We will see how it performs. Prediction are difficult at this time scale with the present technological landscape.

By the way, and very ironically, it’s nearly the first 5th Gen manned fighter developed in Europe. Very approximately I should say.

US loses Osprey aircraft in Yemen raid

Three additional U.S. troops were injured in Yemen in a related incident. The servicemembers were hurt when an MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft made a “hard landing” at a nearby staging area where they were preparing to evacuate troops involved in the raid.

Source:
https://www.stripes.com/news/pentagon-probing-reports-of-civilian-deaths-in-yemen-raid-1.451665?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Early%20Bird%20Brief%2001.31.2017&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief

I note that the graphic on that page just credits ‘Defense Department’ and contains no link to the actual data. It looks like they’ve just cribbed the numbers from previous reports regardless of context, and thus compare incomparable numbers in order to push their agenda.

For example the $45,986 per an hour for an AC-130U is a 2013 PROGRAM COST per flying hour number which divided the total annual program cost ( including all acquisition and upgrade costs ) by the total annual flying hours. That’s not relevant to actual flying over Syria in 2016; in fact if they flew MORE, the 2016 equivalent number would DECREASE!

In contrast the suspiciously-round $1000 per hour for the OV-10 looks like a guesstimate of the raw per-hour figure; a civilian Mu-2 with the same engines comes in around $690 per hour* fr fuel, maintenance and insurance. So it’s not a fair comparison with the figures given for other aircraft on the list unless they build-in the costs of reactivating the OV-10s, training crews, ferrying them to theatre etc.

Until I see raw DoD data I’m not convinced by fancy ‘infographics’.

* http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iYMrYJQzwIgJ:http://turbineair.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Mits-Cost-of-Operation.pdf%2Bmu-2+cost+per+flying+hour&gbv=1&tbs=li:1&hl=en&ct=clnk

All those data were published in Air Force Magazine not so long ago.

Alternatively, its a great way for BAE to keep a team working on an LO manned design as it waits for the UK to decide its plans for the future.

The amount of money involved clearly says that the UK industry won’t sell its nuggets there (and anyway, the Turks are proud and capable enough to have dismiss such offer). They are providing insight, know-how and gain experience in the same time without any UK taxpayer resource. It’s sound more like a good deal given that the UK won’t field a fully nationally designed manned stealth aircraft in a foreseeable future
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Boeing says that all upgrade are retrofitable. Hence it’s doable without risks.

Regarding the Kuwaiti deal, notice that they are the ones that bought first the Weapon pod (1). If testing cost there is, I am more on this than with the CFT, long test flown and offered to the US Navy.

he IDDM programme (Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured), a key initiative of Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar.

idrw.org . Read more at India No 1 Defence News Website , Kindly don’t paste our work in other websites http://idrw.org/cci-clears-reliance-dassault-joint-venture/ .

So is Parrikar such a scu** bag in your own opinion today? B/w 51% is per def the… minimum 😉

the dihedral is also there to provide added yaw control (hence the minimalist vertical surfaces). You can see them clearly used that way in the last video of the J20.

Saudi Arabia commissions new batch of F-15s

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Source:
UPI.com