It was more drive home the point that targets will be equipped with an ole AK-47

Good luck waiting 45 minutes for your prop or UCAV to arrive. Listen, go speak to troops who have fought out there, they DO NOT appeciate the thought of some dumb a** slow prop plane taking 45 mins to arrive and would rather a fast mover show up in 5 or 10 minutes and blend the group of sometimes up to 250 very heavily armed ‘goat herders’ to mush. Those guys on the ground don’t give a hoot if the enemy is armed with AK’s as the simple fact is an AK round is still lethel, lets not forget the RPGs and IEDs too which convieniantly slipped past your post, they just want fast effective support that arrives as soon as possible and the only way to do that at the moment is the fast movers, hell even A-10s are to slow for many troops liking, taking alot longer to arrive on station.
It simply cannot be stressed enough that a prop is freakin useless to the guys on the ground.

So the Indians are agreeing on the Russian version?

Well they would have to agree to some extent yes, If they didn’t then the two designs may have bee so far apart India may have said we don’t it like that, much like the British had some say in the F_35 design, if the two couldn’t agree at an early stage there would have been real problems.

Bingo.

It doesn’t mention it being the Indian version being the version to have finally been agreed on the design for, if it did I’d say yeah you’re right but as it is it could be the main version, afterall the design won’t be much different bar the avionics fit.

Indian Air force chief states that Inter-Governmental agreements for design and development of fifth generation fighter aircraft has been concluded.
http://www.ptinews.com/pti%5Cptisite.nsf/0/5C9B1310979EB2C6652575410041C618?OpenDocument

So from that it seems they have only just agreed on the design and development, two very important words that show this machine is not yet even built yet in the prototype stage considering they have only just “agreed on the design” to use the Indian Airforce Chiefs words. Seems futher delayed then anyone previously thought 😮

Why would you want to operate over hostile airspace when you could operate outside it with standoff weapons? Storm Shadow, Taurus etc I say, why let an aircraft, and most importantly, the pilot take the risk of getting his ar$e shot to bits when you can let the missile take the risk. Again, like I said before, do a little research before you knock it. :rolleyes:

The likes of Storm shadow and other standoff munitions are all well and good for fixed targets, for a tank battalion, less good to useless. No good relying on stand off systems if you have to gain air superiority over hostile airspace to protect your own ground forces either.

Jesus! Ignorant or what! Instead of saying stuff like that, why don’t you do a little research about Typhoon, it’s easy, google it, check out the official website. look it up!

:rolleyes:

Hold up, we have one group of people saying it was never meant to operate over hostile airspace with S-300 and 400s yet now its changed to be a multirole strike fighter. I’m curious, do you have to wait for the enemy armour to move onto British land before the Typhoon can attack it because thats whats implied by many who say it will not and was not meant to operate over hostile airspace. Unless of course you’re planning to bomb yourself it sounds pretty much useless for A-G if it cannot fight its way to where the ground targets and if theres any sort of decent air defenses there in hostile lands its stuffed. Sounds great! :rolleyes:

“Massive pinch of salt” involves NO figures.

100* AoA and 40 kt NEGATIVE speed is already BEYHOND a Cobra maneuvre parameters.

Basicaly you have NO argument here…:cool:

Woooosh
That was the sound of the point flying right past you and you don’t even realise. Pretty funny.

It was not meant as an attack, just voicing the reality. USA is a democracy and as you said tha people did not approve the Iraq war because it turned out to not be as easily won. Future presidents will take warning and refrain from wars that can become long and/or costly.

The actual war was won in a few weeks, keeping the peace and getting a new administration onto its feet was the tough part but the insurgency has now been pretty much crushed thanks to adaptive troops and equipment.