Rumoring the rumors won’t help for sure. Where is that Munch emoticons…

It brings a lot of doubt for a buy that was supposed to alleviate such. I don’t get it but I guess Saab has given all the appropriate guarantee to cover the risk.

yep, we can see it doesn’t use stealth paint..
or at least the same stealth paint as the f-35. it could be using a different kind.
but its closer to the type used by late model f-16s and black rafale.

They are using the same engraved serrated wedges on the trailing surface as on the Rafale. Same technology, this is for sure.

2x CAE pilots (ex-DGSE) + 3x DGSE employee. No mystery. I was referencing the controversy b/w the DGA complaining that CAE didn’t fulfill full security standards (read Le Monde of Today).

Do we have a project name for the HaweyeSky?

Lockheed Details Hybrid Wing-Body Future Tanker

Tackling the age-old problem of basing is also on Martin’s agenda. Large, commercially derived tankers take up valuable ramp space and require lots of infrastructure for care and maintenance, but the number of bases worldwide that can accommodate that type of aircraft is limited. Martin is therefore pushing for a platform that will be able to take off and land in spaces about half the size that a KC-10 or KC-135 requires, which allows the Air Force to more effectively distribute its tanker fleet across the globe.

“If there [are] only 10-15 bases in the entire region where you can take off and land, it limits where aircraft can operate,” Martin says. He adds that the idea is to eventually enable tanker operations from smaller, regional airports. “This opens up some options for distributing our forces—putting tankers at more locations—which brings an inherent reduction in vulnerability to attack. It also allows us to fly the tankers with significantly more options for diverting in case of emergency.”

In pursuit of the same trend.

The one with buried engines on top looks like the TR-X configuration.

Those talking in the name of Eu and plinking cumulated budget to argue for unity around a project forget that no such thing as heritage is granted in a world economy where new alliance are forged around common vivid interest.
In other words, if you want an European fighter, you’ll better pray for some shared interest in the defense posture that would have to be even stronger that NATO (who’s members are more in line with reality and favor a common market for weapons procurement) to justify such a single procurement.

Wake-up. Germany is closing the Eurofighter line. Do you think that this is to order more?! And a Rafale NG post 2030, you can’t be serious if you just criticize the IAF modernizing their Jaguar.