2 stages design?!

Those pictures are breathtaking Roberto. Thanks.

Another one that will need some attention (sourced from the Drive.com today):

(Read here)

C130 was more around 25% (yes… How can it be…)

2k slightly lower than RAF

Head of army complained in defence commission of the heavy toll taken by the fact that the Adla has to train all the foreign customer of Dassault. At 20% flight time, he said that this take away from him the capacity to build another OPEX (expeditionary task force).

Fr defense budget is not the land of Oz.

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Ouch, that so much OT… How did we get there?

@Halloween:

degrading readiness” because the fighter jets “were unable to fly about 22 percent of the time” from January through August for lack of needed parts.

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:rolleyes:

And you didn’t laugh?!! 😀

on another point, I found that one interesting (thanks):

“When you look over the life-cycle” cost “of most of our programs, it’s about 70 percent on the sustainment side. So we need to get that right.”

@ Tango (and others):
as I was the one initiating the comments, be sure it was not related to your own choice of including this link in the News section. I was more ironic on the fact that in a rather serious event, a CEO that had only wishful dreams to report made the news at the same level of more serious players. Promising millions of 3d printed flying vehicles in front of a military audience just to justify the low cost of an offer departs (IMOHO) from the usual.

As it sounded to me more like a commercial for laundry soap, I added my remark. My apologies for the digression.

No problem with Tango that does a fine job for the benefit of us all.
The content of the report however doesn’t have much info past the intends of this company to 3d print “millions” of cheap air vehicles…

It was a North American product, the company that defined the 50’s and 60’s with their products (mainly Saber and Vigilante). Add to that that Rocketdyne was an entity of NAA and you’d see that never in history a company ever has defined so much the future of aerospace (BAe if seen as a single entity could be but this could be revisionism by aglomerating the diversity of entities it was at the time)… Today, SpaceX and LM comes into mind but shsssssst. Don’t wake up the trolls

yes. In all that dumb story (is there any Storks by the way in the desert around Nevatim?), the only thing that I won’t doubt is the willingness from the IAF to test asap their new bird.

. When migrating between Europe and Africa, it avoids crossing the Mediterranean Sea and detours via the Levant in the east or the Strait of Gibraltar in the west, because the air thermals on which it depends for soaring do not form over water.[…]
White storks fly south from their summer breeding grounds in Europe in August and September, heading for Africa.[43] There, they spend the winter in savannah from Kenya and Uganda south to the Cape Province of South Africa.[54] In these areas they congregate in large flocks which may exceed a thousand individuals.[24] Some diverge westwards into western Sudan and Chad, and may reach Nigeria.[35] In spring, the birds return north; they are recorded from Sudan and Egypt from February to April.[55] They arrive back in Europe around late March and April,[43] after an average journey of 49 days. By comparison, the autumn journey is completed in about 26 days. Tailwinds and scarcity of food and water en route (birds fly faster over regions lacking resources) increase average speed.[36]

Eastern route: storks resting in Rahat (spring 2017).
To avoid a long sea crossing over the Mediterranean, birds from central Europe either follow an eastern migration route by crossing the Bosphorus to Turkey, traversing the Levant, then bypassing the Sahara Desert by following the Nile valley southwards, or follow a western route over the Strait of Gibraltar.[56] These migration corridors maximise help from the thermals and thus save energy.[57][58] The eastern route is by far the more important with 530,000 white storks using it annually, making the species the second commonest migrant there (after the European honey buzzard). The flocks of migrating raptors, white storks and great white pelicans can stretch for 200 km (125 mi).[59] The eastern route is twice as long as the western, but storks take the same time to reach the wintering grounds by either.[60]

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