The fact that KSA got eurofighter approval for being buddy buddy with Israel makes me increasingly think that this was a slight to us. Basically teasing us and its even less likely for us to get eurofighters now, as the production lines will have more orders too our 40 won't make a difference now.
Everyone is talking about such long period for TF2000, i'm a bit surprised. If the shipbuilding starts later this year or early next year, at least the hull should take shape in a couple years, even if the actual delivery takes long, it shouldn't be 2030 until we have a physically built ship...
F35 doesn't even have a useable cannon so ( B and C don't have ir and A has defective cannon) so obviously F16 is gonna be the better dogfighter. But it really doesn't mean anything in practice when you get shot down from 100km.
I wonder if this is prep for also agreeing to sell to Turkey or it's to tell everyone look we authorized one of them it should be enough kinda thing that makes it even more unlikely for us.
How are you gonna effectively use a system you aren't continuously training on, maintaining and testing? How are you gonna know its effectiveness without using it on drills?
You might notice in media and twitter they try to misrepresent issue in many ways, including these ships are UK and UK is not belligerent( ships are already commissioned by Ukraine), calling them non warships (they are armed with 30mm cannons and other weapons and they are in navy inventory, how...
We should be aware of increasing concentrated effort to attack and try to degilitimize Montreux Convention over the minehunter donation by UK. I don't know if it's related to SSIK decisions on increasing the budget for Navy expansion and modernization. I'm almost certain it will be used as a...
And how did that work for us so far?
That's not how planning should work. We should think all aspects ahead of time. It has cost us many things, and may cost us a defeat
On related news I see a lot of people on twitter talk about increasing and perhaps imminent risk of fait accompli by greece on 12 miles issue backed by US and its really wrecking my nerves
You are being sentimental. You need to be cold blooded and rational. The orders we get thanks to these partnerships and the manufacturing capabilities we achieved through this is enabling our current projects. If we acted harsh and acted in that manner it would significantly hit the ability of...
Here we see the difference between Navy and Air Force. Navy invested heavily on indigenous platforms and subcontractors and even suffered things like Balyoz for it but they kept planning long term detailed and focused on independence and their own technical officers. Now all they needed was...
Let's clarify one thing, US is basically the only nation that has a carrier fleet that's basically designed to fight near peer adversaries, and maybe China will get there. Otherwise the force projection other countries use are against much weaker countries with little to no air power or defenses...
We also more ZAHA(Not Wilfried).
W.r.t carrier need, again, we don't need this carrier for defending our borders, but the geopolitical situation in the next 10 years or so will make this even more necessary I think, asia pacific and africa in general will change drastically. And the carrier...
