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June 12, 2009 at 3:41 pm in reply to: F-15SE Silent Eagle – Boeing's "4.5 generation" wild card #2444405

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Didn’t Boeing said that radar blockers are offered, but all depends on government clearance?

June 12, 2009 at 3:32 pm in reply to: Even better news for the F-35. Lipstick on a pig, according to Janes #2444406

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Now I’m confused. I thought there was a Su-35 accident of some sort several months go? :confused:

Quite a while ago there was a crash during a highspeed taxi trial. This was covered in a seperate thread here in these forums. Maybe you got confused by the IAFs Su-30MKI crash a while ago?

June 12, 2009 at 12:22 am in reply to: F-15SE Silent Eagle – Boeing's "4.5 generation" wild card #2444556

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New and simple marketing video, at least I haven’t seen it before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn6nx_GGERQ&feature=related

June 12, 2009 at 12:05 am in reply to: Eurofighter Typhoon news II #2444560

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First RSAF Typhoon handed over

It is said that the first 2 Typhoons have been handed over to the RSAF yesterday on 11th June 2009. I hope to be able to provide links in the near future.

June 11, 2009 at 11:49 pm in reply to: Germany appearantly contemplates reducing Eurofighter order #2444563

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I have to disagree here. Raptor unit cost is about $150 million and that includes every capability in the current block of AC. That includes AESA it includes the Avionics, it includes the current software code it includes AIM-120, AIM-9X, and SDB integration. While it does not include all future planned upgrades such as HOBs it does include things that Tiffie lacks. further if Raptor where built in numbers like Tiffy there should be no doubt that the price would come down even more. Only an idiot could not grasp the simple fact that having multiple assembly lines like Tiffy makes for a very expensive plane.

Development costs are not covered by your 150 mln figure and, neither is support equipment. So your comparion lacks.

June 11, 2009 at 9:15 pm in reply to: Germany appearantly contemplates reducing Eurofighter order #2444618

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No doubt upgrading Typhoon to enable it to be competent against today’s threats has added significantly to the cost. the reality is that it costs somewhere around $140 million dollars to produce a truly combat worthy Tiffy. All those contract numbers that where trotted out about by the tiffy cheerleaders as proof that it is an $80 million dollar plane do not take into account thinks like DAS, AESA, A2G development, IRST, Meteor integration, etc. In other words for$80 million you get an airshow aircraft not much more.

Yes but that’s the same for any type. If you go this way your Raptor easily costs 250 mln $+ 😉

June 11, 2009 at 4:25 pm in reply to: Saab JAS 39 Gripen Info # 2 #2444692

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Exactly, I heard 500, 750, 850, 1000, etc. etc. Which, is why I said I needed an official source or at very least a reliable one. Before I would concede that it in fact had “1000”. Sorry, I can’t see why “some” consider that so unreasonable????

Really, at this stage all we know for sure is the Gripen NG AESA Radar. Will have the frontend of a Selex (Model unkown?) and the Rearend of the SAAB’s PS-05/A…………….

Yet, some are claiming it has this many “Modules” and it can do this or that???

Personally, I will have “no problem” conceding that it has “1000 T/R Modules” when the information becomes public. Yet, I am not going to accept every opinion until such time it is supported by fact…………..

You obviously have a problem. Countless sources has been provided stating that an AESA aboard the Gripen would have 1000 TRMs, that the Vixen XXX stands for the number of modules has been stated as well. Despite all this you still wait for another source? Sorry but that’s ridiculous!

June 11, 2009 at 2:53 pm in reply to: Even better news for the F-35. Lipstick on a pig, according to Janes #2444717

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Two out of four is 50% Or do they have six now?

There is 1 aircraft scrap out of 3. The other airframe is just for fatigue testing. So To my math it’s 33.333…% 😉
3 aircraft were planned for flight testing and another airframe for fatigue testing. One aircraft has recently crashed and I doubt they have pulled out another airframe out of their a**es. The image of the 904 in that hall was in fact the 3rd flying prototype.

June 11, 2009 at 11:27 am in reply to: Latest (14May2009) F-35 Program Brief #2444772

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Thanks for sharing, but it seems like a lot of stuff has been directly adopted from years old publications/briefs.

Empty weights:
F-35A: 29,036 lbs
F-35B: 32,161lbs
F-35C: 32,072 lbs

Seems not to have changed in this “updated” brief:diablo:

But anyway what I ever assuemed in relation to service ceilling:
Ceiling: 50,000 ft+

Interesting that they already list the F-136 either.

June 11, 2009 at 10:53 am in reply to: Rafale news VI #2444780

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Well the current resolution is certainly not sufficient to allow “indentification”. Tracking yes but indentification no. The AESA technology should offer submetric SAR resolution and thus allow “indentification” of mooving targets like the F35 will with automatic detections and classification boosting the situation awarness.

It says “indication” which refers to being able to detect and track or at least display moving targets. And it doesn’t need AESA to achieve submetric resolution either.

June 11, 2009 at 10:30 am in reply to: Germany appearantly contemplates reducing Eurofighter order #2444783

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I think you are all missing the interesting point of the article.

That comes to 102 Euros a pop where I come from. That’s $142 million or 87 million pounds at today’s exchange rate.

Where is Jacko at a time like this? I need him to explain to me how this could be so. How could the actual price be greater than the initial contract price?

Due changing requirements (DASS was just ordered in 2001 for example) and the inclusion of development costs. Germany hardley paid some 9.5 bln € on tranche 1. T2 was 4.6 bln €.

June 10, 2009 at 2:32 pm in reply to: Rafale news VI #2445031

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With Paris having so far ordered 128 Rafales, and expected to add around 60 more before year-end, the type is widely perceived as being overdue in securing an overseas sale.

128? Wasn’t it 120 minus 8 to fund new technologies? I thought these 8 aircraft haven’t been reordered?

“Consider the Mirage 2000: our major export contracts were a good 15 years after the first deliveries to the French air force

When did Greece and India receive their M2ks? Hardly 15 years later!

and a ground moving target indication function could follow.

Interesting I thought this mode was already available.

June 10, 2009 at 1:43 pm in reply to: Even better news for the F-35. Lipstick on a pig, according to Janes #2445048

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No kidding. 50% of the Su-35 v2.0 fleet is scrap but all you hear are crickets. :diablo:

It’s 33.333…% of the fleet :-p

June 10, 2009 at 9:22 am in reply to: Saab JAS 39 Gripen Info # 2 #2445101

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Does the 1000E in Vixen’s name indicate number of T/R modules used?

It does yes.

June 10, 2009 at 9:15 am in reply to: Germany appearantly contemplates reducing Eurofighter order #2445104

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Government denies reduction

http://de.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idDEBEE5280CT20090309

Bartels has already suggested cutting T3 by 50% a year ago. Seems that the newspaper caught this idea in the current context.
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