What is the cruise speed of a typhoon with a bomb load? ( inf to f35)
What are the surviving chances of a Typhoon in a contested airspace? (vastly < F35)
What are the cost of operating and buying a Typhoon? (aprox. equal f35)
How many support aircraft are needed for each Typhoon offensive mission? (qty vastly sup. to f35)
What are the capabilities brought by a Typhoon squadron to a country defense? (inf. to f35)
End of Arguments
Bare opinions without any number of facts. You are right. End of arguments as their was none.
clean Typhoon < F-35 < Typhoon with bags in order of total drag.
Assumption. Clueless.
ROFL. Mattis wrote to Belgium Def Min Vandeput to tell him that choosing F-35 could “compensate” for not reaching 2%…
Twisting arms you said?
Israeli Air Force Leaning Toward Upgraded F-15 Over F-35 for Next Fighter Jet Acquisition
Even paid by US taxpayer…
Eurofighter Typhoon will often fly with drop tanks and external weaponry so that will raise its drag profile a lot. The F-35 will usually be flying clean. I doubt if there will be much difference in fuel consumption between both aircraft over their operational lifetimes.
!on the other hand, F-35 will allways be bulky as compared to Eurofighter.
I would mean a pause in block buys. Too many uncertainties on the future of planes purchased (see the 57 first).
May be too dramatic yes. But there are some sentences mentioning a still faulty data fusion for example, that would call for a pause in the program, time to fix everything and THEN go ahead.
I am sorry, but the report is an extensive porn catalog of hundreds of failures and a few folks brag that IOT will start 3 months than expected buy former DOT?
Nonsense. Th jet is immature, data fusion is immature, AMRAAM guidance is immature, helmet is immature etc. What will they test? A prototype? The planes they test are sensed to be representative of full rate production!
[QUOTE]Jet aborts takeoff, catches fire at Nellis Air Force Base[QUOTE]
http://news3lv.com/news/local/fighter-jet-appears-to-have-crashedburned-at-nellis-air-force-base
Huge slap to JPO…
I”m ot sure that the stealthy aspect will be the most important. Useful, certainly. Personnaly i think networking will be the key point. (particularly weapons netlinking a datalink can be jammed for sure, but several?…).
You seemed to miss the part where the FMS announcement includes support through 2030.
Well… This is not the opinion of many belgium commentators. There is nothing stating parts nad sustainment in the FMS text is there?
Ok. Ty.
Last modernized Rafale F1 (Fr Navy) to be delivered soon (or was it the one mentioned by Trappier for 2017?).
Probably. There was an issue on one of the planes (a “Fenwick” broke if i remember well). So i guess it is this one.
Maybe canadian missiles and bombs are near obsolete?