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Iran never seizes to amaze me :pop: :lol:

Well, that's what we in Europe said 1914, and again in 1936, and again since that. Times change and so does politics. Overestimating peace is dangerous, and all nations should have the capability to defend themselves. And I understand it's an infected matter in your country, but please leave the...

Rumors are just that, rumors. Russia can still try and pitch the Su-35 how much they want, but officials in the Brazilian air force have already stated that the comeback of the Su-35 would be very unlikely given Russias close ties with Venezuela. What if Brazil were to order the Su-35 and a few...

Well it's important to mention that the F-35 isn't cancelled in Canada, but rather part of an open competition. The F-35 might very well be chosen in the long-run, but I think it's great that Canada doesn't go and make such an important and expensive decision without fully evaluating all the...

I have a hard time imagining how Russia or China would get any of those orders. The "fifth generation" criteria is a funny thing. It doesn't automatically make the aircraft more capable or even better in certain areas. Even if the U.K, Italy, Turkey, Netherlands, Australia, Norway, Denmark...

The Su-35 was eliminated in the evaluation along with amongst the Eurofighter. Rumors of its re-surface is just gossip tabloid-material. The main reason why the Su-35 won't be considered is because Venezuela already has 24 Su-30MK2 and are in discussions of buying additional planes (Su-30/35/50)...

Well not with the Neuron. Great Britain and France have teemed up to make a further development of a UCAV which will get fielded in the future. The Neuron won't live through it. As said, the Neuron was only a demonstrator to share technology and to jointly test new features. There are no plans...

Too bad it's only a technology demonstrator. Would have loved to see it in Swedish/French service and operated jointly with Rafales and Gripens! Hopefully, Saab would be able to integrate some of the new technology harvested from this project into the making of the new Gripen 39E/F.

Well does your list go by "technical lists" or "operative listst"? Since Sweden today only has mere 100 Gripen C/D and a handful of Gripen A/B. Once the Gripen E/F will be introduced, there will be a meager number of around 60 Gripens left. And to that fleet you could add 2 SIGINT S 102B...

I'm sorry what? If you're speaking about the F-X, the F-35 seemingly won over the F/A-18E/F and the Eurofighter to replace their F-4 Phantoms in the primary role of surveillance and reconnaissance. The Dassault Rafale was never really a serious contender and dropped out on their own decision...

Care to share a picture then?

To this date, several F-15C and F-15E has been fitted with AESA radars. None of India's Su-30MKI have been fitted with an AESA, and even if possible future AESA-integration is up for discussion. Apart from that, the Su-30MKI and the F-15E are pretty similar. I'd give the edge to the F-15 in a...

The F-35 has been able to demonstrate it could just reach Mach 1.61 at optimal conditions during its test phase. The max speed of 1.6 "fully loaded" included the carriage of 2 AIM-9 and 2 AIM-120. Not a full strike package with any external load nor any heavy air-ground weaponry. As said, the...

The NG Demonstrator has successfully sustained Supercruise at Mach 1.2 or higher [for a satisfying amount of distance] with the following configurations: - 2xIRIS-T + 4xMeteor + 2x450 gallon external tanks - 2xAIM-9L + 4xAMRAAM + 2x450 gallon external tanks - 2xIRIS-T + 2xMeteor +...

No one ever stated India thought the Gripen was inferior, but Abingdonboy wondered why Switzerland chose the Gripen even though they had ranked the Rafale higher in the initial evaluations. I responded. Secondly, no one really knows why the Gripen 39IN didn't make the shortlist in the M-MRCA...

That's just simply wrong. One can maintain a strong military industry without ever entering a war. Just look at Sweden. Our exports range from everything between trucks and all-terrain-vehicles to smart ammunition and fighter jets. Have we invaded the beaches of Lithuania because of that? Even a...

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They haven't mentioned ANYTHING about the Gripen being the least capable. Armasuisse made an evaluation based on the C/D Gripen (MS19 & MS20), not the 39E/F. Later when the MS21 finally was included, it was severely downgraded with a factor as low as 0.6 due to uncertainty of certain upgrades...

Well Saab has tried to pitch the Gripen in various areas in India. If India were to jump of the indigenous LCA Tejas, Saab would probably be able to offer India the possibility to make a license production of the Gripen to quickly replace the MiG-21s with proven aircraft.

If you take a look at the criterias on which I made my judgement, the F-35 lacks the following; Super cruise capability (no a meager range of 150 miles does not count as supercruise capability), WVR maneuverability (e.g. sustained turn rate, maximum positive and negative G-forces), speed, that...