You guys keep coming with numbers, to try to prove how much the British Aerospace industry have done….
Please show me evidence of the 1260 prototypes France built and flew between 1945 and 2005 as you claimed just that , otherwise once again you have been proven to be a liar.
Question WAS: When was the last time it produced a high performance/front line fighter on its own?
Answer: Sea Harrier. some time ago isn’t it?
Again this does not make any sense. Some do it on their own because they believe they need 50% of a programme and then everyone else gets pissed off by their stupid behaviour and some can collaborate with others, that doesn’t mean Britain couldn’t do it on their own. BTW nice that you mention it, VSTOL, a technology France never mastered by producing a series aircraft, not just some prototype which often crashed such as the Balzac.
Also note that the last one would be the BAE Sea Harrier FA2 first flown in 1988, so really it’s a bit younger than the Rafale, the last indigenous French high performance fighter. :dev2: (Note: The Sea Harrier FA2 had structural differences, also new avionics etc… and is considered by most an own new fighter) And even the Sea Harrier FRS1 would only be a few years older than the Rafale (first flights: 1978 versus 1986)
As for comparing the number of prototypes, we can argue with the number of home made as well, the point is HIGH performance isn’t going to be found in large number in the UK as the only companies which were able to design them are long gone and the only one still capable to a limited extand isn’t doing it for nearly twenty years.
Once again you are talking absolute bull****. The BAC TSR 2, FD 2, Panavia Tornado, BAe EAP, Eurofighter, Bristol 188, De Havilland Venom, Gloster Meteor, DH 108, English Electric Lightning etc…… are all “high performance” fighters/ prototypes, more to the point the UK also developed long range bombers (Valiant, Victor and Vulcan) something France lacks.
Rob L have a long history of bein inventing stuff to the extand that he believes the JAS 39 was designed by BAE as well as part of the F-35, overlooking the fact that the aircrafts were already designed and ignoring the fact that redesiging for production tooling is somethingh else, don’t waste your time with him, he already knows the the French Aerospace industry in Number two worldwhile. He likes ihs little figures you see. They all do apparently. Jealousy is creeping out.
Again you are plainly lying. What I said is that BAe had a part to play in the design of both Gripen (you actually conceded this point to me in a private e-mail) and F35 (for the F35 this is something Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and BAE SYSTEMS ALL verify), I never said they designed a majority of those planes.
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