I think it was over Iranian territory 😉
nice stealth shape btw

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1215/Exclusive-Iran-hijacked-US-drone-says-Iranian-engineer-Video

Looks pretty good for a model hey 🙂

Sales don’t have to go via the US FMS route just because they have US components. They need ITAR approval for the sale, is all. Other C-27 sales have been direct from Alenia to the customer.

Ah ok, wasnt sure about that, just figure that was the case, so as we are getting new airframes, any idea why it has been put through FMS ? Guessing it is a requirement of ITAR that I wasnt aware of and that both are intertwined

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Australia’s acquisition of ex-US C-27Js

Just wondering where you get that from ? Australia is not buying the US’
C-27J’s, they will be new build aircraft, or have I missed something ?

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Source, primarily for myself

No worries 🙂 popped up pretty quick after my question if anyone had the F16/F18/F35 acceleration comparison on combat loads and didnt see the relevance, all good 🙂

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Although being vital to complete the information, this figure is of course never given. Because it would reveal the whole picture which is most likely far from being pleasing. The test pilots carefully choose their words to say only the part of the whole story which suits the PR so that a careless reader easily gets an impression that with the F-35 he somehow had an F-16 class fighter throughout the whole envelope.

There is little doubt that if you look hard enough, you can find a regime/loadout combination where the F-35 accelerates better than F-16. Most likely few (dozens of) seconds from low speeds with full internal A-G layout to make it the worst possible situation for the Viper where the F-35 wins by pure static thrust..

As the F-35 fans love to say, it’s not about what they tell you, it’s about what they don’t. Why don’t LM simply add the F-35 acceleration curve from M0.9 to M1.6 to the graphic provided?

Just as the anti JSF crowd find the same things to beat what is said about the F35, it is a mute arguement, what you complain about one thing can be directly applied to your own arguement, it is a no win point, it does not prove nor disprove anything, see my above post, do you have the acceleration curves for the F16 or F/A-18 with a combat load to compare to the F35 with the same load ?

Saying that it does not match a clean F16 or F/A-18 does not hold much except on paper, I want to know what they do with a combat load ?

Tom Burbage, Lockheed’s program manager for F-35 talked about it sometime back.

They are re-negotiating the requirement based on the F-35 having better acceleration than the legacy aircraft when there is a large AG loadout on both.

Ah ok, cheers, will do a search and see what I can find for a read.

It will also be interesting to see what info comes out over time on the F35 and its EW capabilities, I remember some time ago they were looking at an F35/Growler type aircraft and were playing around with the idea of stealth pods ? This was pretty early in the piece, but have not heard much about it since.

Spud do you remember that ? Do you have any info on it ? or was it just a fleeting thought

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As far as the AFA story goes, it should be read in a conjunction with the briefer’s record of statements and predictions since he first became a public spokesman for the program.

As far as your post goes it should be read in conjunction with the posters previous history 🙂 I would also like to retract my previous statement alluding to you being Bill Sweetman, you are clearly not, at least Bill would be able to make a reasonable response to the article.

Still very interested in who you think I am though ? You have made now a couple of times very difinitive statements on who I am ? I am more than happy to share, there is no need for me to hide behind a pseudonym, but it seems every time I prove you wrong on your assumptions you turn rather meek and avoid the subject ? It would be nice to put it to bed once and for all, but oh I forgot, we are on the internet, how could I possibly prove who I am ? Should have know your usual response before I asked the question shouldnt I 😉

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