“What is the likely follow on from this?”

War on the Korean Peninsula, of course. You’re certainly not going to win North Korean “hearts and minds,” by an attack that is barely a step above typical terrorist tactics. This strikes me as an incredibly reckless and short sighted strategy.

LOL @ doppler radar Maws tracking F-22 Shots

Is there something special about the F-22’s missiles?

THE F-32 LEWINSKY I can see it now

I believe the proper nickname was “Monica.” 😀

CF is a lossy dielectric and does not significantly attenuate RF energy. If lossy dielectrics were good RF attenuators, your microwavable chicken dinner (a lossy dielectric) would be raw in the center. :p

Hmm… Perhaps it depends on the fiber. This particular fiber is described as having “high electrical conductivity”:

http://www.tohotenax-eu.com/en/products/whats-carbon-fiber.html

For the record though, I did just eat a microwaveable dinner and indeed it was cold in the center. I was disappointed. 😀

I would think the Super Hornet is the obvious choice, is it not?

It is a photoshop. I forget the artist, but as I recall, the background is actually a gymnasium.

Phantom II,

I think that the total number of M2k’s flying around the world is much less than 600.. I estimate the number in operation outside France to be somewhere between 230-250 and falling , the UAE are trying to get rid of their Mirage’s and I read somewhere that also TAIWAN was not very happy with their M2K’s acquired in 90’s and has been asking the US urgently for new VIPER’s ever since .The Mirage 2000 came late in 1984 at a time when the VIPER was already flying in high altitudes .
The assembly line was closed not because DASSAULT wanted to promote the more capable RAFALE ,it was closed because after the year 2002 nobody was seriously interested in MIRAGE 2000 anymore. The more versatile arche rival Block52+ was cheaper to acquire and operate. Since the fighter is no longer in production,the upgrade costs of existing fleets are extremely high ..

India and Brazil were certainly interested in late model Mirage 2000’s.

Erkokite
you could be right in the design, i dont know
as i read it when there are multiple suppliers, there are multiple names
this indicates that Thales North America Inc. is the sole supplier and supplies the whole system…
“SPECTRA integrated electronic warfare system”
or they would have has just MMIC’s if this was the case and then named other suppliers that built other parts

Components / Fasteners
Ateliers De La Hte. Garonne Solid Rivets:

Aeronautical rivets; Bolts: Aeronautical bolts; Screws: Aeronautical screws

Avibank Mfg. Inc. Fasteners: Pins, bolts, fasteners & accessories

Ho-Ho-Kus, Inc. Fasteners: Clamps and fasteners, nuts, bolts & screws

Materials / Composites
Hexcel Composites Carbon Fibre: Carbon fibers, structural adhesives, honeycombs, prepregs, sandwich panels and reinforcement fabrics

Magnolia Plastics, Inc. Syntactic Composites:
adhesives, coatings and syntactics

Airframe Systems / Weapons Systems
Thales Airborne Systems Surveillance/Air Defense Radar: RBE-2 active electronically scanned array radar

Thales North America Inc. Electronic Warfare Systems: SPECTRA integrated electronic warfare system operating in electromagnetic, laser and infra-red domains

You may be right in that they supply the final, assembled SPECTRA system. However, Thales USA likely sources many parts from other subcontractors as well- could be from France, USA, the UK, etc… They could actually do nothing at all other than assembly/integration for all we know. It may be possible as well that Thales moved the SPECTRA development team to the US at some point after they were privatized, but if French export controls and security clearance regulations are anything like those of the US, then most of SPECTRA’s development would still have to be done by French nationals. It could be somewhere in between. Thales USA may do integration, test, and some development, but the highly classified stuff isn’t done outside of France. Like you said, we don’t know. We’re just speculating really.