Israeli version,developed after 1982 Lebanon war.But this concept protect in lesser degree the tank compared to other ones.

I thought mesh armour was supposed to “catch” the incoming round so that it doesn’t detonate, but there’s no way this armour can work like that …

Sum up in modern warfare. Both countries bascially just have a airfight first to exhaust each other and awaits the winner of the aerial combat before taking the next step.

The whole time the airfight is going on, the ground war will also be in progress, in which MBTs would be very useful.

I agree that airpower is more important today than ever, and you can’t win without air superiority. However, no matter how much you bomb the enemy, there is still fighting to be done on the ground. And in any such fighting, the MBT provides the most powerful of punches.

You mean the supercruising capability of which nothing is known like range, payload , altitute etc etc 😉 🙂

Yes, that supercruise capability.

Kindof interesting. ISTR the later blocks won’t even have that, that everything will be displayed on the inside of the visor (which would really blow if the wire pulled out of it’s socket or you had a helmet failure)

Yes, but if the wire comes out the SMS backup system will text you updates 😉

Hey guys,

I was just curious. With the current ability to upgrade and re-engine new aircraft, drop the airframe time down to zero during refurb’ etc. is it possible to make an old aircraft as potent as a modern 5th Gen fighter?
I’m kinda looking at what Romania did with the Fishbed/Lancer, they made an old out of date fighter into something capable of holding its own against a more modern fighter.

In say thirty years, will we be seeing aircraft like the Lancer still flying and will nations be able to upgrade old aircraft like the F-5 and MiG-21 to a standard where they can at least attempt to challenge an EF-2000 in the air (I give EF-2000 instead of F/A-22 for stealth reasons, I don’t think u can make a MiG-21 very stealthy except with perhaps advanced plasma)

There’s no way you can make a plane stealthy just through refurbishment, so no, you can’t make a 3/4th generation aircraft 5th generation.

Maybe you can make it 4.5 generation, e.g. F-5S?

I bet you could do a lot using the F-4 airframe, plenty of room for avionics …

S’not that im fick, but i just dahn’t get it, yeah?

Mind you, they didn’t talk like that where I grew up, more like “Whit yoo lookin at ye fukin prik? Ah’ll stab yoo, by the way.”

Anyhoo, back to the subject. Did you know they have language police in Quebec? If your sign’s not in French, you’re nicked, mon chum.

Was it a DVD? Was there the option of English subtitles?

Considering the filmography of Gérard Pires, I am expecting the worse. I suppose that only French speakers have had the joy of viewing such masterpieces as “Double zéro” or “Taxi” !!!!!

I’ve seen Taxi … thought it was pretty good!