I didn’t really want to be moderator of such a forum… its lots of work or none at all depending on how you moderate.

Personally while I enjoy Crobato’s posts, he seems more prone than most to getting into slanging matches. What you need in a moderator is someone who can stand back from the argument, not get stuck in. Now, everyone has bad days, I know I’ve got annoyed from time to time, but you have to stop and stand back, think before posting.

That’s great for Germany but I wanna ask:

1. Why did the Typhoon ditch the French M-88 engine and develop a new one from scratch? If Typhoon is meant to build for Europe I don’t understand it.

2. Comtemporary US aircraft fighters prefer to use double vertical tails if twin engines are used. Why typhoon doesn’t follow this doctrine? I’ve heard double vertical tails is better than a single coz it has a low RCS. Even JSF uses double tails despite it’s single engine. And Mig 1.44 is an another example.

3. Will a naval version of Typhoon be developed in the future? England which is among the joint development nations has a couple of aircraft carriers. If a naval Typhoon will be built, how does the JSF which England may purchase in the future fit in?

4. I’ve heard Pakistani often dream of purchasing Typhoon as their new high end aircraft fighters which can form a high-low mix with their future FC-1. Will Typhoon available for export?

1: The M-88 was designed for Rafale about the same time as EJ-200 for Typhoon. Your statement makes no sense- M-88 didn’t exist at the time.

2: A single tail was considered adequate, lower weight, and out of the way of vortices from the canards,etc.

3: No

4: Not likely anytime soon

I read a US report that mentioned Kh-31P being used against AWACS- it said that E-3 was potentially vulnerable but E-2 not as it used longer wavelengths.

Andrei Fomin worked very closely with Sukhoi when writing his book. Its pretty good overall, certainly the best book on Su-27, but it does have some mistakes. Andrei Fomin posts on a Russian language forum I visit sometimes, and he was recently admitting that he was wrong to say that the IR R-27 models have INS+datalink.

He did mention a new edition as well, IIRC 😉

No, I’m an amateur interested in planes and computers 😉

I found that image on a website, so I can’t take credit for it.

Its a myth that the F-22 uses “an i960 processor”. It uses banks and banks of processors, both i960 and PowerPC. Individually a PIV might beat each processor, but there are LOADS of em in there, in a big rack thingy (CIP).