Accidental cause confirmed by the Fr president Himself after his defense speaker acknowledged earlier the shot down. I guess that some were not happy to let go a Sa7 claims for a SOF helicopter with its extended sophisticated defense suite.
Probably another MGB failure hence (Fr armed force still fly their Puma and Cougar despite 80% of the world fleet being grounded.

Any link about defence speaker saying that???
Btw the chopper was a lybian Mi… Search and you will find photos.

Stop spreading groundless rumours (i’m polite)?

Btw the soldiers weren’t special forces but CPIS… (DGSE service action).

You can tell it wasn’t a US coup because they are better planned/financed and succeed.

Like pig’s bay?

All this talk about heritage is pointless. It is indicative of arguing with a Brexit supporter. Mindless points that end up in one thing. Immigration!

Yup. It is absurd, and it was my very point. Tried to have the forum to stick back to topic few messages ago, as it didn’t work i try a different approach…
Immigration have always been an easy target for populism : when things go wrong, accuse neighbour… History do tell us how it finishes.

But it has nothing to do with aerospace industry/services.

Not really in same class of performance than the Yak-130, but why not a high performance ab initio trainer, like PC-21, in place of the too conservative Yak-152 ??
I really find the Yak-152 uninteresting…(personal view)

PC-21 is not only an ab-initio trainer (and in fact very expensive for that task except if you want to teach tactics, flight systems etc. Before deep handling learning but that is another topic). It is a highly sophisticated training plane with extensive simulation capabilities etc. The only thing it is missing is RL speed… (although it can emulate it, up to 4 vs 4 engagements). Way too expensive?

Yes we have no evidence (and based on the past record of the neuron PR department, if something had happened we would know about it) that this is anything other than flying it at the carrier group to see how well they can detect it.

I’m fairly sure carrier operations were not in the minds of the other partners when then helped design the thing, but the bulk of the French FCAS design work at the moment has produced a shape which is very similar to the X47B, so who knows about the future.

Anw, the Mirage 2000 landing gear fitted on Neuron cannot take deck operations. However, there were several low pass. All in all one can reliably think that most of the operations were led to assess neuron vs maritime group capabilities and probably also to evaluate how the flight system would fare (a prerequisite to modify it for deck ops?)

Genuine question : on which legal basis the 1.5 million UK citizens living abroad since 15 years or more were denied the right to vote?

This thing has beaten an A-4.. I am completely lost for words..
You must be really desperate if that is a reason to celebrate..

Not to mention 5th gen vortices that noone will be able to see before being shot except the 8 F15 that went into dogfight… Oh wait.

Late nite joke, sry 😉