No, you are not being sarcastic you are hiding the hand after throwing the stone.
I have proposed comparison between a strike pack made by four f-35 with inne load only and one made by three Su-34 with standard load + one with jammers. An open comparison with no a predetermined result between two different approach to the same mission.
It’s you that have jumped one with the usual ‘Murica behaviour saying that the F-35 will destroy Su-34 with HOJ missiles.
Have them left their own strike mission to chase them?
Now, i know that after the F-22 mess your nation is a little bit short in true fighters but to drop their own load abort the mission and come into rescue is not a great way to do things IMHO.

A conventional attack against a nuclear superpower, how a cute way to end life on our planet.
Certainly the amount of things that had being added on a 300lbs bomb is appaling but the greater waste IMHO is the fact itself of having converted all the existing A2G stock into guided weapons.
HOJ is usually an operating mode added to an existing weapon, like on AMRAAM, so it wouldn’t be a great deal but in this case it seems to involve another kit to be added to an already existing (and already overcrowded) weapon and given the above mentioned mentality I greatly fear it would end to be mounted in about all the SDB stock.
For the rest escort jammers are absolutely needed for operating 4,5gen planes against advanced AD systems, so hardly a waste.
Let’s make a comparison: four F-35 with only internal load against four Su-34, three with standard load and one with escort jammer package and A2A weapons.
Who would deliver a greater punch? What change of survival? What cost?

IMHO there are almost two good reason to not showing it:
6 is the real deal, the one with complete RCS coverage and despite number the first one to spot the novelty they have introduced with the n°7 test bed.
They are now in a phase in which there are not any need of further showing it: the original commitent ( the armed forces) have accepted the model and are running its own part of the development program (the state tests) and they have not reached the first serial phase, so they are still not ready to show it to possible future customers
9th may is also near, so probably if they want really to show it up anyway they would wait still the few days neded in order to have maximum possible coverage.

Yeah im glad other programs didnt have problems. Im glad we have never had a falling leaf issue, or a flat spin issue.
Im glad we havent hada pilot induced occilation resulting in a crash. Im glad other planes arnt lawn darts or thuds. Im glad we haven’t had any planes computer crash after crossing the international date line, or give a Pilot Hypoxia. The F-35 is the 1st plane ever to have issues. Cancel it right away!

Jessmo23, here you are intentionally twisting what others are saying.
It was not just some compulsive naysayers but the same MoD i.e. the committent itself of the plane to say that the concurrency thing was the epitome of a failed approach never to be repeated again.
Yet at this point no one can expect the program to be interrupted, for just the same reason that had led it at such an impasse.
Simply said having decided to put all eggs in one basket was both the main reason that complicated enormously its own development but also mean there is not any viable alternative to it.

Wow, great news! SR-10 may become the first aircraft designed by the private company and purchased by our Armed Forces! I have only one question, what place will it occupy in the trainers line? Between the Yak-52/152 and Yak-130? Coz i thought Yak-130 is intended to replace whole L-39 fleet.

It will probably be used like we are planning to do with M-345: it will take the upper part of basic training and the lower of advanced one, Yak-152 (SF-260 EA) would take not only the primary but also the lower part of basic while the Yak-130 (M-346) would take also a consistent number of hours from the much more costly OCU planes.
Although using three different planes it ends up being more cost efficient (as using more advanced butlesser category trainers consent huge savings) and in the same time both much more easier and complete for the pilots (as passage between the different phases are much smoothier) than the former ones with only two.

Please , let’s stop talking about India contract.
What made it so special anyway? They acquired, you say, 22 helos, less that one for any of the states (29+ the Capital) of this immense country.
They have chosen what was the most mature design atm and in a political moment they were following a politics of rapproachement with the West.
Iraq has just ordered 30 more Mi-28 from Russia and they are fighting a real war.
Every customer have their own preferences and priorities. Period.

It could still sell if northrop has a strong media team like the gripen :dev2:

The small price, big capability gap between the f-20 and f-16 is what doomed it in the end. But still people buy hawk 200s in those times, and it is very expensive for what it is too (with similar catchy “cheap to operate” selling points like the gripen)

As for newbuild f-16s, yes it is not in LM’s interest to still promote the f-16 in competition with its own f-35. It must be a strong need from the buyer itself to want it while the line is still there, and to read through all the LM smoke and mirrors to understand that the f-35 is still not yet ready and to have an all f-35 fleet would be more expensive than a hi-lo mix of newbuild F-16 and F-35.

There is another fundamental difference between the actual “indigenous fighters” and the F-20 and it is in the word itself.
Tigershark was a tentative from the US to gave to their own third world allies an up-to-date plane but without any of the sensible technologies of their own teen fighters, even with a full transfer of technologies such a thing would have not permitted to these nation to advance their own industrial capabilities in any regard.
So in the end taking the F-20 would result in a lose/lose situation for them: no cutting edge performances and no technological progress of any sort.
Even the F-16/79 doesn’t meet any simphaty into potential buyers for the same reason, while instead the original intended prime customer for the F-20, the ROC took a great overall advantage in being permitted to develop its own Ching Kuo with technological transfer from US (and others) in compensation for the cancellation of initial deal.

Posted this, by mistake, in PAK FA thread.))

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