You’d have to be seriously drunk to even want to fly a Tuc inside triple digit SAM range in anger.

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talking from experience?

Let’s say that we have initially a diameter of 1
Add 0.1 at each diametral extremities (the thickness of the added stream) and the new diameter become 1+ 2×0.1 😉

Air intakes are desined for the enhanced air flow? (genuine question)

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/bye-bye-f-35-navys-fa-xx-6th-generation-fighter-coming-69661

It’s advanced.

Probably clickbait sensionalistic article albeit worth reading

You also have to consider what is included as it can be as little as “just gas” to every item from gas, parts, pilot’s wages, his lodging, future upgrades, etc.

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i’m aware of that spud, but we have to do with available numbers (and ways to compute them).

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Targeting pod my ass

explain?

Btw, it could be a recce pod no?

no it wasn’t unique…. F-94C, SabreDog (L & K), F-89, F-102… all were built before the Draken with an operational Datalink.

genuinely interested. Develop please?

Some Mirage operators had a good safety record with the aircraft, some didn’t. Same goes with the F-104. If the SAAB has a substantially better range than the Mirage, well then it might have been a better choice for the RAAF alright – but there are other factors to take into consideration. Perhaps Sweden liked to impose restrictions on how their arms exports were to be used?

What I also find ironic was the fact that the RAAF were not so happy with the Mirage’s Atar powerplant and seriously had plans to swap it with the RR Avon in production. The Draken,of course, already came with the Avon fitted.

I love the Starfighter…

They even made a prototype with the Avon.. Results weren’t great due to differences in size, balance etc.