Present flight hour cost is around 5000/6000 $ atm in french airforce (recent A&C article)

DEDIRA demonstrator.

Air force brass say air-to-air refuelling ‘critical’ for next fighter, F-35 incompatible with current systems

http://www.leaderpost.com/touch/story.html?id=8528427

Well he is a pilot, not a salesman. And what a pilot!Please also consider his english is really ahem… Worse than mine, could you imagine? (Btw, he speaks french more fluently then english so we talked in french at pas13 ;))

Canadian diplomats, defence officials downplayed auditor general’s F-35 report to allies

OTTAWA — Canadian diplomats and military officers posted abroad were encouraged to downplay a scathing report by the auditor general on the F-35 stealth fighter in discussions with their foreign counterparts last year, emails show.

At one point, they were even instructed to refer to the criticism as a “bureaucratic” issue rather than a substantial problem.

http://www.canada.com/Canadian+diplomats+defence+officials+downplayed+auditor+general+report+allies/8577011/story.html

Very francophile ;)))

Lucky man.

One day for me….

Very interested how T-50 performs in post/near stall.

I’m not sure the term stall still exist for SU35. awesome. On the other hand i’m not sure its useful in A2A (lose of energy) except probably in order to counter missiles prdictive models (which is important). In 2015 tell me, i’ll have a Dassault Chalet access for you!