mind.