That is truly hot air^^ Doubt Germany, France etc will follow suite.
Hell it looks like IAPO still get avionics from Thales(see Su-30SM of the Knights)
SSJ have no problemo eighter it seems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enefQmDOCGQ

Such idea is more suited to sound smart at domestic domain.. alltough i question the “smart” quotes.

Interestly, the RusNavy is deploying the meanest and largest Battle group sinse breakup of SU as we speak, and it will arrive ouitside Syria in a few days, and with that Boris the clovn here is talking about a no flight zone with Kerry.. how truly disepointing..

US is still tramping around like a headless chicken over Syria. They still have no clear goal(End goal) for Syria.

Oh, and here is one more from the righteousness club; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoLVysMp2HI

I’m not seeing Assad and Russia with any clear answers for Syria future, but having to listening to these nutters are too much for me.

I have to say I don’t approve of current foreign policy, it seems to be about upsetting the status-quo and them blaming and sanctioning Russia if they object/intervene.

it looks like LM claim 8% range improvement for F-35 with DT on the pic above from the norwegian request, so its still apples to apples
http://forum.keypublishing.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=249021&stc=1&d=1476583463
then there is also the fact that like all fighters, it was designed for DT for a reason, a modular approach on a mission to mission basis

how did you arrive to the conclusion every mission is going to be 800 nm ?
it disqualifies F-35 from ever execute a mission in the first instance, not to mention EF.

i think CPFH went up since janes study, for all a/c, so while the scale is still valid, the absolute numbers are no longer in the ballpark

Not really because it’s not carrying as much external fuel. And the optimism of the range figures for an untested NG are also in questionable. Do they include dropping the tanks etc. because the F-35 figure is with retaining the tanks as it was for a recon mission.

Ever heard of IFR?

The scale isn’t valid either. I could quote $1/hour for an aircraft that isn’t in service yet. And IIRC the cost was for a Gripen C.

Yes, because the Google back-taxes in France represent underpayment of taxes over ten years!

Even the article you linked says that…

Even is the whole of the ‘tax-dodging’ for the EU was recovered by the UK alone it would barely cover the current UK budget deficit at today’s pound / dollar rate.

I agree about Amazon (and other mail-order companies). They should pay zero corporation-tax but increased VAT based on delivery address; that would also increase the VAT take from mail-order companies that are actually based abroad.

And how many companies are there? What about the affect that has on borrowing and interest payments on a cumulative basis?

Well the UK economy is about 1/6th of the EU, so 1/6th of that $76bn is likely ours, or about $13bn/year. Now add that up over ten years, apply interest on borrowing and you have $130bn extra debt, except each year it’s multiplied by (1+[interest rate/100]). It adds up and that’s just corporation tax alone, not individual taxes.

So you’re looking to pass the cost on to consumers?

I’m not going to get drawn into a running battle on this one. I don’t say that Assad is the root of all the problems but certainly ones which have since (the UK parliamentary vote against airstrikes on the Syrian government military infrastructure) developed would not have done so in the same way.

At that point in time, Russia only felt able to cause obstruction through the Security Council and the UN, whereas the UK/US inaction after chemical weapon use served to demonstrate to Russia that there was no stomach for Western military involvement against Assad.

We’ve already tried all this before though, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya. You remove the bad guy and all the even worse guys come out to play. There simply isn’t enough moderate secular rebels in Syria to form a democratically elected government, so what you’ll get at best is an Islamist government, see Egypt for how that ends up. So basically applied to Syria, you get the Syrian regime, minus Assad back in control and that’s actually the best possible outcome. For worst possible outcomes, see Libya and Iraq.