Going back to my previous post, actually I'm disappointed that they have to tack on an IRST sensor onto a pod onto a hardpoint instead of incorporating it into the airframe, especially since that's a hardpoint for a weapon or another pod.. Japan's F-15Js already do this.
Jump to postI wouldn't be surprised if the 108 number was a result of political pressure from SAAB and the Swedish government. 36 fighters is a very small number to justify a production run of, especially when almost half of that number won't even be assembled in your country.
Jump to postSometimes aircraft get ‘uglier’ as they age with more protrusions etc., but I have to say the latest Eagles are the prettiest, imho. That's an unavoidable consequence of trying to maximize airframe growth potential. It's impressive the protrusions were kept to a minimum on the teen series since tho...
Jump to postI am not going to lower myself to respond to your remarks and will deal with only the FACTS. Ok then. First of all, your justifications are all wrong. Look down shoot-down is a very difficult task when you try it on a Buff. Having flown several Red-Flags I can tell you from personal experience it i...
Jump to postReally? Because you seem to be the one quite mistaken. First of all the threats from likely OPFOR nations are in turn likely to be S2A as that type of defense is more in practice with the affordability and doctrine of those nations, except for the PRC which is still going to possess a significant S2...
Jump to postI disagree on the lack of market of used 767 and especially A330 frames, especially since unlike Boeing Airbus is actively marketing a used boom 330 conversion program, but Ozair brings up a good point about KC-130s and other trash-to-gas haulers. Many of these air forces already operate these types...
Jump to postYou are correct to a point. There is a good possibility low-level could return in cases where there is little air threat. Sure but why? The whole point of low level is to evade high-intensity threats. If only low intensity threats exist the altitude profile will be whatever is best conductive to fu...
Jump to postI know IAI had been floating around a "regional tanker" with a graphic sometimes represented by a Gulfstream which might be on the extreme end of "smaller is better," but the idea is to provide as the name implies a tanker that provides regional support. It wouldn't be able to do...
Jump to posthttps://theaviationist.com/2020/06/03/f-117s-had-an-air-to-air-capability-with-secondary-mission-to-shoot-down-soviet-awacs-former-stealth-pilot-says/ “yes his primary role was attack but having said that, it could actually carry every munition in the inventory at the time of its insertion, with the...
Jump to posttexl1649 wrote:A civil application of the V280 is about the only thing I can think of (which is likely toward 2030 if it wins).
Not looking too good at the moment, is it? Would reported American pressure on non-Turkish companies involved ease if Biden replaced Trump in January? Gee, I wonder if such issues with a despotic, cash-troubled regime like this were predictable to the point where South Korea has to be questioned on...
Jump to postart wrote:
I can think of two benefits: a bit of money, a larger production run.
mmo wrote:The only other weapon is a BDU-33 which is a practice bomb. That is it for weapons.
I'm also inclined to believe that the aircraft may have simply not been in a salvagable state to begin with. It may have simply been thoroughly wrecked. It's virtually impossible to tell without some timely pictures made available.
Jump to postI can see it as a very light fighter at ANG bases, where it would be a trainer for most hours. ...yes, no, maybe? I feel very divided and conflicted on this in terms of opinion. On the one hand, I feel that your suggestion is one of those "stupidly brilliant" ideas that I'm honestly surpr...
Jump to postand you're going to end up with a smaller and less capable frame than a Gripen Do you have a problem with Boeing itself? Actually yes but only insofar as I do with any multi-billion/trillion-dollar global corporation, not to mention this is a non-related and bizarre accusation to make given the con...
Jump to postNYCAAer wrote:To be honest, I won’t miss them! Horrible on transatlantic.
blah blah blah I can't see what you actually wrote because I have you blocked, but I'm sure whatever it was, it was profoundly stupid, the reason why I have you blocked in the first place. ....loitering.... as a matter of fact the Russian 9M730 Burevestnik being developed is intended specifically t...
Jump to postWhatever military applications can be applied to an AW109, can probably be applied to an AW609, and the AW109 is very popular for some military applications. However , this assumes the AW609 even enters production and the entire program isn't written off as a complete failure. I've yet to even hear ...
Jump to postThat's making a fatal and frankly stupid mistake of assuming adding AESA radar to the T-7 is somehow free. The radar unit itself is costly; I think you misread my post. I said the T-7 structural airframe will be half the price. Not the complete flyable aircraft. The AESA radar would be the same cos...
Jump to postreally? what standard runway is going to duplicate traps on a rolling deck in a seagoing condition? All of this Automatic approach equipment they want to develop? Isn't worth a hill of beans if a Pilot can't hitvthe deck at night or in Bad weather. Landing ON a Carrier is what sets Navy pilots apar...
Jump to postUAVs are planned, hopefully, to return to base and be used again. They carry a weapon/ munition that is to be dropped/ launched at a target. They are actively piloted, though do have autopilot capabilities in some models. Even FMC type routing for the autopilot. Missiles, to date, are launch and fo...
Jump to postIf we assume this F-7 fighter would have equal radar to the Gripen E then in any competition the F-7 would win against the Gripen. That's making a fatal and frankly stupid mistake of assuming adding AESA radar to the T-7 is somehow free. The radar unit itself is costly; otherwise every air force wo...
Jump to post(hey, this is a.net) You certainly got that right. Is loitering allowed before a strike is ordered? The technology to allow that to happen is still relatively extremely new and on top of that based very much on operational context. It's not a limitation of propulsion but a limitation of software an...
Jump to postLOL, I am pretty sure no T-38 has ever flown above 60K feet. Strictly speaking not likely true since NASA does use them for research, including programs that likely require exceeding this altitude. How many years until they make a single seat version with AESA and AMRAAM capability? ...many? If at ...
Jump to postmaint123 wrote:So each plane coming in at 60 m usd. Pretty expensive for a home designed and home assembled plane.
art wrote:I can think of two benefits: a bit of money, a larger production run.
Can Indonesia afford to stay in the programme? The bigger question is, why do the Koreans insist on tying their defense programs to the Indonesians in the first place? In my mind, it's akin to Israel having no problem being associated with Apartheid South Africa (then again Israel happily engages i...
Jump to postYou're going to end up with what amounts to dead space anyway. Why not design it to act as storage or as space for future upgrades? I once read that the F-22 was intentionally designed with enough dead space to physically cram the hardware of a CRAY supercomputer into, but of course I defer to peopl...
Jump to postGot up on the wrong side of the bed, huh? Not my point. My point being is that it's a pittance of a consolation prize for tens of thousands of dying due to the genocidal selfishness of a minority of the voting population and the equally genocidal selfishness of the "president" they instal...
Jump to postIt adds base drag and makes the aircraft look ugly, the ugly part is not trivial when you are talking about an aircraft costing many tens of millions. It should look halfway presentable. With that logic, why even paint the aircraft? How about removing skin panels covering flight control actuators a...
Jump to postI don't understand the Navy's thinking in regard to non-carrier capable aircraft. To me this makes no sense. to me. It will be cheaper to practice carrier landings in trainer aircraft than would be in a strike fighter. But it's even cheaper to practice landings in trainer aircraft on shore-based ba...
Jump to postI've deleted the original content as seeing that for some reason I cannot delete the post itself. Hopefully this will make the moderators happy.
Jump to postThere are several AF out there that need the boom for the larger planes. The UK and RAAF will have the P-8's along with the C-17's. Both of those countries have the A330. India, who also have both P-8A and C-17 will also want a larger tanker as well. There will be a few P-8 operators coming on line...
Jump to postIf your country is having a military flyover, it's probably a sign your country's leadership has doomed you. So here's a military flyover as a consolation prize for either being too stuck inside to see it or too busy dying to see it. Every government needs a complete changeover when this is done, bu...
Jump to postAnd the concern for China isn't something necessarily driven by the media, especially here in the United States. China's been a problem for as long as they've been envious of becoming the dominant power of the world, which started decades ago. If it wasn't for their rapid military modernization sin...
Jump to postJust to clarify, I believe Boeing only blocked the 767 tanker mod only for the Isaelis. The Israilies are free fo mod the 767 for tanker duties for other airforces. I should've clarified (since this is what I was thinking and intended) that I was referring specifically to hose-drogue 767 mods. Othe...
Jump to postDigitalSea wrote:Just givin' ya a little run there mate!
China wants to increase its arms dealing to build up dependency on Chinese hardware (similar to how the US executes), and this is already happening all around the road with huge eyes on Africa. That's true, but a major if not the main motivation is profit motive, or at least it's very much equal in...
Jump to postNorthrop is now[sic] slouch in hammering the tax payer too and Boeing still managed to shoot down the EADS/Northrop KC45 which won the original RFP fare and square. That is certainly factually, undeniably true, especially the accusation against Boeing. It's also largely irrelevant to the actual top...
Jump to postReplace a newer generation aircraft (Global Express) with an older one (737)? That's quite a fallacy as these are effectively 737NGs with 1990s technology era wings, empennage, at least 80s (really, again, 90s) era engines and a slew of other "invisible" components. And that's not on top ...
Jump to postThe likely fallout is that Russia also withdraws, like they did with the INF. Which leaves smaller countries without their own satellite program at a disadvantage, since Open Skies intel is shared between all treaty signatory states but satellite images are not. Considering the rate of the US withd...
Jump to posthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiORBFNjLK4 At one point CFD Mountian View had a hangar or two full of Tutors. Not sure if they are still there. The Snowbirds used to continuously cycle through aircraft from this facility. There are enough spare parts and airframes lying around to keep 25 aircraft ...
Jump to postI know nothing about training aircraft. What I was wondering was whether one trainer could simulate either a Gripen C or Gripen E cockpit display at the flick of a software switch. There's no point in even arguing if it's theoretically possible because there's no reason to. You don't need to train ...
Jump to postThere is only one private AAR operator that has boom equipped tankers and the retirement of the KC-10 allows those boom equipped aircraft to move to private operators, either Omega or someone else who bids enough. Enough active, reserve and retired KC-10 aircrew will be available to staff a commerc...
Jump to postJASSM and JASSM-ER are conventional cruise missiles. The AGM-86B is the only nuclear cruise missile currently carried by the B-52. Sorry if this was some sort of sarcasm that I completely missed. That said the USAF is hard at work designing new nuke missiles for the B-52 (and B-1B), including alrea...
Jump to postIt makes sense that they'd want to say the heck with it and display them instead of saving the decals/paint for next year as these are time-sensitive and amounts to barely-veiled advertisements for technical and manufacturing capability anyway. Still, it is relevant to this thread as these are relev...
Jump to postI heard a rumour they had hangars with hundreds of Tutor jets to use but maybe someone with more knowledge can answer more specifically. I know I'm replying late on this point given how things have quickly and tragically shifted, but nonetheless, that's neither efficient nor even possible given how...
Jump to postThis topic and OP reinforce the attitudes I have of the Airliners.net community and why I insist on propagating them, as explained in my choice of forum signature.
Jump to postWill China start rapidly subsidizing the military modernization of countries like Iran & NK in response to this? Absolutely no reason to. Don't read too much into "the enemy of my enemy is my friend:" China and the US are not necessarily enemies and I for one prefer a completely diffe...
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