How big is the destroyer/cruiser fleet nowadays?I know the Moskva class cruisers are there to stay and Kirovs gonna be 2,but what about Udaloys?How many will they modernise to multirole?Can we say that 956 Sovremenny are gone all?

Please spare Rafale data for Rafale topic. 95+% availability was performed during lybian wars, of course this type of performance has consequences within a constraint budget on other planes. Geez what a discover?. Now (last time i compare here), one can compare the 48% availabilty (in US terms full availability i think) to the flat encephalogram look of the same data on F-35 fleet. (which is somehow normal at this stage of the program). But no chest bumping on F-35B availability considering the intensity of given missions please. Rafale were flying between 30 to 40 hours/week during Haramttan…
Problem is these taes are BS. when you go into comparison (appels to oranges). The real metrics is “doese it fulfill its operational contract”? How many missions cancelled? etc. Nvm. Cu on Rafale Thread.

Well my friend i know that you must defend the undefendable but to compare the B,with the higher thrust jet engine in the world and the most complicated propulsion too it is a little dirty argumentation.Then deliberately forgetting the tremendous amount of flying,carrier fatigue and years of service under Sequestration of Obama memory is unfair.You mention Mali and Libia campaign,but what about the continuous wars since 9/11 with much older planes and still availability being the same as your brand new Rafales.

The article posted above by Scooter says all!

Very interesting interview with many data. supercruise mach 1.4, 0to 55k feet in one min. etc.

https://youtu.be/8Xua3049KJg

That must be from the Fighter podcast.
Well for an Uber plane has less rate of climb than Su27 or F-15,not mentioning F-2000 the champ!

Overall, the Fr fighter aircraft reached 44% availability in 2018. The Rafale having a slightly lower rate than the M2K. This was discussed already in the Rafale Thread where should lies a bunch or related documents.

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To the above values; one should add the low availability of essential items like targeting pods that are also quite depressing (the document linked below mentions the 50% readiness rate for the Thalios pod from Thales).

For those that don’t know their probability laws the Math say that the combined 50% availability of two systems would lead to something available 1/4th of the time. Yes, you understand right: for a single laser strike mission of 2 aircraft required to hit simultaneously two different targets (how original is this?!), you’ll have to ready 8 aircraft fitted with their pods…

Source:
French parliament

It cant be true,french is the best,planes,helicopteurs,Famas,formage etc

er, you should tell that to germans, brits, italians anbd spaniards.. they all pay more than the french… there’s no such thing as economy of scale when you have four building chains for a single fighter.. India would’ve just been the fifth… what’s more, UK and Italy go for the F-35 for ground attack role… they won’t develop anything in that area for the Typhoon anymore (wasting the scarce money they get for their military), spain is broke, so no development there either, as for germany, they have trouble just keeping their air force airborne as the invest so little in the military.. good luck with having them develop anything for your support in the future…

what’s more, Blackarcher explained to you that a nuclear bomb is NOT a bomb “like any other”… there are specific circuits that have to be installed, tested, configured and so on…

If math is not an opionon then EF 68m < Rafale 70m,so much of the 4 factories.
If you and Blackarcher confirm that the Indians are getting nuclear wired Rafales and Asmp A missile then im wrong!
If not what are you talking about?
Italy and Uk have made a wise choice looking into the present and future.But LGB,Brimstone and Jdam are there when needed.
As for Germany keeping theirs airborne what is the actual service rate of AdA or AdT?

define 5th gen engine?

E jet, with its simple architecture, is an excellent high speed high altitude engine. Otherwise, lack of inlet guided vane (variable geometry) make of it a “single task” oriented engine.

Something France has yet to master

Hallowene, actually Italy is financing BOTH Typhoon (as acquisition of them have yet to be completed) than F-35.
Once we’ll have completed the first program and that second would exit from LRIP we’ll have plenty of resource to finance a research project actually at its very initial phase (or have mistaken that mock-up for something real?).

🙂

398 mil euro was just payed to LockMart!Salvini clearly said that cancelling orders is not an option and we know that he pulls the strings,not Giggino u’ bibitaro!
Tempest will happen,on both sides of the politics they are aware it has too.And you cannot underestimate Finmeccanica lobbying.

https://youtu.be/pSAyRWBb-_s