I’ve been thinking that US aviation is really going downill badly recently with badly run and technically flawed programs such as the F-22, F-35A, B and C, Dreamliner, Super Hornet, Boeing tankers and on top of that the USAF fall back option, their 4th gen fighters, are all thoroughly outclassed by Euro canards etc etc.
Add to this that when the Meteor comes online the US will no longer have the A-A missile monopoly and the rest of the world has now learnt how to design and manufacture low observable warplanes ending the US ‘stealth’ dominance, worse still the foreign stealth fighters will probably work unlike the US jets with their laundry list of show-stopping technicial issues.

All that money available to the US and yet its all gone so very wrong, why is this?

The US does not have a monopoly on AAM’s now, and hasn’t had for decades.

There are other countries out there apart from the US and Britain.:rolleyes:

I also think your statement that the US 4th generation fighters are “thoroughly” outclassed by Euro canards” is a little broad.

On topic, I think that US programmes have become a little heavy for years now, especially in the wasting of finances. The US could do cost control a little better perhaps.

Still, you are mentioning some of the programmes with teething problems.

Most aerospace programmes have these troubles.

Ecuador.

But it´s said that they are new kfir celulas.

Older are the South African DC-3T for MPA

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The Cheetah C airframes are not that old. There are probably F-16’s flying that are older than the airframes for the Cheetah C.

The DC-3/C-47 Turboprops used in the maritime patrol role were built in the mid 1940’s, making them about 70 years old.

I suppose it depends on what you would define as a combat aircraft.

Lockheed Martin themselves say the AT-63 Pampa II can be equipped with the multi-mode APG-67(V)4, and the proposed model III would feature a host of other modifications, including the radar.

Anyway, below are some interesting pics showing the nose, which has a seperate cone/radome over it.

Six or seven years ago, in 2010 they showed just a couple of planes, nothing else, they were interested in repair all the planes and being operative again, but now they are focused in the new Pampas.

Thanks.

What is this domestic PGM you are talking about? What sort of PGMs is argentinean air force using these days?

There is the AS-25K, which is a development of the Pescador.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS-25K

I don’t know of any others, but I would be interested if anyone else does.

Just a question but wouldn’t the J-31 be a more likely buy then the J-20 since the Chinese have already said the J-31 is for export?..:confused:

Good point.

The scenario that doesn’t need to be mentioned would need an aircraft with a good internal fuel load, and in-flight refuelling capability.