you’re entitled to your opinion on this subject and post 327, regardless of how silly it is
even your signature shows your ignorance of fact

while the F35 may be able to be converted to a UAV (most aircraft can don’t you know), it would be yet another compromse in a programme full of them, whilst also being a lot more expensive than a dedicated UAV

As for the B surviving, with Obama and Gates in charge can you really be so sure? Hell with a general election coming in the UK Cameron may just choose to bin the UK purchase and go for an updated Harrier anyway, which export customers will go for because we offer full tech transfer.

no, most aircraft cant, without a major redesign, but i’m happy to be taught, if you can show me how

there is not even the remotest possibility of the harrier ever being rebuilt in any form

A little longer than that, the GR9a upgrade took about 8 years to reach IOC, but if the B gets killed the production run would be well over 200, UK, spain, Italy, India, the USMC and even Japan might want a few for it’s new “destroyers”, and that’s before even trying to push it to anyone.

I really don’t understand this blind faith in LM and the F35, sure the A will make a decent replacement for the F16 and the C for the legacy hornets, but as for the A10s and Strike eagles, not from where I stand, and current harrier users can do a hell of a lot better IMO.

And anyway, why are we working on a manned 0 day strike package anyway, by the time it reaches IOC that role is going to be eaten into by UCAVs anyway.

regardless what people say, the f-35b wont be cut, usa will throw money at it till its flying
the f-35b is already planned to be an optionally manned plane, it will also be a UCAV
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2006/08/15/208488/lockheed-martin-reveals-plans-for-unmanned-f-35-jsf-among-other-new-uav.html

It didn’t have a LdP a the time but still could make visual ground ID, get GPS coordinates of ground threats thanks to the OSF and that’s a very valuable function.

cann you please stop repeating this nonsense, i thought we have already sorted this out
by its self, the spectra warning system and the OSF can’t provide an accurate targeting GPS co-ordinate

if you wish to explain or provide a creditable link to show how it can, i am all ears

sigh…
AASM is only marketed by MBDA, the maker is SAGEM security.

sigh…
mbda is the maker, sagam developed and there was a 3rd team on it too i seem to recall from my reading in the last few days, but i could be wrong on that

Jackjack

Before labeling anyone has “fanboy” check the facts. One of the primary missions of the Growler is SEAD, there are literaly hundreds of texts in the internet mentioning the fact…

Here you go, from flight International:

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/07/08/225072/ea-18g-growler-new-platform-and-capabilities-set-to-un-level-the-sead-playing.html

From Naval-technology:

http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/ea-18g-growler/

the airforce doesnt use the growler, as i said
it uses a sniffer up high and a force of f15 and f-16,

ok, it doesnt have the ir image loaded into the seeker and it just matches the image
so its a guestimate gps co-ords can be given to get it down range where the IIR kicks in
it sounds like it will work fine and if that is what was simulated in uae, it answers my original question

Oh… You didn’t get enough clues and want all the nasty details ?!?
— CLASSIFIED —

Sorry :diablo:

LOL, you could of just said, you have no idea of the RF IR laser warning and and just chant the spectra is magic pixie dust like the rest of the loons

if you look at thalses fitted helicopters, they have very similar warning system, like most helo’s
i heard someone say, thales didnt have anything else and just bolted those on the rafale and called it spectra :dev2: