i’ve seen and lost a video of F-35 arrested landing, could anyone help me please?

I know hence the wink A well written article imho.

Thank you, did my best to emphasize qualities of Rafale (and i know there is a small mistake btw) instead of bashing other contenders (or as less as possible).
Not a “Friday post” :eagerness:

Hey cool down, it’s friday!

But one can appreciate the Indian position as well — it guarantees that ToT will be delivered in a timely and moreover useful fashion. Otherwise it is all too easy for Dassault to hold back on addressing foreseeable issues (relating to e.g. dependencies between technologies/components) and then to blame India/HAL for unsatisfactory progress that mysteriously makes substitution with French-manufactured components/airframes a suddenly compelling prospect. It is the sort of dilemma that will eventually be sorted through endless pages of hideously complicated obligation, counter-obligation, escape clause, etc. At this point in the negotiation process I doubt the one-line summary “lolz, India wants Dassault to guarantee performance of Indian companies” is a useful description of day-to-day developments.

I was escorting the export contract for Leclerc to UAE, some years ago. A full A320 was needed just for the papers…

So Pentagon lobbied against its own Contractor? Lets see some proof that the pentagon lobbied and ‘influenced’ each and every Living ex ROKAF air Chief for their support on the F-35. 🙂

Coming back to Canada, I agree with Lukos, the others should re-consider their bid as its going to be very very unlikely that Canada rejects both the F-35 and the cheaper ‘safer’ Super Hornet especially with Boeing at the desperation they find themselves in. Both Boeing and Lockheed can offer any offset or industry work at par or superior to what EADS or Dassault are able to offer. Even if there is a competition (a big if) its going to be between Boeing and Lockheed. Boeing may not be in the game for long however, so perhaps its up to them to seek help to win some middle eastern orders in the meanwhile 😉

I think that a F-18 purchase would be considered as a semi-victory by other contenders as it would break the F-35 hegemonic system.

Yeah just how Lockheed was able to totally win over every living ROKAF Air Chief ( I am still waiting for some proof on that btw). The Canadian choice will be between the Super Hornet and the JSF the rest are just there to keep the other two bidders honest .

You mean the very same that chose F-15 K after it lost both technical and financial evaluation?

On top of what Spitfire9 and Swerve mentioned the RB199 was also offered for severall projects, it lost the original competition for the Gripen, the final version of the ALR Piranha was going to be powered by an RB199, the Mirage 3000 was a twin engined RB199 concept that was discarded in favour of the M83 Mirage 4000.

Errrr….

Don’t shoot the messenger…

http://warisaracket.org/tale.html