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Happy New year all... That's an impressive flyaway cost .. even at 82-83 . It's the maintenance and operational cost which will be the main headache though. Again engine is the most crucial component of a fifth gen for now and cost is appropriate for it. Even Older gen engine are as expensive.

Happy New year all... That's an impressive flyaway cost .. even at 82-83 . It's the maintenance and operational cost which will be the main headache though. Again engine is the most crucial component of a fifth gen for now and cost is appropriate for it. Even Older gen engine are as expensive.

F-35 B is most problematic of all facing most issues despite low numbers in comparison to F-35 A.

Add high cost due to lower number in comparison to USA. That's the real reason many avoid French products. Offcourse political influence is another. The only way to keep cost down and keep the war machine factories operational is having multiple partners like Germany etc coming together.

What's wrong with having Meteor at your disposal ? NEZ is more in comparison to other missiles so are chances of hitting the target. But it doesn't mean the fighter jet which carries it won't find itself in a situation where enemy fighter jet is in close proximity. That's why MICA IR/RF...

You may expect BVR combat all the time but that's not how things will play out .

It can't supercruise... Will have high heat signature using afterburner. Isn't manuverable like raptor. That's not silly argument.

I know that's what I said to him... You probably didn't understand the context.

You said France .... The news mention Germany is interested. To be honest Germany should have instead put money on Typhoon renewal and bringing it's availability rate high first. F-35 is a technological Marvel but they have overdid it and should have gone the twin engine sleeker route like...

French have guts to stand up against them.. hopefully they don't back out now. And Irony is Erdogan said Muslims are being lynched like Jews were... Although it was a French school teacher/prof. Samuel patty who was beheaded by Muslim in the most gruesome way possible. They are zombie on a...

Not a single dead French but can't confirm bcz you never know what happened but there houses have been attacked. Around 200 is the casuality in Pakistan may be more now. Many army and police personnels have resigned in favor of protesters against France. Your embassy will be shut down...

They have a project going on for 6th gen aircraft with Germany. It might be possible that UK join them later and Merge their projects.

Algeria... French should have divided that country instead of running away.

I am not sure about the source but there are lot of equipments that goes alongwith. But it's surprising while you are ready to take figures from this source while official known sources which quoted the revised price just under 80mn for a F-35 A doesn't ring any bell. 🙂

There is no need of source ME block have been asking for F-35 for long but they are offered only the teen series or Typhoon and Rafale from Europe .

The intitial batch was 132 mn dollar + the price dropped later in series production for F-35 A.

Dude even if stealthy jet will be identified at 100 km + say in next 10 yrs or so then the 4th gen jets will be identified much before at a much bigger range. Here again advantage will be with stealthy jets as they will be able to identify and fire 150-200 km range bvr much before they are...

French used to criticize even F-16 and termed Mirage 2k way better but eventually it turned out F-16 is still in production and have turned out to be a much better jet economically and in capabilities. Their respective replacement Rafale for French Mirage and F-35 for American F-16 will see the...

The RCS of Su 57 won't increase like it will increase for a weaponized Rafale which will cross 1 sq m . The second table is giving clean RCS i think IAF had issues with stealth of Su 57 too. That's why a stealthy derivative FGFA was proposed along with good amount of workshare for India...

I know for Rafale we did paid a lot for many of the stuff that come inbuilt and are better with F 35. It will be definitely a good system for american allies to replace their ageing platforms. What is the cost of operation though ? :) And maintenance availability rate ? I doubt F 35 will...