the Euros should close a big gaping hole in their marketing story where they always come up short vs the US products.
That hole is the huge family of pre-integrated weapons which US offers with stuff like
F-series variants.
For Rafale you get french weapons and extra work (and prolly $$) to buy and integrate US weapons (if US sanctions dont block that). The Typhoon right now is again far from being a potent A2G total soln the way F-15E/I/K is *today*
There should be Joint EU projects to finally offer a total solution sourced only from
europe and free from US sanctions or political issues.
* 500-5000lb of LGB kits
* 500-5000lb of IIR guided kits
* 30km range IIR TVC AAM
* 100km range TVC, ramjet AAM (Meteor, super-Meteor)
* Galileo guided munitions kits for 500-5000lb
* 50km range standoff hi-speed attack missile
* 200km range standoff hi-speed attack missile
* subsonic stealth ALCM (Apache with a cheap price tag not $10 mil a pop)
* 20km ATGM with IIR top attack and retry modes (not brimstone since its based on hellfire)..make tank killing a totally PGM business using UAV for initial INS coordinates followed by IIR search to disperse bomblets
* A Euro AESA radar (amsar?)
* stealth shaping of munitions to reduce RCS
All of these weapons should be priced cheap and made available in thousands if the
user wants – without lectures on human rights or politics. afterall if u want to be a
arms merchant, go the whole hog like US – be the toughest, most unscrupulous seller
on the planet. no hesitent wishy washy approach like the Swedes “we will see u arms but they shouldnt be used to kill people”
Also they need one EU marketing office and one window to pay cash and
carry out the products , not 10 Govts saying different things and dealing with
french plane , swedish munitions maker, belgian engine blade maker and italian missile man.
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