I think the jf17 is the best value of the three, so the topic is moot. Note the ng is not a real plane as of now.

Two cultures divided by a common language indeed.

Do you mean moot as British English I.e. subject to discussion
Or moot as in n American English I.e. irrelevant

?

Gripes looks prettier

french weapons did quite well… the problem being, the french didn’t deliver all the weapons ordered when asked not to do so by the british… had argentina waited for the full delivery of exocets there would have been an entirely different war down there (Vulcans would have been retired – no surprise bombing of port stanley airport) and any fleet coming close would have suffered much heavier losses than what they experienced in 1982

Absolutely correct (and goes further, the docks were annihilated as soon as the task force set sail, that stay of execution would not have happened, one flat top would have been scrapped and the other would have been sold) but that is because the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands was not a principled liberation made on liberal interventionist grounds but a desperate attempt to distract a domestic population.

I will agree with some other posts as well. If the intent is to gain a new territory called the Malvinas then making it too expensive for Britain to garrison is the way forward. However this only works if Argentina can afford to do so (the Cold War ended coz the US bankrupted the USSR if the cost of getting the kit outlined is more than Argentina can bear then it does not really matter how much it is costing the UK)

If revitalising the Argentinian Air Arms I would

Offer basing and training facilities to UK and Brazil
Licence build c295s for the South American markets
Buy Mi17s
Build Pampas and spiral upgrades with the aim of selling a low cost platform to other nations

IIRC that magazine was Warplane, the first one detailed the Tornado IDS and the last the ADV. Battle Flight by C Gibson has a BAe study picture of an F3 carrying 10 Amraam, but it does not explain why this was never pursued by the RAF.

One of the Salamander books (given to my nephew in a fit of stupid pre sons of my own generosity) had an artists impression of an F3 with a triple launcher for asraams on the outer pylon (mind you it also spoke of asraam using TVC so it was out of date when I gave it away)

RAF 303 squadron the most successful (discuss) RAF squadron of WWII. Polish. Invade my homeland? Fine but do not expect me to lay down and give up afterwards.

99th pursuit squadron. The first of the Tuskegee airmen sent overseas (and possibly the first black US squadron?) coz if you are going to fight the great racist then at some point nonsensical views of ‘race’ (humans all round you half wits) have to be challenged somewhere.

top men are on the case.

Top men…

Cool. That’s the directed energy weapon sorted as well then………

My understating is that Jeep carriers were one of the cheap, quick to build light carriers.

With the payoff of being slower and lacking in equipment.

If so then the most recent serious study has been the US arsenal ship.

I could see a role for getting lots of UAVs to sea with warships. Since they are going to be sending data and receiving instruction from other ‘nodes’ in the fleet the fact that their launch, recovery, refuel platform is taking its own sweet time (or even that it had to be sent in the approximate direction before everyone else left) or does not have many sensors of its own.