Yes. I stumbled on this at the time too. But it’s really clever.

rafale is already in operational service, bombing muslims, and certainly has better rcs lowering features than the much larger and exposed super hornet

No.

No to Muslim and No to RCS

it look so much ridiculous to sue a potential customer. It doesn’t presage anything good in Airbus backyard.

Thanks guys for the update regarding the non-aesa PS05 mk4.

What do you expect? None of them has internal carriage. The bigger they are the less imparted the will be. Hence the best in class might be the F15E.

Any reliable source for that ??

Deino

The story made it round the world:
https://sputniknews.com/military/20151029/1029254803/us-china-spying-drone-jet-engine.html

The court documents allege that AFM Microelectronics Corporation Vice President Wenxia “Wency” Man, based in San Diego, and Xinsheng Zhang, described in the documents as an official arms dealer for the Beijing government, tried to buy and then export the engines to China.
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They targeted the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle and the Pratt & Whitney F135 engine used on the F-35 stealth fighter.

Moreover, the two Chinese partners also sought to acquire the P&W F119 engine used on the F-22

Tanzania debris “part of the missing plane”

the inboard section of the right, outboard flap of the plane, was recovered in June. […]
The part numbers and a date stamp on the piece, recovered on Pemba island, helped the investigation.

In addition to the Boeing part number, the report said, the identification stamps had an “OL” number, both unique identifiers to part construction.

The Italian part manufacturer then recovered build records for those numbers, confirming that they belonged to the missing plane.
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However, in contrary to what is written in the press, I am on the opinion that a ctrled crash landing by an hypothetical pilot in ctrl won’t have seen Flap extended if that one was to be experienced. I have already posted crash at sea recommended procedures long ago here, specifically dealing with that hypothesis.

So there are not such conclusion to expect from this. The only thing certain WOULD be that a controlled descent (ascertained by the extended position of the flap) was done by an Inexperienced pilot. This would be a revolutionary conclusion by itself but still inline with the theory of an incapacitated flight crew and unknown numbers of survivors.

Source:
The BBC.com

Yes. The second pilot might be seating in a air conditionnned hangar enjoying a cushioned seat while sipping a large soda. He might even be an old fat long retired from flight sergeant or a skinny tiny woman retired from flight duty to end her pregnancy or just another hotshot recuperating his/her overtime.

If you can unman with an operator assuming the ultimate task of engaging kinetic actions, there are no limitations anymore to keep a GIB from seating out of the cockpit.

Pilot fatigue will be alleviated by better seating, resting position (like the Su34 and B2) and automated (monitored?) task.

With intercontinental fighter that might be requested for 6th Gen, pilots might spend a tremendous part of their flight time… Resting and enjoying the landscape.
Imagine a take off from a base in Nevada, a lengthy solo flight with planes synchronized with their allocated refueling time, automatic refuel and then, again lengthy flight to reach mission theater with sections slowly recomposing themselves according to flight plan*, all this automated, pre-computed and only adjusted thanks to the increased in flight plan, INS and weather prediction, pilot might just wakeup and taking control in the last 1000nm before target out of 6000nm inbound flight!

The inevitable problem as with their civilian counterpart would be to keep them stick proficient… Hence the need for high perf trainer and, as I have suggested in the Civilian thread, inflight school.

*see B29 missions toward Japan