Perhaps he had just the one spot in his yard to be patched.

When you have the boat & equipment – and lots of time due to being unemployed – then lots of things become “profitable” that corporations could never view the same way.

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True, but the A330MRTT are flying. Given that few of the existing customers even really use the boom it’s not a huge priority either.

Tell that to the RAAF, who were planning to use the boom for their P-8As and other aircraft (F-35A, etc), but can’t because it doesn’t work yet.

France May Scrap Russian Warship Deal over Ukraine Crisis

Two more Mistral for french navy?

More like two for export elsewhere – Turkey perhaps, or maybe India?

Also, don’t forget the other turboprop B-17, a fire fighter outfitted with four Darts taken from an ex-United Air Lines Viscount.

Here it is:

http://www.janes.com/article/35119/saab-to-offer-gripen-c-d-upgrades-pushes-exports

However, with the Gripen C and Gripen E sharing little in terms of common structures and systems, the only items likely to be cross-decked will be the windscreen and canopy, the outer elevons, the ejection-seat, the internal gun and conveyor system, and some other ancillary equipment.

The plan is that the SwAF will be left with 60 Gripen E and no Gripen C aircraft (the 15 Gripen Cs from the current inventory not included in the conversion contract will be retired) by the time the work is complete halfway through the next decade. In reality, the dearth of common parts means there will in fact still be 60 nearly complete Gripen Cs left at the end of the process, which should not require much refurbishment work to turn them into exportable aircraft.

http://www.air-cosmos.com/defense/saab-veut-rendre-le-gripen-plus-furtif.html translation:

We knew he had to carry more fuel, more weapons , while with a weapons system completely renovated. But the Gripen E , the latest evolution of the Swedish JAS39 single engine being developed by Saab in Sweden and Switzerland, should also be more stealthy. “We are contractually obligated to reduce radar signature equivalent of the device ,” said Björn Johansson today , chief engineer of the Gripen E program during a press conference held in Linköping in the stronghold the Swedish manufacturer .

If the means used to achieve this goal have obviously not been exposed in detail, however, the engineer noted that this increased stealth would be achieved ” by a combination of structural changes and new materials .”

New-build airframes incorporating structural changes and new materials, new radar and avionics, new engines.

Sounds like a lot of R&D specific to Gripen-E, as well as a lot of build cost.

They are. stop ******* lying. The two choices are : either leaving Ukraine and join Russia, or Return to 1992 constitution – in other words stray with Ukraine but have self-regulation like it was agreed but erroded by west Ukrainians throughout the years.

No. The May 1992 constitution declared Crimea an independent republic.

In 1994 Crimea nullified the May 1992 constitution, and over the next year created a new constitution in which it joined with the rest of Ukraine, with Crimea as a semi-autonomous region within the nation of Ukraine.