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Quote: Originally Posted by ATFS_Crash Obviously there is an Aurora. We are spying on the Canadians. The Aurora is being used to monitor WMD development by the evil Canadians. The Aurora is necessary because of their closed secretive society and their hostilities of the US and advanced defense systems against a US invasion....

Folks, Can we have a thread about what locations future air wars may be fought. The aircrafts involved,tactics,results etc. Lets discuss this upto 20 yrs into the future. No flaming folks.

I realize that its just an internet message board, and it is a lot of fun to research the various aspects that go into fighter/tactical performance. But aren't a lot of the arguments being made kind of ridiculous? Some of the claims in recent threads have strained credulity. To my mind the key factors affecting the true performance in a war not just technical capability of the airplane, ...

I just found this article. This topic has been discussed before but it´s an interesting read. Is it just politics or could it be a serious consideration? Could the E2K be adopted to carrier operation as they claim in the article? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4837746. ece

in your opinion what errors did PAF high command make in procuring jet fighters for me 1-supermarine attacker ! worthless straight wing plane 2- Not buying Mirage F-1 when hopes for getting F-16 evaporated in late 80s it not as good as 2000, but cheaper and definately a match for GCI-less mig-29 of IAF 3-not setting up a mirage building factory in late 60s in ...

Forgive me if this is in the wrong forum, but... From my understanding, the primary carrier-borne anti-shipping duties of the USN was in the form of harpoons off of FA-18Cs during the 80s and 90s. This is to be presumably carried on by FA-18Es and F-35s of the next generation. But what about the previous generation? During the time of the ol' F-4 phantom in USN service? What plane was ...

I believe the 17F SEMs have now returned home. Does anyone have any more on this, or indeed any opinions on why they might have been deployed in the first place - have read some pretty harsh comments on a certain French blog about the wisdom of this. Have AFM written anything on their Afghan deployment ? Thanks

Please continue the talk about the Rafale in this thread, since SOC was mean enough to lock the old one Link to Rafale news II: http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t= 72432 Link to Rafale news: http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t= 68250 Nic

Reading other postings on here and it seems as if the Eurofighter seems to be losing an increasing number of competitions for sale to several other nations. Several reasons are given but could the Eurofighter flop as a major export model due to competition from Rissia, America and even other European nations?

... In the coming phase of the selection process, evaluations will concentrate on the following aircraft that have been short-listed (in alphabetical order): Boeing (F-18E/F Super Hornet), Dassault Aviation (Rafale) and Saab (Gripen NG). The 36 aircraft that make up the first batch must be delivered from 2014, and must have a useful operational life of at least 30 years. Thus, over the ...

I just found this article. This topic has been discussed before but it´s an interesting read. Is it just politics or could it be a serious consideration? Could the E2K be adopted to carrier operation as they claim in the article? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4837746. ece

Reading other postings on here and it seems as if the Eurofighter seems to be losing an increasing number of competitions for sale to several other nations. Several reasons are given but could the Eurofighter flop as a major export model due to competition from Rissia, America and even other European nations?

Folks, Can we have a thread about what locations future air wars may be fought. The aircrafts involved,tactics,results etc. Lets discuss this upto 20 yrs into the future. No flaming folks.

Quote: Originally Posted by Bager1968 OOOHHH!!! They cut 2 aircraft!!! What a blow to the 1,000+ aircraft program!!! Cut from 16 to 14 aircraft on a (arguably flawed) 'rolling' test programme only 3-4% complete- is a hammer blow. Try to engage brain before rolling of the eyes. Quote:...

... In the coming phase of the selection process, evaluations will concentrate on the following aircraft that have been short-listed (in alphabetical order): Boeing (F-18E/F Super Hornet), Dassault Aviation (Rafale) and Saab (Gripen NG). The 36 aircraft that make up the first batch must be delivered from 2014, and must have a useful operational life of at least 30 years. Thus, over the ...

Quote: Originally Posted by wrightwing The thing to remember though is that the F-22 is already in production, and additional airframes beyond the current buy, would have a much lower per unit cost. http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cf...dcn=todaysn ews Quote: Negotiators agree ...

Nice one, what's the source?

Google on-line Translate Text from Russian Lang. Quote: In Zhukovsky a presentation multirole fighter Su-35 MOSCOW, July 7. (ITAR-TASS). Russian multirole Su-35 fighter completed the first stage of flight testing. As reported in OAO Aviation Holding Company "Sukhoi", 7 July in Moscow Zhukovsky was presented to representatives of the military machine ...

Forgive me if this is in the wrong forum, but... From my understanding, the primary carrier-borne anti-shipping duties of the USN was in the form of harpoons off of FA-18Cs during the 80s and 90s. This is to be presumably carried on by FA-18Es and F-35s of the next generation. But what about the previous generation? During the time of the ol' F-4 phantom in USN service? What plane was ...

With the two-year delay in the first test flight of the A400 engine and other delays with the airframe, the RAF is facing a transport shortfall. Here's a link to a story in the new Aviation Week ... http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/gener...hannel=defe nse