Correct – but again, we’re back to the circular argument.

Every fighter with drop tanks can rapidly (as in, over a couple of seconds) change their fuel fraction, total weight and their aerodynamic drag.

The F-35 cannot.

So, yes, a “heavily outloaded” Rafale/EF/-15 won’t be able to match the performance of a clean F-35… but the pilot can choose to accept a mission kill if it means survival. The F-35 pilot *may* be in a situation where they wish to do the same, but the effect of jettisoning bombs is much less pronounced… which may lead to loss of the airframe.

Its all hypothetical arguments based on hypothetical situations and biased by everyone’s own opinion. Pretty much all the arguments have at least some degree of validity.

This conversation, or should I say, this conservatism, remind me that of the Bi-plan (there is part of the flight domain that a monoplane won’t be able to reach… )…

To be grandiloquent (as I own that to Amiga after turning that way his rightful assertion into the ridicule by the very above), if it brings in improvements (range/per liter, range/$ or combat safety/L), an improvement it is 😉

USMC F18C crashes during training flight at Fallon AB in Nevada

As of Sunday afternoon, the Pilot is still missing

You have to read with attention the very nature of the offsets.

For example, Dassault was prosing unspecified production of parts and sub-components of the Raf, Mirage and Falcon. Since the 2K5 was the beast in the pipe, I guess that most of teh production offset would have been the Mirage itself. So basically, Dassault came down to Poland to tell them that they will have another decade of cheap subcontracting for the mighty Eu industry. What, I can assure you, Polish ppl are fed-up.

On the contrary (SEE TABLE 5-2), LM offered some very serious tech maturation with the benefits of its vast experience of the subject in Eu.

I am sry, but if you have prongs, you’d prefer to bite in something juicy.

Hack something in the vast array of F22 soft, and grounded it is for a couple of day at least.

The possibility of just this will preclude the USAF to retire the 15 until an equal nbr of 35A are at hand reach.

I do agree with the 18 but it does not fit the per $ view unless you decide to base them on USAF airbases 😉

Since nobody have said it until now, so will I.

IT’S A NEAT LOOKING BIRD!

(we’ve seen a lot of 5th’zed ugly and rather “originals” design).

The “Newtonian” airfoil profile is interesting.

rostov needs to ramp up! I expect the floodgates are now well and truly open for Mi28 international sales.

Rostov needs to invest in modern technologies for its production line: CAD/PLM/Virtual tooling!

Hyperstealth.

The speed is not a goal by itself. The alt is. So the thing is supposed to fly higher hence at Mach_Whatever.

Rem:
By this way, Ru could keep MiG on the run for relatively cheap.

This is what Fr should hve done.

Turkey likely to order Lockheed F-35 fighters in 2015

regarding the ADS A4C, another fine sentence that will make history :

“The aircraft is ready to go. It is instantly, operationally fit for flight”