letter of intention…They need support from everywhere due to GCC issues.

Agree. No problem 😉

2 accidents within 24h at Nellis AFB. First involved 2xA10, no casualty. 2nd an unknown yet airplane, Rip Lt Col Eric Schultz.

It would not surprise me if the submission is rejected on legal grounds. First world military procurement policy is pretty strict and clear to avoid the possibility of subsequent legal action and given two other valid tender submissions appear to have been received there is no excuse the French can made to overcome that, irrespective of how unfair they may have considered the tender itself.

In fact no. There is a kind of special dispensation within european rules about security procurements. It is not like if a judgement from a “supreme court” was needed to cancel a call for proposal to rehash the RF rules (cf. KC46)

/mode “humour” on : Finally, Belgium tender should be cancelled as there is a single vendor issue (BAE).

RFP answer is not contractual Spud. Only best offer in february is.
Btw, i have an explanation from a thales guy about F-22 and to a lesser extent F-35 playing “quaterbacks” with european jetz during trilat : more powerful LPI mode, with more time compression (not needed on less stealthy jets).
About respect, french MoA had a long talk with VandePut before releasing its proposal.

Tremendous statement! Well arumented!

In the meanwhile, Dassault do consider the RFGP to be biased in favour of F-35. (“nato missions” aka b-61; scenarii (albeit we tried one on COMANO, not really in favour of F-35 block III i iknow, it is a game) iaed in favour of F-35 strongpoints ; contract structure similar to FMS etc, very very low importance of offsets and ToT…
Fair from DA/french government to move game on politics/european yard using the “Trump factor”.

yah o. lost something in translation. and yes. uses radar for real time map generation. (numerical ones are finer).