The project was canceled. However the X-45 was a tech demonstrator like the Neuron. After completion of Neuron would we say the project was canceled. It's different if it was meant for service and then was canceled. But if it was meant to be a tech demo since the beginning, then I don't see the point of disputing it.
Boeing was trying to win the J-UCAS contract and lost, so it was cancelled. NEURON is the sole beneficiary of a six nation consortium and is the final step to a production version, same as the X-47B that won J-UCAS. Unless Europe and USA don't plan on having stealth UCAVs, they will finish.
Ok. But it would only mean Taranis would have greater chances flying first.
OK, but how much faith do you put into a project that has failed to get airbourne three times going on four?
Just had to look at the 1st second of the video and recognized it as the existent Triomphant class.
The difference between Le Terrible and the existant Triomphant is as big as the difference between the Los Angeles is to the Virginia. All SNLEs are being upgraded to Terrible standard. It isa generational difference.
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The Triomphant class is in the same league as the Delta IV, except for newer noise reduction technology as it is newer. Bulava is in a league of it's own, can't compare to any other missile in service.
The Triomphant class is upgrading to Terrible standard which is the most advanced SSBN in the water. It is the same technologies going on Barracuda. M51 is an easy contender to the Bulava and has a much better track record, ie perfect.
I thought you were talking about this. Ah! The 400 nation consortium. Now you will say France owns EADS and completely reject the notion that first flight happened in Spain and has American engines.
France does own EADS, its CEO is French and Airbus HQ. We also have first operational order and largest workshare. Who can claim more? The engines don't have a thing to do with America.
New transport is in the design stage for medium lift capability. As for heavy lift, the IL-76 surpasses the A-400M. The Russians have plenty of the IL-76 and many of them are young.
MTA is frozen and Russia is looking at the cargo version of An-148 to fill that role. As for the Il-76 the plant in Tashkent is in shambles and the new line they are trying to start is going nowhere. They just released the first prototype upgrade of Il-76 to Il-476 , much less being able to produce it. None of VVS Il-76s are young, they haven't been produced since the 1997 and none have been delivered to VVS since 1987.
The Russians are going for a whole new program, not just a new tank. Modernization of the Leclerc does not compare to a UCP program.
It doesn't compare to Leclerc because Leclerc is the tank they wish they had.
Gee the economics of scale will go in your favour for obvious reasons. If India managed to equip only 22000 soldiers for the F-INSAS, then it would be a major failure. Like I said this is an ongoing project everywhere. The size and length of your project does not indicate how advanced it is compared to other programs. The recently concluded exercise in India was meant to validate similar systems and soldiers are expected to be operationally deployed this year as part of Phase I of the project. 60000 soldiers were deployed in the exercise.
Gee, the fact that France is the ONLY nation with a mass production FSS and the world benchmark for a number of nations trying to mimic must not mean anything to you. Russia copying the total concept with Thales supplying the same networking used in FELIN says something to the rest of the world. Those 31,500 kits are enough to cover all oversea troops in the Armee de terre. There is about as much faith in F-INSAS is as there are in DRDO getting anything done besides insect nets and bug repellent.
I wouldn't be so blind if I was using Russian launching facilities for launching Galileo satellites. People will think France does not have the capacity to launch heavy satellites.
We aren't using Russian launching facilities, we are using French launching facilities with French safety checks which is why we don't have Russian rockets losing our payloads. It is a low-end rocket for light payloads, something we don't want to waste money developing. It doesn't replace the A5 used for higher payload requirements. Now lets not get started on the GSLV failures...
Wow. This is stuff from the 80s. Micro - Macro, does it matter when they are low orbit ELINT satellites. It is so ancient.
It is 21st century stuff... sorry you don't keep up with space events. You know Apollo didn't happen last year?
Haha! Then let's make such fantastic claims after we see Neuron in the air shall we?
No need to wait, this is DGA we are talking about. No testing agency keeps better time schedules. British Parliament is studying how to do it like us.
The 8 ton engine on X-47B is only for the demonstrator model just like Neuron's 4 ton engine. Neuron will be upgraded with a 8 ton engine much later.
So what engine is going on the final production? We already know what is going on ours.
It would be funny if we managed to induct a superior aircraft to the Neuron, not...
It would be funny if you ever induct anything, it seems as if everything is on permanent hold.
