In fact , civil compliance was a real hurdle to A400M. They wanted it so as to be able to use civilian corridors etc.

Budget cuts.

More seriously, it is probably a condition imposed by the Baghdad government.

Probably. I guess pilots appreciate…

No, afaik, but are you saying inner wing station or central station?

Rockwell Collins proposed a derivative of HMDS for Rafale. At the same time, Thalès, now owner of visionix, is claiming intellectual property of key elements of HMDS… To continue :very_drunk:

Massively limiting higher education options? Edimburgh etc universities are massively limited now?

I stand corrected.

…which is fine but for the UK desire to be able to do it independently from the US.

I’m sure the UK (and France, although Northrop isn’t talking at them) is aware that the UCAV will need range, stealth and payload so what is really behind this approach…..

Either they are trying to tear apart EFCAS and join BAE (afterall building an operational X47 would be very expensive) or they have further views. (After all he cites nEUROn) and try to build a JUCAV

As are you sir. Pilots… journalists… show me hard physical evidence. I asked for the altitude of this 20nm range over the shoulder shot with MICA and everything went quiet. Why? The BS processors burnt out, that’s why.

Meanwhile I offer this evidence of a 10nm range shot requiring 2 aircraft and laser:

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/new-radar-could-boost-rafale39s-export-prospects-318499/

So all you really have, with entirely passive targeting, is a 7.8nm shot as kindly demonstrated here:

So thanks, passive targeting will work after you’ve been killed dozens of times with active targeting from over 20nm away.

Your usual blah blah…