I would suggest France go with the Hawk T2. It is very compatible with the British program.

The Hawk seems like a no-brainer given the defense cooperation agreements between the U.K and France. However the French will probably go with the PC-21.

Not sure it even made it to production, there was the one lone prototype of the YAL-1. It would be a massive expense to field a squadron of B747-400-based aircraft. I don’t know for sure, but they require a massive amount of infrastructure to support. Unlike a group of SEAD aircraft.

Haha, why don’t they use a long range HARM, to attack the S-200? Or They should’ve had the Boeing YAL-1 to destroy the long range missiles. But sadly the YAL-1 was phased out of production, only 1 built. The YAL-1 would’ve protected the enemy SAMs. If the enemy SAMs wished to engage the YAL-1 would target the long range missiles and shoot it with a laser.

But it isn’t always the US starting a war, it’s always another country’s war or the US. A war is to stop a threat to the environment or protect the people, but this war on Syria isn’t that important and the US troops can handle these unimportant war. If it was a nuclear war, then everybody would be evacuated to be safe, that would be an important war if it was about nuclear warheads threatening the US.

I don’t think the YAL-1 was designed to eliminate SAM’s, but I could be wrong. In-theatre ballistic missiles and ICBM’s are what the YAL-1 was designed to handle. Besides, there is only one of them, the prototype, in order to be effective you would need more than one.

How much work would it be to take an S-300 and turn it into a surface to surface missile (SSM)? Technically, I guess it is a SSM, since gravity always wins, but I feel as if Assad is getting these items because Russia wants that regime to stay in power. I have no idea which regime would be best for Syria, but it is something the Syrian people should decide.

I wholeheartedly agree. Full-color marking rule!

It is easy to count you know. And number of external pylons has been known since about day1/day2 after T-50-1’s first flight.

I did not know this information (that is why I am here…) No need to be snarky

What makes you think the T-50 can carry more than the F-22, J-20? I don’t see any stores attached to any of the prototypes.