I'm in line: they will buy planes/ spares now from OZ. Then perhaps do the same from the SwissSD67 wrote:Superhornet for Canada based mainly on cost (though you can never rule out the Canucks just pushing the whole thing to the right again)
... and if the Swiss delay again and update not just the engines, but also the mission computers ( like the USMC is doing) - with the one from SH.
Then they will buy those planes off the Swiss hands; when the latter finally make a 'move'. Many plebiscites later
What's that?SD67 wrote:BAEs in country industrial footprint tips the balance.
Doubt it as Typhoon is lacking (relative to the others in the race) in offensive counter-air.SD67 wrote: A surprise win for Typhoon in Finland. F35 rules itself out on operating cost, so they go for the best air defence option
Scramble-ready was a 'modern' proverb, referring to the maintenance intensity more generally (including skin care for the more delicate designs )Timmymagic wrote:thats not an issue as most bases will easily have enough HAS and Hangarage for the available fleet.
Is that the same as TBM (Theatre Ballistic)?NickC wrote:ntermediate RBM
- if so, we also need an added new (small) letter to indicate those types that are only ballistic to the apogee of the flight path, and then start to manoeuvre so as to make calculations for their interception more difficult
As for HAS and protected hangarage, not really.NickC wrote:Sweden seems to be the exception that bought Patriot in 2018 for ~$3 billion with the latest PAC 3 MSE missiles
- they had already made the selection, and then counted their money (with a better specced shopping list)
- the number of batteries went down by 25% ( from 4 to 3), so
- that covers Stockholm, Gotland and the AF central command centre (only)