“PS- The US does make the best fighter jets. Period.”
Ah, the power of affirmations. I’m pretty sure the BAE guys are pretty slick at engineering, too, and unless you want to tell me they’re somehow genetically less intelligent or something, I’m sure they’d rise to the challenge.
Once again, this smells like a turf war and nothing else. The Saudis are bad guys when they buy Eurofighters, and swell guys when they sign contracts with Boeing or McDonnell-Douglas ?
Bad Saudis, very bad ! : http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003881/posts?page=7#7
Once again, this smells like a turf war and nothing else
no it does not, and is not, but something smells here, thats for sure.
Well - you can be scoff at his comments - but he is correct. The F22 is in a class by itself - there is nothing in the world right now that can touch it (or see it!)
You did hear that we’ve retired the F117?? Well - the F22 can do everything it could do better in the bomber department, and as a fighter -well - here is a clue to one tactic used.
Two F22’s against a squadron of other fighters. The first hangs WAY back - maybe 50-75 miles back. It transmit’s it’s radar picture to the other completely stealthy F22. Both have a full radar picture of the on-coming competition - but the competition can’t see the forward attacker. What do you call that? (I call it not-fair - which is the way I want my country to go to war!)
From the Register article:
All that to one side, today's news at the very least appears to have finally destroyed the concept of "appropriate sovereignty" which underpins the current British Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS). The thinking here is that Blighty will pay increased prices for less-capable military kit made partly in the UK, rather than buying cheaper and better gear from abroad. Equipment such as Eurofighter may cost more and do less, but - so goes the reasoning - at least we won't have to ask the Yanks for tech support all the time.
Except that it turns out we will. So the horrendous extra cost of Eurofighter (and Future Lynx, Type 45, A400M etc etc) looks less and less worthwhile.
What is the technology involved here? Avionics? Engine? Low observable coatings? I don't get the problem with the State Department.