Oh, you meant the vertical stab ? Sorry, I was searching for horizontal stab VG …

Yes, me too. Indeed the question was pretty much specific:

#2 — Name at least one jet with variable sweep horizontal tail plane

But clearly on the XF-90 photo there is something for the vert stab variable sweep, and not for the horiz one.

The current military value of an (even seriously-upgraded) A-4 is very limited…
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I can’t help thinking that the threat is very limited, too.

AFAIK aircraft carriers are useful either to protect faraway territories (colonies, islands, etc) or for imperialist-type projection of power to remote places. (imperialist not meant as a judgement, as in policing the imperium).

To my knowledge Brazil doesn’t have many overseas colonies to defend, nor does it have the realistic means of launching an imperialist-type expeditionnary force again overseas countries.

Furthermore, AFAICS all the countries that Brazil would want to deter or intimidate appear to me much more conveniently reachable overland than via a carrier.

In summary, I wonder if the main justification of the carrier is for the navy to have as long a penis as the air force. Something a la Argentina 1980ies.

In which case the only acceptable selection process is to see what the AF get as next plane, and THEN you have the yardstick to beat. :diablo: :diablo: :diablo:

Iconoclastic considerations aside, the A-4 seems the only realistic fixed-wing option, yes. With French SUEs being a distant runner up: after all, they work well on this carrier, and the French are phasing out their SUEs. Which have been much more thoroughly modernized than A-4s.

Of course, there is a cost to zero-houring the airframe, but for a few planes we are not talking that big money.

Could you give us names of best scoring Israeli fighter pilots in 1982 Beka war and their scores ?

I don’t think tsahl ever published this (yet), but several sites give detailed lists.

Try http://home.sprynet.com/~anneled/IAFclaims.html

#9 — Name at least nine British jet-powered fighters/fighterbombers operationally involved in an Iraqi invasion scenario of Kuwait
1 – Tornado, 2- Buccaneer, 3 – Jaguar, 4 – Hawk, 5/6 – Hunter (RAF and Iraqi AF). flex and King J.
7 – Sea Vixen — Transall. 3 missing
8 – Vampire, 9 – Venom — Flood
This question pivots around the fact that in 1961 “Operation Vantage” the RN and RAF deployed to Kuwait to fend off an Iraqi invasion, the second time was of course Desert Shield/Storm.

EE Lightning already submitted, adding
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And there was one jet fighter …

Do you count MiG-25U and SR-71B ?

#2 — Name at least one jet with variable sweep horizontal tail plane

X4 ?

#4 — There are some two-seaters with lateral seat arrangements, some with longitudinal arrangements. Name one with a vertical arrangement!

Breguet Alizé; A-1 Skyraider.

#9 — Name at least nine British jet-powered fighters/fighterbombers operationally involved in an Iraqi invasion scenario of Kuwait
1 – Tornado, 2- Buccaneer, 3 – Jaguar, 4 – Hawk, 5/6 – Hunter (RAF and Iraqi AF). flex and King J.
7 – Sea Vixen — Transall. 3 missing
8 – Vampire, 9 – Venom — Flood
This question pivots around the fact that in 1961 “Operation Vantage” the RN and RAF deployed to Kuwait to fend off an Iraqi invasion, the second time was of course Desert Shield/Storm.

EE Lightning?

no nation that has nukes has the moral grounds to dictate who is allowed to have nuclear weapons and their delivery systems and who is not

Garbage.
Every moderately-intelligent citizen of this planet can see that the Iranian mullahs should not have nukes.

They should already not even be allowed to oppress and obscure the Iranians, but as long as it is “only” them, well, though for the poor sods but it is not too dangerous for us. Once they have nukes, they are DANGEROUS.

Every citizen of this planet has the right to stop them, for the same reason that every adult has the right to stop children playing with matches in the wrong places. This simple.