not to be unhelpful but, if they simply send a few A4s to attack the drilling platform, it’s possible they get to it before they are detected if there’s no AWACS in the area… flying right down on the surface of the sea, the ground based radars may have trouble detecting them before they are in position… unless you have those typhoons patrolling permanently on top of the platform, one air raid may very well be sufficient

That would be an incredibly stupid thing to do, it would probably lose almost all political support available from outside the country and prompt a rather sizeable retaliation.

how do you scale down a photo? This one is not ideal i know. i will edit if you tell me how to do it.

Thanks

If you haven’t got something like Photoshop then you can load it up in MS paint, go to the Image menu, attributes and change the height and width, save, job done.

Not that i’m aware of. They seem to be happy with the options they have available. I have a feeling (don’t quote me on it) that they like to use Brimstone in a similar role.

But the SDB has a much larger range than Brimstone; approximately 60 nautical miles, compared to 12km of Brimstone, it’s also much harder hitting.

Personally I’d quite like it if we procured some SDB/SDB II once F35 becomes operational.

Not withstanding BAe’s high profile marketing and promotional campaign about Typhoon’s multi-role abilities and capabilities, the questions I now pose are: will Typhoon ever be fit-for-purpose in a strike role? Are the delays in getting it to full operational status a reflection on the fact that it is not a suitable platform for such a role? (Remember it was designed specfically to meet an RAF requirement for a dedicated air superiority role in a Cold War senario).

More a reflection of when most of the ground to air weapons were due to be integrated, I would expect.

Looks like “Airpower Australia” is in tin-foil hat mode (or more likely, knowingly lying). The photo is from the first flight but was cleaned up in PS. It’s been discussed on Secret Projects.

Pretty standard operating procedure for just about any press release, story? what story?

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Fair enough, I was only addressing the weight issue. I too very much doubt that 8x Meteor carriage will occur internally, but space is not my issue and obviously weight isn’t either given the internal hard points are rated to 2500lbs each, however simple need is my issue. What fighter aircraft routinely carries 8x BVR air to air weapons? Even the extremely A2A focused F-22 only carries a maximum of 6x the majority of the time.

4x will be plenty for initial usage, with perhaps 6x internal carriage being arranged down the track, if a user actually requires such.

Exactly, there isn’t a need and the practicalities of it are really off in fantasy land.

4x Meteor missiles per bay still weighs less than 1x 2000lbs JDAM and 1x AMRAAM per bay…

He didn’t mention anything about weight, the issue here is space.

+1 for what Grim said.

The Times isn’t really worth reading for Defence related matters, to be honest since Murdoch bought it its hardly worth reading at all.