What are some aspects that make these long endurance, multi-shift aircrafts “comfortable”?

High back adjustable seats?
Rest areas?
Restrooms (obviously)?
Low intensity screens?
Favorable lighting conditions (i.e. the frequency of the florescent lights not interfereing with the refresh rates of monitors, etc..)?
What else?

Originally posted by seahawk
– storage of explosives will have to be in the upper parts of the carrier

Not neccesarily, there are such wonderful things as ordnance elevators in ships which keep the weapon system and its ordnance separated, sometimes by multiple decks.

But powder cats are a big liability wrt having yet another large magazine inside the ship.

Originally posted by PAF Fan
But teh Chinese did not shoot it down, the pilot got carried away and there was an unfortunate accident,

Yes, but there have been countless people even on this forum justifying the incident.

The point is that there is hypocrisy when people justify the EP-3 incident but violently denounce the Atlantique incident. I am not pointing my finger at anyone but just making a general comment.

My logic for the Atlantique:
If the Atlantique was over Pakistani territory when shot down: No justification for shoot down (even if it crossed into Indian territory during its flight)

If Atlantique was over Indian territory when shot down: Some justification can be made. It was a military plane over an enemy’s airspace a month after a rather nasty border war.

My logic for the EP-3:
The plane was over International waters and had every right to be there as mandated by several multilateral treaties which China is a signatory. No justification whatsoever for physically harming the plane.

Originally posted by PLA
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About Atlantique… I see a difference in a maritime training aircraft (maybe on a mission over the swamps) and su25 loaded with bombs doing the same as the other hundred sovjet planes did in Pakistan…

So you would also agree that playing aerial bumber cars with a EP-3, which could have been on training afterall, over international waters was also unjustified right? 😉

A steam catapult is a linear actuator. You must mean the EM catapult.

If the antenna arrays are that big for the Chilean Phalcons, how are they going to fit something equivalent in the rotodomes of the Indian Phalcons?

Or, is it that because the Indian Phalcons will have to have smaller arrays, the performance will not be as good as the Chilean Phalcons?

Well then, as an Australian, you should know that Israel doesn’t have a monopoly on being discriminatory.

If being discriminatory was a criterion for having a country’s right to exist called into question, would any major country survive the scrutiny?

It’s hard to face but Israel is not worse or better than anyone else.