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2006-01-19 Europe

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Posted by lotp 2006-01-19 07:09|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What next? Converted to run on vegetable oil and fire water melons?

Posted by Howard UK 2006-01-19 09:03|| 2006-01-19 09:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Two new aircraft carriers ordered by the Navy are due to carry 36 Typhoons each
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I thought STOL version F-35s were going on board.

Posted by 6 2006-01-19 09:47|| 2006-01-19 09:47|| Front Page Top

#3 UK has threatened to withdraw from the F35. don't know if they've done so as of yet.

Posted by lotp 2006-01-19 10:06|| 2006-01-19 10:06|| Front Page Top

#4 The UK will use the F35. It's a negotiating ploy to get the additional F35 technology, esp. the entire software suite, for the less than 10% share that they paid for.

In addition, Germany wants to cancel the third and last batch of Eurofighters and wants the other participants to agree to waive the cancellation fees, which are almost as expensive as building the planes.

Posted by ed 2006-01-19 10:22|| 2006-01-19 10:22|| Front Page Top

#5 ..Every new aircraft has its share of teething (It could very well be that it was just a bad nose gear strut or oleo) problems and the Typhoon is no exception. It could very well be that it was just a bad nose gear strut or oleoFor example, the F-16 - which I worked on as a brand new bird and as a mature weapon system - had a flaw in the flight control system that killed some pilots before they got a handle on it. The cost of a modern fighter tends to magnify these flaws to a hideous extent - given what Typhoon REALLY costs (official figure is just under 63M Euro or 76.3M USD - I suspect it's closer to 100M Euro), it's likely that spares and repair funds are in VERY short supply and that the damaged bird will be grounded for a very long time, if it ever gets back in the air.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-01-19 11:18|| 2006-01-19 11:18|| Front Page Top

#6 The Airbus has a lot of problems with its nosegear also. Seems to be a Euro weak area.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-01-19 11:32|| 2006-01-19 11:32|| Front Page Top

#7 RAF chiefs insist its agility means it can "out-dogfight" any jet in the world.

Maybe. But the interesting question is how well it performs against a swarm of Unmanned Aerial Combat Vehicles?

Posted by SteveS 2006-01-19 14:31|| 2006-01-19 14:31|| Front Page Top

#8 how well it performs against a swarm of Unmanned Aerial Combat Vehicles?

That will depend on numbers and size. If it's thousands and tiny then the Typhoon is doomed like it's namesake which ran across tiny FW-190's over the channel while covering the Canadians at Diepe.

Posted by 6 2006-01-19 19:57|| 2006-01-19 19:57|| Front Page Top

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