Janes picking up on CoDF recommendstion to acquire air combat and interception aircraft
Thinking about the naming of this capability, would changing the description of the aircraft from 'fighter' to 'interceptor' make it more palatable to the general public? A spade is a spade, but in any evolving defense discussion, using a term such as 'interceptor' might fit in better with an Air Policing model?
LoA 2.5 or 3 and only after LoA2 completed & public brought/informed/cajole onboard.
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Hardware such as nuts, bolts, screws,rivets and all the thousands of other little bits just come from the spares bins that served the other aircraft made by the manufacturer. Only rarely does the manufacturer specify new hardware that has to be certified from scratch. The gun,HUD,computers and weapons are all bought in and matched to the aircraft and , as for hardware, taken from existing stocks or designs unless they get such a significant upgrade that they must be changed. Aircraft manufacturers are quite conservative despite what the brochures claim and they will continue with existing hardware as it saves the cost of retooling.
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Originally posted by GoneToTheCanner View Post
not even the tyres, gun, HUD, undercarriage and thousands of bolts and nuts and rivets and paint?
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Originally posted by Graylion View Post
E/F is a completely new airframe, new engine, the works. C/D and E/F have exactly one part in common - the cockpit canopy.
Saab though have the T-7A contract with partner Boeing which will keep production lines very busy and now the the USAF advanced tactical trainer (basically an armed T-7A going by the released RFI) as well as the new T-7B design for the USN (a very similar RFI to the ATT) have Boeing-Saab right in the fight with the FA-50/T-50A and in my view in the box seat to get over the line in those projects which will at least make up for the lack of traction of the E/F as an acquisition option.
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Originally posted by Graylion View Post
E/F is a completely new airframe, new engine, the works. C/D and E/F have exactly one part in common - the cockpit canopy.
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Originally posted by Anzac View Post
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Originally posted by na grohmiti View Post
Reading some of the commentary (from folk who know a lot more about this sort of thing) in Selecting the F35 Finland also did away with the requirement for a standalone AEWACS platform (or two) such is the ability of its own onboard radar to network and be networked with ground based radar, as well as other aircraft of type.
The standstill period passed, all the other vendors are happy with the decision (which is surprising) which in itself speaks multitudes of their belief in their own platform. At the end of the day it is a Gen 5 aircraft, expected to remain in service till the 2060s. To put that into context, it was competing against aircraft that first flew in the 1980s.
That would be the same as if a frontline air force today was still operating Grumman Hellcats or North American Mustangs.
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Originally posted by ODIN View PostSo....the Finns are going for the F-35, specifically, 64 of them for around €4.3Bn. Enough to keep Vlad and the Russian Airforce in their box? I guess we'll find out, but one thing for sure, they'll be more useful at that job than eight PC-9's doing the job!
The standstill period passed, all the other vendors are happy with the decision (which is surprising) which in itself speaks multitudes of their belief in their own platform. At the end of the day it is a Gen 5 aircraft, expected to remain in service till the 2060s. To put that into context, it was competing against aircraft that first flew in the 1980s.
That would be the same as if a frontline air force today was still operating Grumman Hellcats or North American Mustangs.
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So....the Finns are going for the F-35, specifically, 64 of them for around €4.3Bn. Enough to keep Vlad and the Russian Airforce in their box? I guess we'll find out, but one thing for sure, they'll be more useful at that job than eight PC-9's doing the job!Last edited by ODIN; 24 January 2022, 09:47.
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Originally posted by Anzac View Post
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Originally posted by na grohmiti View Post
By the sound of things, it makes their C/D comparable to E/F in terms of potential armaments, thus further extending their service life (Now that Hungary has chosen to Buy them outright).
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Originally posted by Graylion View Post
Yup, and that allows them to use Meteor and Iris-T
https://www.overtdefense.com/2021/12...ation-program/
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