I have a book called “Modern Fighting Helicopters” by Bill Gunstan and it talks about helo a2a tactics. Of real interest to me is the Soviet Scissor move. Do you guys know of it?

Yes. I have its French translation. A very good book, but somewhat dated, now…
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Rafale will be Brazilian Air Force next fighter!

Cheers from Brazil

Peperez

Huh ?

That’s official ??? :confused:
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The odds are the FAA/RAF will get the JSF in one form or another……….. :rolleyes:

Very probably, yes. But I was considering the “what if”, no matter how unlikely it is…
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How many Vulcans airframes are still in a flyable (with some WD40) state?

I think the answer is : none. Too hold. Too many hours of flight, too tired airframes, too costly to enhance their operationnal life.

And seriously: if UK wants true strategic bombers, why not use the “privilegied partnership” with the USA to ask for a handfull of B-2s, just like they already got a handfull of C-17s ?

Expensive ? Yes. But cost effective too.

Other fantasy: on 1st apeil 2005 the french magazin Air&Cosmos published an excellent “april’s fool joke” buy “revealing” the project of a strategic transport/bomber version of the Airbus A-380. It sounded so cool, that I almost believed it, or at least I wanted to believe it! Well…
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Two-seater Mirage 4000? I have something for you!
Once upon a time in Internet was “the whatif modeler forum”. (Don’t try to find that on google, it had been hacked recently by a ******* bull**** , so virus will infect your computer.)
I registered on this forum and meet a nice guy name Pollux Delta Seven. We talk a bit about Mirage 4000 and this guy had made profile of a two seater Mirage 4000.
This is the two seat nuclear strike Mirage 4000 by Pollux Delta Seven…

Wow! Nice! 🙂

But this aircraft, as previously stated, could only be used as a bomber: not enough sight for a training airplane.

Since a twin seated aiframe wouls have been designed anyway as a training plane, and since it would have been too expensive to design a second twin-seated, I think it’s safer to assume that a twin seater bomber version would have been developped from the training version, like the 2000-B turned into the 2000-N.

So, I think a “4000-B” would have had a cockpit similar (if not identical) to the 2000 B ou N…

But the illustration is still good! nice work! 😉

[Out of topic]
As a sidenote, I’d seriously have LOVEd to see our AdlA operate Mirages 4000 N (then 4000 D) instead of 2000N or 2000D, despite all their qualities… And I still consider the Mirage 4000 is the worst missed opportunity of the last three decades for the AdlA… 😡
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Wow a ‘Hatred’ minister! That sounds cool… 😀

“‘Hatred’ minister, the coolest government’s role since 1984”. :diablo:

Speaking of twin-seaters: I regret there was never a twin seater version of the Mirage 4000. I’d be curious to know how it would have looked.
Have some artists view existed for that project ? I’d be curious to watch them…
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Stupid question: Could a “Harrier III”, re-use a configuration similar to the Yak 141’s ? A twin-tail, and the rear of the Pegasus engine being modified with an afterburner ? Why not ? 😉
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