They'd still be flying Spitfires. Mind you that would be quite a sight.arfah wrote:I'm pretty sure the Israel Air and Space Force is not funded by the UK MOD.shark bait wrote:Israel's never has an issue.arfah wrote:Saving kajillions of £££££££££££££'s on wasted development. It's not cheap trying to adjust technological designs for bespoke UK requirements.
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US financial help to Israel is certainly very useful, but is pretty much the money they spend to buy US kit, and it is something to the tune of 3 billion USD a year.
It clearly isn't the explanation to their own systems and their smart adaptations and enhancements to kit they procure abroad.
It clearly isn't the explanation to their own systems and their smart adaptations and enhancements to kit they procure abroad.
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A lot of it actually goes to co-development programes too ('Arrow' for example) and, also, since the F-35 is US kit i could well see Israeli enhancements falling under aid provisions, no?Gabriele wrote:US financial help to Israel is certainly very useful, but is pretty much the money they spend to buy US kit, and it is something to the tune of 3 billion USD a year.
It clearly isn't the explanation to their own systems and their smart adaptations and enhancements to kit they procure abroad.
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It must be nice to be given $3 billion every year to spend on US kit! No wonder Israel has such a large well equipped military.
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Only $3 billion? We wishWhitestElephant wrote:It must be nice to be given $3 billion every year to spend on US kit! No wonder Israel has such a large well equipped military.
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Well committing genocide and a gradual occupation isn't cheap!WhitestElephant wrote:It must be nice to be given $3 billion every year to spend on US kit! No wonder Israel has such a large well equipped military.
It's a shame that US republicans didn't believe the UK was the key to getting them into heaven otherwise we could have a carrier full of Dave-B's for free.
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If only we'd taken Blake's advice and built Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land.WhiteWhale wrote:It's a shame that US republicans didn't believe the UK was the key to getting them into heaven otherwise we could have a carrier full of Dave-B's for free.WhitestElephant wrote:It must be nice to be given $3 billion every year to spend on US kit! No wonder Israel has such a large well equipped military.
Maybe instead of Slough.
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Genocide?? Srsly?WhiteWhale wrote:Well committing genocide and a gradual occupation isn't cheap!WhitestElephant wrote:It must be nice to be given $3 billion every year to spend on US kit! No wonder Israel has such a large well equipped military.
It's a shame that US republicans didn't believe the UK was the key to getting them into heaven otherwise we could have a carrier full of Dave-B's for free.
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Genocide ?? the middle east is full of countries with questionable human rights ,some with vast oil reserves also receive the benefit of arms deals and specialised training to assist the regimes from changing
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Some news about the upcoming Farnborough Airshow and the appearance of the F35 plus some titbits about Apache and the P8.
http://www.defensenews.com/story/defens ... /86236940/
http://www.defensenews.com/story/defens ... /86236940/
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This may have been answered before but are there any plans to get portable landing mats for the f35b or is the only considered use is off ships and regular runways
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2 x USMC 1 x UK F-35B Atlantic crossing delayed due to 'air tanker'issues.
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What is it with Farnborough and the F-35 
Lets hope it all gets sorted out.
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BAE and Northrop Grumman are teaming together to bid for operating an Avionics Maintenance Facility for the F35B. Full story can be found at: http://www.defensenews.com/story/defens ... /86505282/
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"And the sky finally made peace with the F-35 after doing all it could to delay this travel..."
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Nice pictures and good to see they arrived safely a piece of History in the making.
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A bit more on this from the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36670106
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36670106
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Is it just me or do those Typhoons look so much better than the F35?
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yeap typhoon looks so much better.
so it took 15 tanks to get across the atlantic.
so it took 15 tanks to get across the atlantic.
