Just sayin’….

On that note – has the C-2 ever been trialled or used as a tanker for the USN?

I don’t believe they use it because it’s cruise speed is just over a couple hundred knots. Too slow and vulnerable. The S-3 Viking ended it’s career playing some of that role. But apparently buddy packs and ARF from landbased assets are all the rage since retiring KA-6 and S-3.

Let’s go through the figures:
hat leaves 2.6 tons for external loads. Not a lot, true – but enough for full internal fuel, a buddy refuelling pack & 2 tons of external fuel, allowing at least 3 tons (how much will it need for take off, refuelling, reserves & landing?) to transfer to other Gripens after they take-off. Not ideal, but you should be able to send off a fully laden Gripen for every two take-offs or so.

Or commission a suitable straight wing asset that can do the job for 2-3 aircraft at a time. You’re still going to need straight wing assets for setting up the offboard radar pickets and cargo hauling. Helicopters can only do so much of those duties.

Seconded. As a liberal of the Adam Smith variety (i.e. a real liberal, one who understands what liber & liberalis mean), I resent all the Leftpondian perversions of its meaning.

Adam Smith by his very nature is liberal on one level then abhors to pro-establishment views in another level, with both truths running parrallel to each other. Nothing wrong with individual rights and the ability to exert one’s free sense. Nothing wrong with servitude to the glue that binds the state. We agree that liberalism has nothing to do with left-communal politics. But calling him an outright liberal is intellectually dishonest.

What’s the USA going to do about it? The previous embargo pushed Brazil to find new partners. Brazil is working on both launchers & satellites, & is planning to start launching Ukrainian rockets from its equatorial Alcantara launch site.

IDK, maybe if Brazil’s ambitions get too big the SLV’s might spontaneous explode on their launch platforms…

Brazil would need the associated space technologies to have use of ucav and standoff missile programs, something the U.S. does not want.

People compare the JF-17 to the MiG-21 because of the early confusion the media had between the JJ-7 trainer and the FC-1 programs. The JJ-7 is definitely an offshoot of the MiG-21/J-7 programs. In some ways it does look similar to the JF-17. But we know now they are not similar other than sharing basic superficial traits.

Not to be too negative, but Jurassic Park is almost 20 years old.