What products are real best sellers?
– A320
– A 330
– Ecureuil
– Dauphin
– Bo105 derivatives
Etc…
A400 Failure
A340 Failure (not their fault – market insight was risky)
A380 Failure
Tiger Failure
NH90 Failure
Post Ariane V: impressing lack of reactiveness in front a huge blind spot for commercial launches (commercial means truly market driven launches)
…

You’ll get the picture.

Affinities ?!! There is not such that prevail. It’s a market, a defense market where competition must rule to get the most out of every taxpayers Euro.
Do you think that Affinities is anywhere involved with IT giant like Apple or Samsung? And when SpaceX started from scratch (it is now the world’s most valuable privately held companies), what would you think was in their mind ? Affinity, perfumed encent, body hormones ?

Non-sensical industrial planning as only one single output as already experienced by Airbus: FAILURE. Archaism*, should I say, is not a science.

*neither is Feodalism

Lol no. 😀
But they have a video and Fox (not Fow)were first to report in my side of the world net…

What is she doing in Nep?

Aircraft Carrier USS Ford makes history in Naval aviation

The USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, successfully launched and landed an aircraft with advanced digital, magnetic technolgy, which replaces the older steam-driven catapult system.

Source:
FowNews.com

“One drone in a formation flight will carry microwave weapons, including guided electronic munitions while another drone will carry radio-electronic suppression and destruction means and a third UAV will be armed with a set of standard weaponry. Each specific task is solved by different armaments,” he said.
[…]
“The use of microwave weapons is highly problematic for a plane with a pilot due to the need to preserve his life. But if we develop an additional system of protection against our own microwave weapons, we’ll lose even more space and the weight margin. Besides, even the most complex and effective system can be insufficiently efficient,” Mikheyev said.

Interesting…

German Tiger crashes in Mali, two dead

The Tiger type army combat helicopter with two pilots onboard crashed for unknown reasons around 12:20 GMT/UTC about 70 kilometers (43 miles) northeast of Gao in eastern Mali, the Bundeswehr said on Wednesday.
“Onboard the helicopter were two service members, who died in the crash,” the Bundeswehr said in a statement.
The German soldiers were taking part in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA). The German military said UN forces had been dispatched to the crash site to carry out an investigation.

Also:

The crash was reported by a second helicopter following in the mission. […]
“The reason for the crash is still completely open. There is no evidence at this point of any outside factors,” Vice Admiral Joachim Ruehle, deputy inspector general of the armed forces, told reporters.
[…]
All routine flights by other Tiger helicopters will be suspended indefinitely, he said, and only flights deemed necessary for “life and limb” will be conducted.

Source:
DW.com
Reuters.com

France orders 6 additional Canadair Dash 8 for firefighting duties

six Dash-8 or Q400MR water bombers. In addition to its larger carrying capacity than the Canadair CL-415 (10,000 liters of water or 9,000 liters of retardant), the Dash-8 is versatile. It can carry passengers and freight, in addition to its water-dropping missions. France has taken advantage of this versatility since 2005, when its two current Dash-8s were put into service.

Source:
http://www.aerobuzz.fr [Fr]