the Mica is 242.5 lb (110 kg)

Minor nitpick: I read somewhere that the MICA’s weight is 112 kg 🙂
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If you excuse me…

I have a doubt about this thread’s main title. It says “modern low-tech fighter”, which sounds like an oxymoron to me. Don’t we mean here “a modern low-cost fighter” instead ??
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Wow! PhantomII your pictures just ROCK, you lucky *******!!! Thanks for posting them!! 😎
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I wonder what type of delivery method they use?

“Overfly the target. Then drop the stuff”, maybe ? I have my doubts about the accuracy, though a drop while on stationnary flight could give some results…

Stay sure to remain high, though…

Funny: the first (color) picture of the IAR project makes me think of it as a “single-engined Mig-29” (see the wings’ shape ?)…
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Given the fact that Turkey desperately wants to join European Union, I would be VERY surprised if Euros let the F-35 win. If even under such advantageous conditions Euros let this one slip out, leave the Turks order US-made and then welcome them in the Union with widely open arms, then it is probably time to reconsider the whole idea of EU..

I personally would put Turks under massive political pressure and let them sweat.. My bid is on Typhoon, 70:30..

Surely not. Poland bought some F-16s in 2003, and joined the EU anyway…

The fact that the French parliament has officially recognised the armenian genocide plays a key role, given the sensitivity of the Turks on this issue.

To this, you have to add that France has been far less positive about a possible Turkish entry in the EU than other countries such as Germany.

You are right about the armenian genocide , but Germany is not more positive than France about letting Turkey entering the UE. Last time I heard about it, the curret Chancellor Angela Merkel was firmly opposed to it…
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at Janes Defence Weekly. I’m JDW Brazilian correspondent and Brazilian Aeronautics’ Commander told this personally to me. It’s enough?

Cheers

Peperez

If that’s true, then that’s a scoop! I found nothing by googling about it… :confused:
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Well the way I see it, the reason why France didn’t buy the F/A 18 was not to geopardize the Rafale M. Can you be 100% certain we would have been able to purchase the Rafale M had the F/A 18 been purchased for the A?ronavale ?

Personally I was not happy when they talked about getting the Hornet (which I dislike something fierce), and I was crossing fingers for the deal not to happen.

That said, they should have just scrapped the Crusaders much earlier in order to save more money to develop the Rafale faster.

Nic

I’m pretty sure that French pilots fly tested the F/A-18 when it was still a prototype, and hoped to have it for the A?ronavale as a counterpart to the (then to come) Mirage 2000 of the AdlA, by the end of the 70’s.
Dassault opposed all the possible arguments against this deal, and finally won! Earning in the same move a contract to “upgrade” the Crusaders in order to expand their lifespan until the arrival of the Rafale then expected for year 1996 (yeah, right!).

I once found a website where was told the story of the French discovering the F/A-18 prototype in the late 70’s, but I can’t find it any more…

I admit that there were some reasons to be opposed to the F/A-18 in the 90’s with the incoming Rafale, but surely not 10 years eaelier, and a Foch or Cl?menceau equipped with some F/A-18+APG-65+Sparrow missiles, was much more interesting than being equipped with Crusader+Magic R-550 missiles.
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