Ron5 wrote:for possibly the worst government defence customer in the world)

Come on...give the Canadians and Indians some credit....

1. Wouldn't a next gen Gripon need to carry weapons and extra fuel internally for LO? In which case, wouldn't it have to be larger? Absolutely, and that's an area where 2 engines isn't such a disadvantage. Suddenly you have all of that hull volume for fuel and a decent weapons bay. Come to think of...

Ok, but is the Gripen not significantly less capable than the Typhoon? Massively so. When its loaded with any stores of note its performance isn't going to be sparkling to say the least. It can't escape the lack of thrust, lack of conformal carry etc. It's perfectly find for Sweden or other nations...

What are the options? It's likely a new Ajax variant, or a new Boxer variant so their is no quick drop in solution. That's two half developed possible solutions, would that take substantially longer than CSP to deliver? Get Ajax as an IFV, carry on with Boxer and take the turrets off Warrior and re...

And I know its Sputnik but there are some direct quotes from Enders there as well...

https://sputniknews.com/business/201807 ... jet-units/

Everyone seems to have missed this...

Looks like Tempest is shaking things up...

However this is all water under the bridge, the MoD is stuck with contract. And its important to note that the MoD had no choice. The Treasury is at fault here. MoD's only option to replace the VC.10 and Tristar fleets that were on the cusp of being unable to fly was via a PFI at Treasury insistenc...

phoon with various upgrade proposals. The AMK is interesting. Initially it was all about low speed agility, which didn't seem to interest the RAF, understandably, as the Typhoon is a high energy fighter. Like the F-22 that is where its advantage lies. It will win every fight if it stays in that reg...

Dahedd wrote:robably a million reasons why its not practical but I thought I'd ask.

The support costs for Typhoon would cripple them, I'm afraid to say second hand F-16 would be their best bet.

Thanks for the information Is your view that the MBDA work in particular is an unnecessary piece of duplication? I can understand MMP being developed as it is substantially different to Javelin, MILAN had a decent sales record that would be nice to repeat. But with MBDA already offering Brimstone a...

sunstersun wrote:Both of these things in combination with long range warfare make speed, agility and dogfighting 99% irrelevant. Dog fighting is like an army focusing on knife fights. Missiles are getting longer in range, not shorter.

Thats true to an extent...until ROE are thrown into the mix...

Cruises with 2. I also seem to remember some point about the engines being close to the body being advantageous for sensor use... though can't remember exactly why I do remember hearing that the wing root mounted engines resonated less noise downwards for an enemy sonar to detect than a turboprop o...

Then coming back to the numbers of Poseidon would,nt it be more effective and cheaper to equip tankers with the flying boom to increase mission hours and range of the ordered aircraft before purchasing more Poseidons All depends if you think there are enough AAR assets to be sent out to meet Poseid...

jimthelad wrote:30mm so the weren't included in the sale

I thought the DS30M were included in the sale?

Really you ordered in 2017 and 1st aircraft in 2019, 2years bloody good if you ask me. It's actually pretty decent like you say. One of the RAF pilots on Seedcorn has actually now got 1,000 hours on type as well so we're not going to be short of well trained crews. The article also confirms Mk.54 a...

Can’t say I agree with all that can’t climb, can’t turn or run away stuff after seeing this.... Have to say the critics of the F-35 have begun to quieten down over the last 6 months. Give it a couple of years and they'll be denying that they were ever against it...its getting harder and harder to h...

Maybe they're just embarrassed to be investing in the UK given all their corporate BS about leaving the UK after Brexit A whole lot more detail in this article...definitely Farnborough 100 day mission duration The UK MoD ones are almost finished (see picture in article) Airbus look to be building 4...

Halidon wrote:Yes the timing and presentation were definitely done with more than one eye to countering the disastrous Brexit issues May's government is dealing with.

To be fair Farnborough only comes around every 2 years..

Netherlands buying 4 MQ-9 Reaper.

Not the latest Protector version...also unarmed, which seems like quite an oversight.

https://www.defensenews.com/digital-sho ... er-drones/

Frenchie wrote: Lockheed Martin with a modernized version of Hellfire, or MBDA and its MHT, EMMH, and Brimstone 3 are in competition and the winner will be known in 2020 minimum.

It appears that the Spike is in the mix as well.

It also looks like the PARS (LR Trigat) programme was a massive failure in the end.

insisted on a Nimrod because an upgrade rather than a new aircraft would be more sellable to the politicos. The story I was told was that following the BAE sale of their stake in Airbus they wanted all of the pie for themselves, rather than becoming a prime and sharing some with Airbus (both re-bui...

I spent 10 minutes on google and couldn't find out where their new production facility was located. Very odd. It is (not the Google bit, sounds like they don't know either), and I'm basing my assumption that its in the UK on nothing more than a hunch that the people involved in its construction bef...

SKB wrote:It's somewhere sunny. It's solar powered afterall.

It's flying in Arizonoa. Future flights will be in Australia.

Not sure where the production facility is, I think its more omission rather than design, I think its in the UK.

The Contractors may be will to renegotiate but it will cost us even if the new requirements was not foreseen when the PFI was let or that the Voyager is unsuitable for the role of Helicopter AAR. Easy solution to that if Airtanker plays up saying they're responsible for all AAR....task them to refu...

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/farnborough-airbus-details-maritime-patrol-plans-fo-450258/ I don't doubt it, but I've been reading about prospective A320 MPA/Multi mission aircraft from Airbus for nigh on 20 years now. They just never seem to materialise. If ti does turn up a huge chunk...