I believe the US and Israel has reestablished the firewalls that are meant to keep US tech from leaking out. That was one of the prime conditions for Israel to be allowed back into the F-35 program. If those firewalls are deemed OK for export grade JSFs, they should be OK for export grade Raptors. If Israel can guarantee those firewalls, with the penalty of being b!tch slapped if they dont, then there should be no problems with the IDFAF operating the F-22.

A sub’s main ballast tanks and trim tanks are designed for the weight and size of the sub. If one welds a plug in section, those tanks will need to be suitably resized. What happens if there isn’t any more room to resize the tanks? Also, the motor and gear reduction system is optimized for the weight of the sub, what happens when a few hundred more tons are added along with meters of lenght? Well, the motor will have to work harder to achieve the same speeds as before the refit. Outcome? Needing to either (a) revamp the electricals of the sub so that the motor isn’t prematurely burnt out or (b) insert a new motor.

This doesn’t even begin to cover the fact that due to motor working hard, the battery life will be deminished. Which means that the number of batteries will need to be increased. What if there isn’t any more space to increase the batteriers and to increase the ballasting? Well, you just got yourself a sub that is subobtimal in endurance and suboptimal in handling. Congradumalations.

Dont think its supersonic , I dont see the A/B there , Just passing through some cloud hence the effects.

What makes you think that the LCA needs AB to go SS in clean config?

We only choose to imagine the obvious connections like companies giving away tech. No one this day and age “gives” away their tech. Sell? Maybe. Codevelop? Very likely. But give it away? That too, core competence technologies? It’s like asking LM to depart with its RCS predicting softwares used in F-22/35 design optimizations. In other words, one will have to pry it out of their cold dead hands. Why would other companies would willy nilly give away their core competence. I can understand giving away free vacations or free cars to “lobby” congressmen but no company gives away their core competency for something as fickle as congressmen’s loyalties.

So, you’re saying that Raytheon might have deliberately gave away ATFLIR technologies to the Israelis so that the Israelis could compete with Raytheon’s ATFLIR with the Litening II?

Do not realize how crazy that sounds?

Well, if you are willing to persuade me that current Israeli developments are not just a follow-on technology gained from the US, you can go on.. You have every right to have your own opinion.

Influenced? Sure, why not? The way you make it sound is that the Israelis are just rebadging US stuff with IAI/ELTA labels on them. That is clearly not the case.

What is more believable – that a country with some 6.5 mil citizens is able to outtrick, develop and mass-produce technologies that the whole European Union is battling with?

The problem might not be the 6.5 million people, rather, maybe you give the EU more credit than you ought?

I mean how can Israel possibly develop all those things themselves? Them being ickle Joos and all :rolleyes:

I can retort, if there is no paranoia, why does the CCP/govt put limit on the kind of information that its citizens can access?