John McCain — war hero, political giant — dies at 81

@2:12 & 3:50 McCain

The Hanoi Hilton was one site used by the North Vietnamese Army to house, torture and interrogate captured servicemen, mostly American pilots shot down during bombing raids.[15] Although North Vietnam was a signatory of the Third Geneva Convention of 1949,[15] which demanded “decent and humane treatment” of prisoners of war, severe torture methods were employed, such as rope bindings, irons, beatings, and prolonged solitary confinement.[8][15][16] When prisoners of war began to be released from this and other North Vietnamese prisons during the Johnson administration, their testimonies revealed widespread and systematic abuse of prisoners of war.[13]

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that was mirage F1 which is BVR equipped while Mirage III in PAF service was not

Yes And still the F-1 had to fly low and avoid the merge…

You can compare to the situation faced by the French contingent in Chad facing Lybian Mig23 or the South Africans facing similar Angolese forces: in both case the Migs (helped by SAMs) posed a considerable threat to the Mirages essentially dominating the airspace.

My dear Swerve, Easily like easily avoiding scrutinity ( since the story is dead with the regime admitting having displayed only an indigenously upgraded US plane). 😀

Why would they reverse engineer something that they can easily smuggle-in?

What is important is the rate of variation of the cross section. That’s what says your second order derivative in the Whitecomb equation and why the sinusoidal factor is introduced to follow the sear body pattern (sorry this was added to my earlier post but Keypub subsequently crashed yesterday). A good example and analogy with the F-35 (see at the bottom of the page on the link below) is the bump on the 747 that will open a more complacent range of volume distribution.

A good example is the Boeing 747, known for its distinctive “hump.” This hump, which houses the cockpit and upper passenger deck, increases the cross-sectional area of the forward fuselage and has the effect of evening the volume distribution over the length of the aircraft. As a result, the 747 is able to cruise efficiently at a slightly higher speed than most other airliners since the increase in transonic wave drag is delayed.

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/aerodynamics/q0104.shtml

So, true also in aerodynamics, curves are the sexyest attributes!

The US Navy’s fight to fix its worn-out Super Hornet fleet is making way

The U.S. Navy is slowly making progress to restore to fighting condition its hard-worn fleet of F/A-18 Super Hornet fighters, which last year had just one in three of its fighters ready to deploy.

Today, almost half of the Navy’s 546 Super Hornets are considered “mission capable,” a sign that the readiness investments made in the Mattis era are beginning to bear fruit.

More Hornet, more honey.

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DefenseNews.com

By the way when you say this

F-35 are a notch below what technology allows right now.

You should understand all the rubbish in it: the F-35 is an incredibly manoeuvrable fighter jet that can out AoA most fighter out there including the bests known in that domain so far (the SH) while retaining full authority in yaw, something unseen until now for something without TVC.
The F-35 is then indeed the best of what technogy has to offer when looking only at this narrow domain of BFM. So, I fail to understand your point.