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Don't even think about ordering me anything. I don't mind your opinion

Souvenirs, souvenirs (sigh)

Let's say around 25% will vote for her on first round next elections. In fact she is happy with Trump victory, but i'm not sure it is a good advertisement for her as 76% of french regret it. And some of their views are close (nationalism). But there economical programs are very different. She is...

I would love to know what Howard calls "it's class' about F-16, which i not anymore particularly a "light" plane. Because if it is weight class, Rafale (but not only) can go further, carry more ordnance... Typhoon can go faster etc. Very nice piece of PR.

So let me sum up. IF India buys 100 F-16, than it will be capable of building up to 30/year? To sell to whom? Former F-16 clients are going for F-35 mostly. Thid low cost labour is a joke. A highly skilled worker will be expensive, be it in india or elsewhere.

Yes F-22 sported luneburg lens, quite documented during ATLC.

He is a pilot that have been opposed to F-22 aside ATLC (and shot it in BFM). Besides, he did not tell that Rafale was superior or anything else, just that considering Rafale CLEAN very low RCS and RBE2 performances he would like to play with. I agree there is no way a loaded Rafale could beat a...

By the same token, the pilot who's video in BFM vs F-22 was present recently at a conference in Bordeaux. ("Aquitaine, terre de Rafale"). He clearly stated that (i) Rafale clean RCS was much lower than generally advertized and that (ii) That RBE2 AESA performances were so surprizingly high that...

Yep, but exaflop computer for 2020 is scheduled here (Sequana)

DGA CEO talked briefly about it in front of the parliament commission 2 days ago. He simply stated that he hoped much more orders as µIAF would be very happy with its Rafale and in this case building Rafale in India should be envisaged.

Just a question, why being obsessed with that sanctioned 45 sqds numbers? The important data is "operational contract" aka number and types of missions/cost/availability etc. More important than sheer number of planes no?

Btw, Litening 5 is a US designation. Israeli name it Litening 4 Advanced. (Not that it is of big importance. PPL are arguing about offsets of the deal, separate thread to envision what has already been done (SNECMA and Bharat Forge, Thales and Bharat Electronics, SAMTEL, Reliance Aerospace...)...

I see you liked Stephane's compendium ;)

I understand your point of view and i do like SAAB products. However, Viggen was not technically speaking a canard delta plane, but a double delta (nvm, detail). During the same period, Dassault implemented canards on Mirage III S (another detail). SAAB (in fact the intellectual property is...

The funny part is the usual chinese quibbling : they keep improving vastly their military ordnance, but if a neighbour do the same it is "provocative".

Ok. remind me in a few days. Incidentally. There IS an option (source, you know, close to the file...)

In fact i have a very completely hand written commented SITAC photo (we used a photo from a Vianney article), but i'm not home, and far from beloved files.... (in fact i'm closer to india atm than home). Will try to process while back home. edit : late answering to request.

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Congratulations! A very dangerous development for our air force. This deal took its time yet created trouble for us. I hope you get the targeted numbers achieved as I want to see how we respond to these developments. Source...