I am sure if you are volunteering to be the one that captures two heavily armed fanatics who view martyrdom as a glorious death, the rest of the armed response team would applaud you heartily and then pee themselves laughing after you set off to do it.

Moggy

You don’t give much credit to the french police & special forces. I’m not surprised. Maybe we should ask the SAS to do the hard work then?

Nic

Well Rafale is out too, since the french would support the UK against Argentina if a conflict arose & compromise the Rafale’s systems. The only realistic choice would be Chinese or Russian.

Nic

Muslims shouldn’t be blamed, and they have nothing to apologize for. But they must do more to help tackle this problem.

Actually some of them are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWc3qX30SZM

Which reminds me that I should remove the sig.

Nic

The Mirage-2000 would in total exceed the 6000 hours original service life with additional few thousand hours, but there is no source for how much additional service life is going to be obtained. FYI, HAL had reported that the Mirage airframe was exceptionally robust, with overhauls revealing no fatigue issues with the airframe at all, unlike in the case of the Jaguar where every 1 out of 5 Jaguars overhauled had some fatigue cracks reported.

http://info-aviation.com/?p=9799

La modernisation devrait permettre une durée d’environ 20-25 ans, soit un surplus de 6000 à 7500 heures de vol.

“un surplus de 6000 Ã 7500 heures” = “with an extra 6000 to 7500 hours’

Green ink ahoy! Are you alright in the head, son?

Quite actually.

Nic

There is no real freedom of speech in France. Yes on a personal level you can say pretty much whatever you want, but in the media if you say something that goes against the ideology then you’re out.

Charlie hebdo “journalists” were doing their part in the system’s propaganda, they were libertarian (morally not economically) ideologists of the extremist kind, and don’t worry they didn’t give a rat’s ass about the freedom of expressions of other thought currents. BTW the “journal was bankrupt” and wasn’t closed already only because a fire in their locals allowed them to get insurance & some support.

Now I really feel bad for the cops who were shot down. That is the real tragedy, but charlie hebdo can blow me.

BTW real fundamentalists would have burnt the “offending drawings” before shooting the perpetrators. They’re supposed to destroy the object of the insult, which is their most important task.

Those killers’ most important task seem to have been to create a trauma in the french people, & create a divide between french muslims & white people, which they achieved by shooting a cop dead in front of a camera.

Nic

F-22/35 was designed to be penetrate ground radar of double digit SAM such as S-300/400 so i dont think that the integrated antenna on Rafale body would make much of different, not only would it required more power, it also make the Rafale heavier ( not good for a light aircraft) , it wouldnt increase the Rafale detection range alot because the only think point ahead is the nose and slat, also Lband radar would required more power than X band, so i doubt that it would work again Stealth
also F-35 since it have small RCS, jamming will be alot more effective

If you need to provide max power all the time to emit in all directions at once, I think you should hire some better mission planners.

Nic