You’d better Never tell me again I am not supporting the Fr Industry. Never!

*by the way, cheese…really?

Afterall, part of the greek offsets for M2K were… Olive oil…

I did not mean it COULD not do that with proper refueling etcµ. (in fact i do not the heck know if it can). But such a heavy mission for recently comissioned aircraft in an area extemely sensitive and surveyed look highly improbable and risky for no real gain.

IF and that is a huge IF you believe it… Where did they refuel btw? Because described missions largely exceed range…

Well after the G7 summit this weekend, I think it’s safe to say that Trudeau is on the phone with the DND urging them to purchase F-35’s and Super Hornets from the US.

Ooph, that went well.

Sincere condolences (i insist on sincere, noone deserves what you american are living)

This mmorning, RSD (Rafale Solo Display) did a quick pass at Mach Loop. Be ready for avalanche of photos.

Already posted somewhere…

https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/nouvelle-aquitaine/emissions/carnets-de-vol

For the sake of information, at one moment, the pilot is saying to the journalist that they had reached mach 1.7 (if you look at the video, with 3 tanks). Conclusion of Ric “kiddo” nunes (on F-16) : the video is edited :very_drunk:

The Rubis class was borderline obsolete upon commissioning, insufficient speed, flow noise, machinery noise. Significant redesign and rebuilding was required to make them operationally suitable for ASW operations.

Did not prevent the Saphir from virtually sink the Roosevelt despite its fine escort…

And afaik there is a huge differerence between “normal” (discovered AFTER lauching full production) issues and accepting a acknowledgingly failed (with CAT 1 failures) product to start full production. The forensic accounting was the accounted based on the only relaible source : simply summing up contracts of a batch. It was not a cost analysis.