And here lies the problem of the Gripen NG compared to the Rafale for Brazil: Sovereignty.

Nic

Google translations are awful & sometimes wrong (ie translate kms in miles), so it would be cool if you could post the original link too when you post french articles.

Nic

Sorry to burst your bubble, ah who am I kidding, no I am not :)… but the only “defining” attribute of 5th Gen fighters is a VLO airframe which the Gripen is NOT.

Oh yeah the F117 is 5th gen. Champagne!

Nic

The whole situation in the Ukraine is of russias making.

:highly_amused::eagerness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huoDKg1SBAY

Well you could make a sea skimming missile that drop a torpedo as soon as it comes out of the earth curvature’s cover, and the torpedo would make the last leg of the attack where no air to air missile can reach it.

Nic

So first we arm & train them, and then we bomb them? Or are we bombing Assad’s regime? Or both?

This sounds like 1984 with bombers flying about & you don’t even know where they strike or whom.

Nic

PS: I love the fact that a country without a proper government manages to launch strikes too, and that the planes even took of before anyone approved said strikes. It goes to prove that all this “government” bull is just pixie dust. Things are decided somewhere else and you don’t have a word to say about them.

Look, western countries never operate covertly anywhere, ever. Only the bad Russians do that.

Bad bad Russians.

Nic