Lets play some serious SF speculation at the moment. Lets say today, the Earth suddenly found itself surrounded by alien motherships. The foes we are today among countries suddenly have to unite to deal with the alien threat. What would you choose as the weapon systems to best defend Homo Sapiens?

[Might be fun to make some kind of novel or tv series out of it.]

Cyanide pills. Would make our death a lot less painful.

Let’s face it: if an alien species was advanced enough to cross the cosmos in a realistic time frame, then we probably wouldn’t stand a chance. Besides, they could just bombard the planet from long range just as easily.

Now if they decided to come through, say, a wormhole they created that opened over the north pole, but they were still technologically similar to us, then that would make a good plot right there..

BTW, for an interesting novel about an alien invasion and the world’s reaction, look up Turtledove’s Worldwar series, which features an alien civilization with tech similar to us in the 1990s, invading earth during WW2.

I did not say the aircraft is inferior. I implied that the claim that the AESA radar is superior is false.

Manufacturer is saying it is not inferior to F-18E radar which is larger aircraft and more in line with Su-35. so how it is not superior to non-existent EU AESA. remember Russians work in different time lines and cost schedules that no one can match.

Words words words.

Well, the French could sell their souls to somehow nab the deal with their Rafales…

My two pesos on the contenders:

Rafale: Certainly doable, considering that the IAF already has some French aircraft in service. But would the French be willing to cooperate?

Typhoon: It’s relative lack of multirole capability as of the now might hurt it like in… singapore, I think it was. Besides, in general it’s pretty similar capability wise to the Su-30MKIs they already have; I’m sure the Indians would prefer something cheaper and more multiroleish, if you get me…

F-16IN: Politics will probably stop this one (Pakistan already owns them). And buying American nowadays is just messy from what I’ve seen.

FA-18E:

Gripen: It can be debated that the Gripen and Tejas are too close in capability and it would become redundant. And it’s small size and payload might hurt it.

Mig-35: Here’s the one I’m voting for. Common architecture with the IN’s Mig-29Ks and it’s already good business relationship in place with Russia speaks good things for this plane’s future. It’s a medium weight and sits right in the balance between the lightweight Tejas and the heavyweight Flanker in IAF service.

Has anyone seen this simulation at all, or am I the only one?

It exists only in your mind.

I don’t know if this is true, but apparently if any of the computers fail in the Typhoon it’s going to crash. Unless the person who told me this was chatting rubbish! Don’t they have a back up system?

The same could be said for ANY modern fighter with FBW and the likes nowadays. I’m not familiar with the Typh’s systems, but I do know that double/triple/quadruple redundancy is common on electric fighters.

For example, the X-29 would fall out of the sky if it’s FBW failed, so it had a total of four identical computers; if one failed or malfunctioned, the other three could pick up the slack. You would need to have all four computers malfunction during a single flight for you to have a catastrophic failure like that, which is extremely unlikely barring an EMP pulse during a nuclear war (and at that point you have bigger things to worry about). But dont quote me on that…

The Wright Flyer. Duh.

Missiles fly straight, of course, instead of ballistic.

Hmm? :confused: How should they fly in real life?

And… “Mirage Rafale”? Maybe Dassault got a name change? 😀

Quote: “Aircraft like the… French-built Rafale are widely exported and easily obtained..”

😀

EDIT: The Su-47 sequence was just… *facepalm*

And DOES the Su-47 have thrust vectoring…?