Hooray!!

Well, hopefully the start of a long and useful career for this great aircraft. Any info about performance so far? Wondered what the test pilots thought of her on first impressions.

A solution?

Could it be possible to re-design future aircraft with a sealed cockpit and crew compartment, with only external access? No-one from the passenger compartment could then get into the cockpit.

I know that this may cause some problems, but i don’t think there are any that aren’t fairly easy to overcome. Just a thought.

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eurofighter isn’t what we could call a modern fighter, F22 is, Rafale is, even block 60 is or the 2000-9!

Sorry? This does sound more than a little biased, and unfounded in reality. Give the Typhoon a chance, it seems that everyone here gets a real kick out of mocking it. Besides, with 620 required by the partner AFs, even with the new orders for Singapore and Saudi I don’t think Rafale sales will overtake Typhoons.

Its just really disappointing to see Typhoon miss its chance to be great, like so many other projects the Uk gets into.

What to say?

No one posts because there isn’t much to say, really. So some pilots made a minor navigation error, big deal, but at least the kids got thier own flying display 😀

M2k best

I would choose the M2k for the following reasons
Already in service
Better strike capability
Better BVR capability
More weaps avaliable

As M2k is already in service it would be much easier to buy some more as opposed to buying a new a/c they have no experience with

It is much better at mulit-role as well, so india would get more bang for their buck
Also, given that the main strategic threat is Pakistan, who do not have a BVR capability yet, this gives an M2k an upper hand over the MiG.
And as pointed out already, there are many more avaliabel weapons for the M2k.

Still, all this said, If the Su30 were offered here as well, i would be inclined to go for that. But hell, thats probably just cause i love Flankers!

For the UK-
Harrier Gr.7s for CAS
Tornado Gr.4s for carpet bombing
WAH-64 Apaches to sweep up the survivors
Eh-101 Merlins to get you out of there.

Sure as hell wouldn’t say no to some A-10s or an AC-130 though!

Albainian AF

I don’t see that Albania really has a requirement for a fighter force. They have no real strategic enemies, so the only reason to have fighters would be for counter-instugency or air policing from terrorists ( but how likely is that?). Why not just save on the fighers and buy a modern fleet of helicopters, transport planes and if need be some cheap air-ground capable planes (e.g. Alpha jets or Su-25s). I think this would suit Albania’s needs much more effectively.