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  1. Super Flanker

    Indian Navy more likely to select F 18 than rafales

    Well I am talking about the current M-88 engine which generates both less dry thrust and afterburner thrust than the GE-414. I am not sure about an "upgraded" M-88. Will have to check on that.
  2. Super Flanker

    Indian Navy more likely to select F 18 than rafales

    Here you claimed that the Rafale's engines are more powerful than the F-18's engines after which I corrected you.
  3. Super Flanker

    Indian Navy more likely to select F 18 than rafales

    Canards and Levcons are good for low speed performance. Levcons have an advantage over canards as Levcons produce less drag as compared to canards. Another advantage of Levcons is that they produce a lower radar cross in comparison to traditional canards. Canards provide better manouverability...
  4. Super Flanker

    Indian Navy more likely to select F 18 than rafales

    What I had said was that F/A18 has more powerful engines then the Rafale. You said in your above post that Rafale's engines are more powerful, I later corrected you by showing you how the F-18's GE-414 engine is more powerful than the Rafale's M-88 engine.
  5. Super Flanker

    Indian Navy more likely to select F 18 than rafales

    The Rafale is a canard-delta wing design whereas the F/A-18 is a trapezoidal wing design. In aerodynamics, all wing designs, be them swept wing, Delta wing or Trapezoidal wing and etc have their pros and cons. Some designs may give better performance at transonic speed, some may give better...
  6. Super Flanker

    Indian Navy more likely to select F 18 than rafales

    If those people on twitter are saying that GE-414 is more powerful than M-88 then they are right, the GE-414 engine used in the F/A-18 is superior to the M-88 used in the Rafale as GE-414 can generate more dry thrust and afterburner thrust than M-88.
  7. Super Flanker

    Indian Navy more likely to select F 18 than rafales

    Rafale uses two Snecma M-88 engines, each M-88 is capable of producing 50 kN of dry thrust and 75 kN thrust with afterburners. On the other hand, the F/A-18 uses two General Electric F-414 engines, each F-414 is capable of producing 57.8 kN of dry thrust and 98 kN thrust with afterburners. So...
  8. Super Flanker

    Indian Navy more likely to select F 18 than rafales

    Pakistan had terms and conditions imposed on its F-16s because AFAIK those F-16s Were bought in the form of a Military aid and also US needed Pak to fight Soviets during that time as well. If we Buy F-16/F-15/F-18 with full money than maybe US will not impose such conditions on us. But I am not...
  9. Super Flanker

    Indian Navy more likely to select F 18 than rafales

    Than tell me one thing! If Pakistan didn't had any terms and conditions imposed on the usage of F-16s than why did they lie about not using F-16s on 27th February? If Pakistan had no terms and conditions imposed on its usage of F-16s than it would have never lied about using F-16 and do you...
  10. Super Flanker

    Indian Navy more likely to select F 18 than rafales

    Pakistan had 1st purchased F-16s from US in 1981, ordering 40 fighters. And when I searched on the internet the reason for this than I get mostly the following : 1. The F-16s were given in the form of aid to Pak so that they would aid US in Fighting in Afghanistan. 2. To fight Soviets. Keep in...
  11. Super Flanker

    Indian Navy more likely to select F 18 than rafales

    Go on the internet and check, you will get such Examples. It's a well known fact that US Weopons like fighters etc always come with Terms and conditions of some kind. 1 example is Pakistan, Pakistan has F-16 in it's Airforce's inventory and these F-16s are not allowed by the US to be used in an...
  12. Super Flanker

    Indian Navy more likely to select F 18 than rafales

    Why just 5-6 Growlers only? We could buy a whole squadron of these for the Indian Airforce. Such EW assets would be very useful against PAF and PLAAF.
  13. Super Flanker

    Indian Navy more likely to select F 18 than rafales

    FA-18 is Superior to the Rafale-M and far better than it. Here see what @Wisemarko had written, I will Copypaste it here for you. Three significant advantages of F-18E/F block III 1. GaN based AN/APG-79 radar with unmatched performance. (More peak power, more TRM, newer generation than RBE-AA)...
  14. Super Flanker

    Indian Navy more likely to select F 18 than rafales

    If we in the end acquire FA-18 SH from US than we should also try and see if the US will provide us with the EW Variant of FA-18 Known as ."Growler". Here is some official INFO about it from Boeing : The EA-18G Growler aircraft is an advanced version of the F/A-18F Super Hornet. Credit...
  15. Super Flanker

    Indian Navy more likely to select F 18 than rafales

    How many Carrier based planes is the Indian Navy planning on acquiring? 18? 36?
  16. Super Flanker

    Indian Navy more likely to select F 18 than rafales

    I am all in for Indian Navy buying the FA-18 Super Hornet over the Rafale-M but the one and only hurdle which comes with purchase of American equipment especially fighters is that US/Uncle Sam imposes a lot of terms and conditions which limits the use of these planes. If India is going to...
  17. Super Flanker

    Indian Navy more likely to select F 18 than rafales

    US will not give an aircraft carrier to us and neither do we want to purchase/acquire any sort of Aircraft Carrier from US, we can design, develop and construct our own Aircraft Carriers. If in the near future we want to build our own Nuclear Powered Aircraft carrier with EMALS than we will at...
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