actually, believing that spectra as suc h is madu in USA seems pretty naive to me…

it doesn’t matter where the mother compatny is, if it’s a US entity, based in US that makes a thing (in the US), the US administration can veto the export of its products, meaning, if, for any reason, rafale was sold to a country the US don’t like, they could block the export of spectra to that country.

What’s more, what’s probably the most sensitive part of the rafale being made entirely outside france? come on.. think a bit before believing something ,which is just a single line from a website…

would be logical that the “cold” air comes from the axle for rotor blades, and from the outer ring for stator blades.. the parts they’re fixed on, basically 😉

when I read “you need to train your pilots for catobar, but for the f35b they’ll just go into service”, sorry, youi’re completely wrong.

the F-35 is controlled differently, flies differently and has completely different performance than the harrier, which means that the pilots transitionning to it would have to go through a complete training program, not necessarily much cheaper or faster than the CATOBAR qualifying… and in any case, any new pilot will have to qualify for the type, one way or the other, making this whole debate pointless in just a few years time

What’s more, the SH acquisition would provide the RN with fighters they can entirely maintain themselves, unlike the F-35… when you get a major problem on an aircraft somewhere on the ocean.. with the SH, you can repair, providing you have sufficient number of parts (which you can prepare before going to sea, just in case), while with the F-35, a number of repairs won’t be doable outside a US maintainance service, which means, that, in case of major failure, you have a nice 15ton piece of stealthy junk wasting space onboard your ship, and which has to stay there until you get back…

I still have to wonder what payload you expect to take up in the air with a skijump-launched SeaGripen… Maybe I missed it, but to accelerate sufficiently in order not to sink into the sea immediately after take off with a heavily loaded aircraft, you’ll need a lot of thrust, lot more than a single F-414 can provide.

Now, the Su-33 with something like 25tons of thrust can take off from a carrier only lightly loaded meaning it has to keep his thrust/weight ratio >1.

the F-414 in the SeaGripen would provide about 10t of thrust. if the same rule applies (t/w >1) you won’t have much load onboard.

the gripen Ng is supposed to weigh 7.1t, a seagripen, with reinforced airfram would weigh a bit more… that would give you, what? 2-2.5t to play with? put some fuel inside so tanks don’t immediately run dry when you light the AB for take off and you don’t have any margin for weapons left.

make it catapult launched aorcraft, and it comes to play with the hornet and the rafale, which is not the same league anymore

jackjack

you say in one post that modifying the airframe for the M-88-9 isn’t worth it, but in another you propose they put the F414 inside, which bis bigger, heavier and need even more work on the airframe to fit.

Does that really sound logical to you?

the problem is that the air inlets won’t allow sufficient airflow for 9t thrust, so, if you want a beefier engine, you need to redo the inlets on the airframe.

the thrust doesn’t come out of nowehere… you need to feed the engine somehow 😉

actually, the aims were to destroy serb military and these were far from achieved (by airpower, at least)

anyway, it’s another story

soon, SAAB willl propose the Ng to local aeroclubs for initial PPL training:

“simple to fly and affordable… better than a Cessna 152 guys!” 😀