Probably because active pilots are too busy flying over Iraq/Afghanistan and can’t do it with F22s?

Nic

soo.. F-16XL, AESA upgrades, latest engines and “stealthy” external weapon containers as planned for the F-18 Sounds like dirt cheap to you?:D

Nothing that ain’t available or tested.

Nic

It explicitly works WITHOUT a cue.

Like every other MAWS hopefully :rolleyes:

I agree with you,

In the end it’s the french taxpayer helping greece pay back those greedy and careless french banks; Greece is too big to be allowed to file for bankrupcy. And it’s unfortunate enough to be in the EU.

In the end it always end up with the taxpayer being racketed by the banks or the military/pharmacy/chemical giants.

Nic

Isn’t the AFDS more or less the same weapon as the DWS39 that is used on Swedish Gripens?

Yes

Yet a very good way to hold these two tight… Just to make sure: despite the aid given, they still make money out of it ? When I say all the offsets talks about currently ongoing figther deals, I sometime wonder..

The militaro-industrial complex doesn’t care if the Greek-Turkish planes are paid for by greek/turkish taxpayers or by US taxpayers. It’s just one of many other ways to racket american taxpayers.

Nic

Those were all seen, rightly or wrongly, as Briitish National interest.

Which coincide with the french national interest quite often.

Nic

3) Therefore I can only see CATOBAR occurring if either the F-35B is going to be cancelled, or if there are serious plans to cross-deck with the French or deploy a UCAV that needs to operate in CATOBAR mode within the first 10 – 15 years of the service life of the carriers.

Very good point indeed.

Nic