No

45.9nb is total cost of ownership.

Nic

Contrast to what Picard may try to tell you , Rafale M is not the same as the land version. Its body is re-enforced to land on carrier.
Also using your logic, how about Mirage 2000 that can do 90% mission of Rafale C , so what the point of having Rafale C ?

Wrong the rafale M isn’t “reinforced”.

Nic

It would be sensible to cut the C entirely & order a few B & more SH, in order to free more budget to accelerate the 6th gen fighter development to be shared with USAF to replace F22.

Nic

Here

To be frank , your so called “various source reading” is nothing more than confirmatory bias

Then I’m afraid you ought to learn how to read.

Nic

Where did i said US has no agenda of themselves ? I simply point out Nicolas hypocrisy when he said RT narrative is more sensible because somehow in his eye only Western governments have political agenda

Caught lying there buddy. Don’t want to be called a liar? Just quote where I said this.

Nic

No, while they may sometimes be controllable at very high AoA, they aren’t safe and predictable to operate there, which is why the limits were set where they were.

If additional capability was available, why are they working to improve the Eurofighter’s AoA?

Ahem I talked about the Gripen & the Rafale, I didn’t talk about the typhoon. It’s not comparable because of its canard configuration.

Also, the F-35’s final limit is already set, at 50 degrees AoA. It was tested at higher AoA. (And the F-35 is hardly the first US fighter with high AoA capabilities, the original Hornet, Super Hornet, and F-22 all have similar or greater high AoA capabilities. )

What’s sad is that the thing probably can’t turn with low enough AoA, so I guess they set its max allowable AoA to 50 so it gets a chance to not get slaughtered.

I guess stealth replaces energy management, not agility as youse guys claim.

Nic

Freedom bombs for Fallujah and war crime bombs for Aleppo. Yes. I get it.

Speaking of public relations..
Amnesty: Coalition using white phosphorus in Mosul – Middle East …
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20161029-amnesty-coalition-using-white-phosp…

No wonder they don’t mind flattening the place and its population… doing ISIS’ job yet again…

the Assyrian Christian town of Karemlesh

Well, in my experience what little material RT get a hold of that is NOT also available to Western media too often later proves to be (deliberately!) fake and taken grossly out of context for me to consider their point of view at all trustworthy. Manipulation on the part of the editorial staff is rare in Western media but all over the place with RT (unless the subject does not involve Russian interests – which in itself is telling).

FFS. one has to be retarded to take the point of view of ANY media outlet whatsoever. Just collect facts from different and contradictory sources & cross check them with other sources.

I don’t see how it’s better to gobble from one source vs another. They are all trying to fit someone’s narrative. RT as well as all western media.

Only difference is that RT’s narrative is much more sensible than the western narrative in the case of Syria, because our dear leaders want to please israel & the us and flatten Syria to install islamists there just like they did in Syria. How could the western media even have any sort of coherent narrative when the US/UK/France promote and aid terrorists in Syria while pretending exactly the opposite.

Nic