you don’t recognise one of your heroes? …they [whoever they are that did the vid] can’t know too much if they have to use Kopp and his stuff from 33sec

Your daily insult at journalists? Who are you tobe so arrogant?

only 3 “the sky is falling wack jobs’ you guys need to put up more links

Uh? No idea about what you mean

Bite tour tongue, an anonymous blogger called picard578 is about as good as it gets.

Picard isnt really anonymous, Croatian guy, justvask him….

Wrong, i’m french. But i still think P8A isgood, specially in US environment.

The Rafale and Eurofighter for instance both suffered cracking during their durability testing. Do you know how I know this? Because unless you over-engineer your airframe to a ridiculous extent cracks are inevitable by the time an airframe reaches its design life… but where are the stories about this? As for schedule slips, budget overruns, etc, we don’t really need to compare the F-35 to the Rafale and Eurofighter again do we?

All in all you guess something then assert is as a truth.

Audition of MoD by Assemblée Nationale… (google translation, i’m lazy)

Mr. Folliot, the White Paper states that the fighter aircraft will have 225 aircraft in 2025. To achieve this will require Rafale and Mirage 2000 D renovated. The draft LPM provides control of 26 Rafale – 11 in 2014, 11 in 2015 and four in 2016. We will have to eventually replace the Mirage 2000, also does not order the 2016 does mark the end of the commands of Rafale. The text also provides for the development of the new F3R standard Rafale cause an expenditure of € 1.1 billion, which must be added 700 million for the aircraft of the future – namely the UCAV that n ‘is at present at the stage of studies.

I am convinced that we will succeed and, in 2014, we know a successful export. If this was not the case would proceed to a revision in 2015.

Fair enough. I didn’t say Transonic and top speed was that important eighter. For RAAF Requirements, extra range would seem like the most important performance operating out at their wast Sea Territory.
Much the same as With Norway b.t.w.

On a different note, how is the A2G(anti ship) missile coming along for RAAF?
Have they decided which missile they’ll going for?
At the moment the JSM looking good..

So basically RAAF need long range strikers and keep buying short legged planes????