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Navy loves a longer range bomb truck, and induction and actually getting F-35 as main plane in USN will easily take a decade.

That precisely what I thought your knowledge was limited to, bird brain does apply to you in most sense

http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=232 Try to see if this article makes sense ..

Can you understand designs? If yu can then does look very obvious.. right from Mirage III as a template to Rafale its just development of one template.

It is opinion of many.. including Dasault.

F/A-18 E/F is evolution of F/A-18 A/B very similar to how Rafale is evolution of Mirage III to Mirage 2000 to rejected Mirage 4000 to Rafale.. just the same template.. and why not Dassault felt that if that one template works, why not use it till a century. After all Mirage 2000 is related...

What was sold to Australia is export customer. and well Australia has received all those How many exactly have Dassault delivered yet? I mean produced and delivered? Look the total production of F/A-18 F/A-18 A B C D versions 1480 units F/A-18 E/F.. 500 inits, Thats almost close to 2000...

India has now habit of getting products modded and which has buyers. Take example of Su-30 MKI, do you know its origins? IAF wanted a twin engine plane, and Su-27 had no twin seat (Tandem seat) Su-27, the only one was trainer. So IAF used the Su-27 trainer as the base and then suggested all the...

SH-18 is a good plane importantly, it gets the job done, Prime plane of US Navy and Marines and they are still upgrading it to be better F-35, we are not even thinking about it F-16, yes pakistan uses it, and if we produce it, then we can always stop supplying parts to pakistan when we want...

@BON PLAN When India wants to buy something, this is how fast they move, should give you hint about Rafale.

Do you actually see your own hippocracy? AMRAAM is 1990s missile yet, but the model that you are talking is AIM-120A which is no longer in use. Present production is AIM-120D, MICA tech is not very modern either. Incidentally Rafale was designed in Mid 80s so technically it is 80s tech,, so 90s...

Thats the proble.. ask and pay. The problem about asking is that, if the user has purchased the plane, I doubt the French will integrate any new weapon, and definitely it wont be cheap. If the user has not ordered it, the French will try and convince the user in many ways as possible that the...

AMRAAM.. present missile, in production, inducted, purchased, used, PROVEN Meteor.. future, still not induced for Rafale, not proven.

OPTIONS MY DEAR , OPTIONS, What options does the user have for Rafale? ONLY FRENCH WEAPONS... With SH at least the user has MORE OPTIONS.

LOL seems the French are really scared of American products that you start to target both F/A-18 and F-35 as flying bricks. But then French do not have the technology to make bricks fly. The Americans do, Just to compare F/A-18 with your Rafae F/A-18 has more weapons available for it and also...

SH is a good choice depending on price and package, Several reasons, In terms of commonality, we are already interested in F-414 engine for Tejas and AMCA (we have purchased few already) so having SH-18 helps that cause specially for MAKE IN INDIA initiative SH has better avionics and mature EW...

You did not read or you did not understand? At least now we are sure that the twin engine plane that could be made in India is NOT EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON, Thus that takes out two choices. Eurofighter and Rafale, that would leave F/A-18, MiG-35, Su-35 and PAKFA as the choices left. This process of...

At least now we are sure that the twin engine plane that could be made in India is NOT EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON, Thus that takes out two choices. Eurofighter and Rafale, that would leave F/A-18, MiG-35, Su-35 and PAKFA as the choices left. This process of elimination is proving very useful

As i said its the romanticism involved of dogfighting, which in a way is like sword fighting with planes. If two pilots want to dogfight, give them sabres and a field and let them fight, without a plane, and get their dog fights over with. Those who talk of dog fighting as important are really...

I do understand the romance associated with dog fighting and showing your skills, But when you have the ability to be a sniper (shoot down a target from 100 kms away without the target fully knowing who you are) then what is the urge to get into a knife fight (be down and personal and get into...