Regarding the two small carriers (small as capable of defending the Amazon river ?), it makes some coherence now.

and friend

Interesting powerplant

[…] they won’t need more range.

With a global economy you need range. Range at sea. Penetration. SF. ABM. Deep conventional strike. It doesn’t mean that you gonna use it. It’s plain simple old deterrence. Tickle me with a feather and I will smash you with an hammer. Simple as that.

Especially a growing economy like India that pass trough a sensitive pace when their population is consolidating itself toward a middle class like society. Destabilization is what they have to fight.

India 2015 is Fr 1962.

My own guess is that it’s what Br just did forget.

Western weapon systems are also sanction-able. The Rafale uses EU or US developed and sourced weapons. Both sources are suspect in terms of long term supply reliability.

[…] your suppliers have had a sudden attack of “morality of war” in the middle of a war, right when you need them and have already paid them so much money.

This is interesting.

Don’t forget the allegations done by MD officials that they are leaning toward closing their mil activities*. Not a great source of confidence on the export market…

* And are they truly sure that this won’t affect the Dassault branding? Ppl buy expensive Falcons because they are like Ferrari, built so-said by a team constantly switching from pointy fighter planes to flying golden eggs!

Great find!

So after the vapor pics, they are unveiling the great mystery (drum rolling and trumpets snoring) 🙂

I did also notice the mention to the pulse engine (again). I have the idea that this is not a coincidence (same derived tech).

Regarding the “aggressive” S duct, I think that this is just an hijacking of another technical achievement transmuted into a purely mechanical solution for whatever reason that might be based on commercial/financial motivations.

As I’ve said alrdy, the flow does not “see” the curvature of the S duct.

” *and this is where the canarded fighters concept is detrimental to aero efficiency reducing the chord, hence the section unless you accept a thick leading edge and reduce drastically the frontal section to balance for the drag increase, negating the use of a descent sized radar etc…). ”

I think you need to re-phrase that

“Canarded”
is some sort of FrenGlish that I made around the words Canards and Canardé (sniped) to describe how the 1970’s concept of using canards on a small sized fighter had some negative repercussions on its overall performances (IMOHO of course).

[…]The Junta projected their own thoughts & feelings onto Britain, instead of studying us. This is the greatest mistake one can make in any negotiation or struggle.

Excellent!

Sadly, irrational thinking is not a copyrighted thing. Man can see some clear resurgence of the same type of erroneous behavior nowadays.

But what are the points regarding the Mirage and the Mig?

Failure is not a strategy by it self.