Marine’s Super Cobra AH1-W over Lybia

SuperCobra gunships attached to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit began supporting precision airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Sirte, Libya, within the past few days, a spokesman for U.S. Africa Command, Charles Prichard, told Military.com.
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Since the first of the month, U.S. forces have completed 77 airstrikes in support of the Libyan government’s fight against Islamic State militants, Prichard said. Both manned and unmanned assets, including Marine Harriers and Cobras, have been used in the strikes.

Source:
Military.com

That’s an orgy, not a surge.

MH17: Dutch criminal investigation results ready Sept. 28

The Joint Investigation Team working on the criminal investigation into the downing of flight MH17 in the Ukraine in 2014, will release the first results of the investigation on September 28th, RTL Nieuws reports.

Source:
NL times.com

Lullabies.
And by the way, BAE is on the TFX.

Commonality means here that a single item is shared b/w model. Not similarities.
In other words, 28% does not speak much as they are really identical planes (see the GAO reports that used to details each model’s problem, listing them 3 times doing so).

Aarrf, just read Spud’s post…

@FBW and SpudmanWP: Thanks. Addn’t kept that value in mind. But given the overall size and wings it sounds coherent (Rafale value b/w B and C is slightly less than 900kg

The USAF is flying stealth aircraft. Most of the logged training is in dissimilar flight using the T38 (learning how an opponent will identify and react). A supersonic T-X will simply increase the pilot experience for 5th gen opponents. It’s not a requierement as we know but a plus.

Interestingly, under that form, neither the Northrop design or Boeing are carrier compatible (unless modulable – What both could be).

Notice also that the above view of the Boeing plane is probably altered in its dimensions (counter reverse eng?).

Beautiful.

It’s a twin!

Perdon me but where is the video?