no 2011. Those doc were extracted at this date.
The amount of the single point leak (high level access) makes for an organized release of information.
An engineer or a designer, or in this case, a contractor have scarcely such wide access to this kind of project. Think that a submarine is a much more complicated thing than an airplane and even there, nobody at such lower level is granted similar access.

We don’t know why all those doc were transplanted where they were found. And it will be conjectural only to guess so with the low amount of material we have here (but not by who’s profile). But, what can be said is that there are enough provisions to speculate at which level this decision was taken.

This is why I mentioned in Nicolas thread the disfunctionning nature of Fr arm sales structure (character dependency)* .

*The article that I linked also finger pointed awkwardly to Parrikar (I didn’t include this in my comment).

Belgian provinces united under the same group of interest (Belag)

Belag proposera alors aux cinq entreprises (BIEN: entreprises) – deux américaines et trois européennes – représentant chacune un candidat à la succession du F-16 de signer un accord-cadre fixant un “engagement contraignant” sur la “valeur ajoutée” qu’elles sont prêtes à fournir à l’industrie belge en tenant compte des législations européenne et belge – qui interdisent en principe de réclamer, comme par le passé, des compensations économiques dans le cadre de marchés publics, à moins d’invoquer l’article 346 du traité de Lisbonne*.
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Belag will work with candidates for the F16 replacement in order to agree around a value for the financial compensations that are expected by the Belgian industrie taking into account the Eu and Belgian law forbid any claims for compensations in Public deal unless invoking the Lisboa treaty (art. 346)

Complicated but traces a line toward more flexibility for a US (or Typhoon!) buy (Dassault IS a big part of the Belgian industry, especially in the Fr speaking part of the country)

Source:
http://trends.levif.be/

*(b) any Member State may take such measures as it considers necessary for the protection of the essential interests of its security which are connected with the production of or trade in arms, munitions and war material; such measures shall not adversely affect the conditions of competition in the internal market regarding products which are not intended for specifically military purposes.

Northrop T-X Makes First Flight AWIN-Guy Noris

taken off at around 12:48 p.m. Pacific time and remained airborne for at least two hours.

2hours for a first flight ?! A trainer? How much fuel those guys have by the RFP ? If they did refuel in flight that will rocks!

PS: So 2Kish on that angle

the worst of all this story is that young Yeager would have loved flying an F22. I tried to post in parallel his own account of his kill victories (P51 – ace in a day) and the testimonies of the latest “dogfight” b/w Syrian jets and Raptor and the similarities are striking. Hide and wage havoc.
What stealth brings to modern day pilot is what Alt and Sun did for the P51 against the Luftwaffe. EoA.

Good they removed to crime of high treason from the law a few years back… :confused:

what are you after ?

didn’t think

was all that was needed, you know 😉

Nice pic. The brightness (red) looked to suspicious to me. But if you say so.

The Pak-fa doesn’t use stealth paint.
and quite honestly the f-35c above will have worse rcs because of the color they put on the tail

to this

It’s a photoshop.