Anyways, best let this go before RobL blows a fuse.
Ummm, okay? :rolleyes:
Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
Italy
Austria
Saudi-Arabia (en route to Singapore)
USA
Singapore
Czech Republic (RAF deployment)
Finland (RAF deployment)
Norway
Switzerland
Cyprus
UAE
Greece
Netherlands
Sri Lanka
So where has Eurofighter been so far?
Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
Italy
Austria
Saudi-Arabia (en route to Singapore)
USA
Singapore
Czech Republic (RAF deployment)
Finland (RAF deployment)
Others?
Just in case this has gone unnoticed, the unofficial Eurofighter forum is up and running again, though there seem to be login issues at the moment.
Whats Taranis getting?, EJ200 or Ardour?.
IIRC “Taranis UCAV is about the size of a hawk”, so the Ardour could be a good fit!. hmmmm the EJ200 seems a bit of overkill.
cheers
A modified Adour Mk 951. The Adour Mk951 will also be used by Neuron, however the R-R tweaks and peaks are Taranis specific.
that the ratio between the cost of Rafale and the cost of Typhoon was favourable to the Rafale, by a magnitude of 1/3rd.
No, he said “perhaps”. I guess he just wants to be invited to more offical Eurofighter bashing ceremonies by the French parliament. 😀
That said the only modernisation I see going on for the Mirage 2000 is the integration of the ASRAAM… There has been talk of new modernisation talks for those birds between the french and indian governments, but until detail is known, we won’t know how much sense it would make to purchase the Rafale from a commonality POV.
ASRAAM? Sure you didn’t mean AMRAAM? If true, great news, ASRAAM would finally start picking up orders with the UK and Australia having ordered already and Saudi-Arabia a likely new customer.
A sales pitch to whom? Certainly not the UK.
All background noise related to the upcoming bloodbath (defence review) dont take anything seriously until it is published, but be prepared for a massacre.
Yeah sure, wasn’t it you who said CVF would very likely be cancelled or hugely delayed? The budget will have to tweaked but it won’t be a “bloodbath”.
Well, Rosyth Dockyard is getting it’s upgrade, have a guess why?
a) Because they like spending money
b) Because Rosyth is the designated CVF assembly site
The Paveway 4 will be integrated in the next upgrade, that has just been announced.
Link.
BAE Systems
Typhoon became an upgraded EAP, and Rafale (it’s contemprorary), an almost clean sheet design.
Actually the Rafale demonstrator flew also in the early 1980s, and the changes between that and the current Rafale was smaller than the differences between Eurofighter and the EAP.
BAE Systems Raven is not the BAE Systems Corax.
BAE Systems Raven
BAE Systems Corax.
No need to spend millions of euros bying anechoic chamber when some people can calculte RCS with their eyes
Good one! 🙂
Well, it’s the brits who are boasting everywhere for 15 years that their plane is the second best to the F-22… and that everything else is not worth being named a fighter.
So, either the typhoon proves once and for all what it’s worth against a rafale, either the french have the right to laugh.
I’m not saying that the rafale is better than the typhoon, I’m just fed up with this “2nd best” story only based on simulations and Bae marketing power-point slideshows.
I mean, there are more than 100 operational typhoons now… so what are they waiting for ?
British papers and Jacko articles should be full off “one typhoon has shot down a full squadron of rafale during the last TLP”
And? French posters very often claim Rafale is better than Typhoon, actually I know a French poster who claims it is the best aircraft on earth, even better than the F22. The French basically claim Rafale won the “real” export competition each time it looses out, has Rafale actually even lost once due to something else than “evil US politics or evil British bribes”? You make me laugh.
By the way, the answer to my question seems to be: I have no source for my claim.
During those exercices, the typhoon proved nothing against the rafale so far.
Source?
Then, we agree on the fact that we have no results about Typhoon vs Rafale, though it happened. I just expect to see AFM publish a letter from un unknown guy reporting about how superior the Typhoon has shown
Actually, in June, in the magazine “DSI” about the TLP :
All of this made me laugh, you have a go at AFM, but then post an extract from a French magazine that is a trillion times more biased? I mean come on, when did AFM report that the Brits laugh about Rafale?