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  • in reply to: Gripen for Switzerland #2323586
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    Freezing assets? All it would take would be for a few secret account details to get accidentally Wikileaked. :diablo:

    Wasn’t wikileaks supposed to “leak” a whole piece about bank of america?

    But then all hell broke loose :rolleyes:

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    in reply to: Strike Eagle load out question #2323938
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    Flight range of the F-15E with no load, external fuel tanks and empty CFT. Note CFT is always empty when it hang bombs. 😉

    Ferry range is 3840 km with full CFT + 3 ET. I doubt that emptying the CFT will reduce the range to a mere 1500km. With about 70% fuel compared to the same configuration with empty CFT, you should get a range figure about 30% inferior to ferry range, so about 2600-2700km.

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    in reply to: Pak-Fa news thread part 20 #2324036
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    I wonder if you can cram 8 meteors in those belly weapons bays. Add two Mica IR in the outboard weapons bays and we can buy about 48 indian manufactured PAK-FA MKF for France’s air defense as an exchange for, say, Rafales for the Indian Navy.

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    in reply to: Strike Eagle load out question #2324296
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    This photo suggests that it would be possible to add 2 outboard wing pylons to put AGM88 or AGM84 if need be.

    http://media.photobucket.com/image/f15%20harpoon/T-O-R-A/harunakurama%20JGSDF/harunakurama%20JMSDF/fximg_1916.jpg?t=1236520255

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    in reply to: Saab Gripen & Gripen NG thread #3 #2326892
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    And if the price doesn’t increase too much. All those goodies surely will come at a cost.

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    in reply to: F-35 News thread. Part Deux #2326895
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    Can MICA eject launch or must it use a rail?

    It can do both.

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    in reply to: Strike Eagle load out question #2326997
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    Well if you want to use both wings hardpoints to carry big missiles, and use just a centerline fuel tank + 4 Amraams & 4 sidewinders for defense… you can still carry a very respectable 15463 litres of fuel.

    You can probably get decent range out of it.

    If you are satisfied with just one cruise missile on centerline, you can carry 17772 liters…

    http://www.f-15e.info/joomla/technology/fuel-system/93-fuel-quantity-indicator

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    in reply to: F-35 News thread. Part Deux #2327166
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    We both know that’s rubbish Dickson. You ARE a yank. You’re telling me that a proud Englishman does not hesitate to trash his “own ” country’s tech ( Typhoon etc.) in favour of some foreign country’s ( F-35/22 etc.) ? Nah , you’re no brit. Certainly , and also certainly not involved in any way with F-35 other than internet pics.

    Well british politicians certainly do… maybe he’s a member of the government or of the MOD?

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    in reply to: Pak-Fa news thread part 20 #2327252
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    Now that sounds very interesting. 😮 And scary too (for a potential oponent). I’m sure the russian tech is far better than some would want us to believe , but still the thought of a PMI with some hybrid east/west AESA, Meteors, Iris-T…it’s exciting. (IF the european missiles , ESM and radar tech lives up to it’s hype, of course)

    Indeed the idea has some merit, if only for the sheer surprise factor. Given proper ToT, Meteor could secretly be integrated into Pak-FA and kept operational to add to the Pak-FA’s arsenal.

    Question is how good are Rafale’s latest radar, ESM , ECM , MAWS, LWS etc compared to equivalent systems produced in Russia for the latest MiGs and Sukhois. Besides , do they have any sort of DIRCM defense system in the pipeline like T-50 does?

    ECM has always been a french strongpoint so I suppose those are very good. As for the DIRCM question… the new Rafale MAWS (DDM-NG) is DIRCM compatible, so it wouldn’t be that much trouble to add DIRCM to the Rafale.

    If there’s no significant difference then there’s no point in hybridization imo.

    I’m not sure if the Meteor will be much better than the future russian missiles, but for sheer surprise I think it is interesting.

    Nic

    in reply to: SAR radar effectiveness in air to surface mission #2328621
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    Is there a way to make your radar work in pure rangefinder mode slaved to an ESM or IRST contact. Such way to get a range to your target would be much more stealthy than with a laser rangefinder right?

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    in reply to: RuAF News and Development Thread 9 #2331380
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    Is there any information of what the Tu22M3M upgrade consists of?

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    in reply to: F-35 News thread. Part Deux #2332607
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    http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_08_16_2012_p0-486738.xml&p=5

    http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_05_09_2012_p0-456228.xml

    OK, its a naval program.

    But, it is (yet) another reason why Lockheed and the US military’s word isn’t worth sh!t when it comes to accurately portraying the actual capabilities of its in-development equipment.

    Lockheed Martin doing what they’re best at… AGAIN.

    Nic

    in reply to: UK/France future combat aircraft studies confirmed #2339784
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    I think democracy & the people are nearly as much to blame as politicians.
    Who do the people elect ?
    1] The politician who promises balance in check through austerity ?
    2] The politician who promises to borrow money to keep voters happy
    and let the yet to be born generation(s) pay the bill ?

    You’re right. Democracy is the dictature of those who control monetary creation and the media.

    Basically the people vote for who the media wants elected. And who controls the media?

    This media control is made much easier when people are brainwashed from their early days in school, and then through movies, TV, sports and what not. When for instance 90% of the french teachers vote for the left, how can you even dare say that we live in a democratic country? And what effet could it have on the “education” of french kids?

    The french “education” nationale even had a famous “French” teacher who had been the number two of a vietcong camp torturing and killing french soldiers captured in viet nam, and spent the time after the war until 1967 in the czech republic studying how he could better serve Moscow once back in France. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Boudarel The vietnam embassy of the time even provided him bogygard for his courses at the Jussieu university. Cherry on the cake, the president of the Jussieu university at the time was a good friend of the French-German politician-traitor daniel kohn bendit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Cohn-Bendit

    Nic

    in reply to: UK/France future combat aircraft studies confirmed #2339922
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    @nic

    That’s one way to see things (all is the fault of others…) Although at this stage as we are I agree with you: monetary creation, a bit of inflation, the exit of Eurozone, a under-evaluated crappy currency for us and some kind of protectionism seems one way to recover margins of action for France now.

    Make a default on the all the debt except for French people owned debt & retirement/pension funds of french people. We owe nothing. Traitors have endebted us willfully so we the people shouldn’t honour that debt. Period. Just do a 2/3 default and pay only the people we really owe money.

    But no mistake: the Euro and all are not the reason of the problems.
    There are no conspiracy anywhere.
    The reason is our own side and we’ll just have to appologize to our partners when we’ll leave this mess (voluntary or not, the sooner the better)

    Indeed. Paper money is, be it the Euro or the Franc. But the Euro makes things even worse because we have absoluty no control over it. And our economy needs a devalued money whereas Germany needs a strong money.

    1974: 2.5 M civil servant (as everybody know: France was like Zimbabwee back then, people weren’t going to school to learn writting French correctly, there were no cops and no security in the streets, there were no nurses nor doctors and we all born in caves…)
    1982: 4 M civil servant
    2011: 5 Millions.

    Agree there are way too much and they work against us and not for us.

    When it was the hell in France without so many bureaucrats and social assistants: creation of a top nuclear industry both civilian and military, 85% of our electricity became nuclear and independant, creation of a top aviation industry both civilian and military, Concorde, Airbus, Mirages, missiles, helicopteres, fast trains, Ariane rocket, etc…

    Don’t get me started on the nuclear lobby in France 🙁

    We have the possibility to do everything independantly, easy… just fire one civil servant on two…
    Then you can even create money if you want to as well, because you also creat stuffs to put on front of it and you’re efficient. Otherwise it’s hyper-inflation and nothing more.

    You can’t create money, because it’s illegal since 1973 & the european treaties confirm it. Only bankers can create money. The state is powerless.

    But since we’re not going to do it: the more I see the Germans, the more I like the British 😀

    let’s go with the British cooperation, Sarkozy-Cameron plan was a not too bad plan.

    Plan for some lube.

    in reply to: UK/France future combat aircraft studies confirmed #2341622
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    please refrain from making ridiculous sweeping statements. I find your public distaste of the British both borderline racist and insulting.

    I never stated anything about a disdain for the Brits, I have a disdain for the british (and french) politicians though. And I think that their first victims are the British themselves.

    Heck one of my cousins is a Bobby.

    Nic

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