Well done. Thanks for including my home country into your overview. Since everything is changing, it will require updates very soon again (probably like many other countries, too), but most of it seems to be pretty accurate.

One small criticism: Your depiction of former ABs on the little map, like Ulrichen, Raron or St. Stephan, seems a little arbitrary. There would be others worth a small cross of same or greater importance: Interlaken and Ambri.
They could also get easily mixed up with bases still (partially) in use.

Any of the Iron Eagle series… :rolleyes:

Couldn’t agree more. Serious teenage- heros in movies tend to be bad to start with.
If you put them into fighter jets, they are simply embarassing.

On the other hand I enjoy less serious non professional fighter pilot appearences like James Bond in the AAM- equipped ultra-light.

That’s great for Germany but I wanna ask:

1. Why did the Typhoon ditch the French M-88 engine and develop a new one from scratch? If Typhoon is meant to build for Europe I don’t understand it.

2. Comtemporary US aircraft fighters prefer to use double vertical tails if twin engines are used. Why typhoon doesn’t follow this doctrine? I’ve heard double vertical tails is better than a single coz it has a low RCS. Even JSF uses double tails despite it’s single engine. And Mig 1.44 is an another example.

3. Will a naval version of Typhoon be developed in the future? England which is among the joint development nations has a couple of aircraft carriers. If a naval Typhoon will be built, how does the JSF which England may purchase in the future fit in?

4. I’ve heard Pakistani often dream of purchasing Typhoon as their new high end aircraft fighters which can form a high-low mix with their future FC-1. Will Typhoon available for export?

OK. I’ll try to make this short…..
1: It was France that quit the EF program to develop their own fighter, not the other way around. In retrospect this seems unfortunate, indeed. Rafale and EF seem rather similar, except for the naval version.
2: Double vertical fins don’t combine well aerodynamicaly with canards. They tested this in the early development phase. The EF is optimized for agility, not RCS anyway.
3: No naval version planned. That’s why GB is procuring the JSF, so it all makes sense.
4: Of course it’s available for exports. Austria already got it. But I doubt that Pakistan will be able to obtain it for a long time.

The most likely customers besides the above mentioned were Bahrain, US Air National Guard, Taiwan, Swiss AF (there’s even a pic in a Swiss book of the 80-ies (Piloten über den Alpen) of a F-20 prototype in Swiss AF paintsheme).
I never saw Jordan mentioned.

How about this one:

or this.

Pictures by harnisch-gallery.ch

One time, Gen. Chuck Yeager said that the F-20 was the best fighter he has ever flown, unfortunately, didn´t make it, the prototype crashed in South Korea and ……..history tells.

Regards,

Actually two of the three protypes crashed, the second in Canada, presumably because of g-loc. The third one is in a museum.
But it seems that the change of proliferation policy under Reagan was the “killing factor”. See link above.

I think they should cooperate even more, for example by sharing the engine. This would beef up the Gripen’s not-so-great flight performance.
The EJ-200 powerplant has the reputation of being pretty economical, which could idealy also increase its range.
EF would profit too, since more produced engines will bring the price down.
But as it is, they still are competitors, I guess.