Spitfire makes me proud to be British
that Rafale lookalike just makes me want to cry.
(, Tue 27 Sep 2016, 19:06, Share, Reply)
I'm French Rah Rah Rah Rafale and so on.
Yet, if stupid politicians were not stupid.
France would buy Typhoons as a dedicated interceptor, letting the boffins improve even more the Rafale's attack, deep strike and recon capacities.
England would but Rafales and Sea Rafales as a fighter bomber, letting the boffins improve even more the Typhoons intercept, interdiction and long range AA capacities.
France and England would benefit greatly, only the US would lose out.
(, Tue 27 Sep 2016, 19:12, Share, Reply)
I sort of agree.
Better if France had been part of the team. We could have kicked the useless Italians out.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Tue 27 Sep 2016, 19:18,
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Good user name! You want to buy planes, right?
Fucking Frogs wouldn't buckle down buckle and support the Eurofighter project. Both planes would have been much better if they'd joined the crew and we could have sold a (metric) fucktonne more to the exciting range of dictators and kleptocrats that lined up for Typhoon.
And the unit price would have gone down.
And we wouldn't have got stuck with a stupid BVR intercept fighter which looks like a race horse in a donkey derby in all the current conflict scenarios (except the big bad one)
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Tue 27 Sep 2016, 19:17,
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I wonder if there an insider story of how the thing broke down?
Would make fun reading.
But I still think there was room for two aircraft.
With maybe a lot in common but one optimised for BVR and the other for low level attack.
Kinda Spit/Tempest or P47/P51 combo.
Probably making each much cheaper.
I think the F105/F111/F35 concept of the "Mr Doitallonpaper" is stupid.
(, Tue 27 Sep 2016, 19:25, Share, Reply)
I was a defence correspondent at the time
The answer is fucking intransigent fucks.
All of them. Pissing contest between GEC and SGS-Thompson. And BAe vs Dassault. And any other combination of fuckwitted ;national champion' defence companies you can think of. Usual bollocks. Which is why I would not want a European army protecting my borders. Nightmare.
On the upside, we did start to persuade Germany to become a bit more fighty and bitey.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Tue 27 Sep 2016, 19:30,
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You should write a book about all this
I'd buy it. Especially if written in your usual dry humour.
(, Tue 27 Sep 2016, 19:59, Share, Reply)
Hmm.
I'm not sure if a massive sarcasm missile just millimeter wave radared up my ass. But thanks for the kind words.
I think the bird has flown o that book as most of my best sources were found hanged in hotel cupboards wearing ladies underwear.
Check this: www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread300971/pg4
I persuaded the patent office to show me part of the application Malcolm Puddy had filed just before his suicide. The Puddy Star Derive Mk1 and the Puddy Star Drive Mk2. Sometimes conspiracy theories fueled by trade press hacks turn out to be utter fucking nonsense.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Tue 27 Sep 2016, 22:19,
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I'm not sure history has shown that to be an upside
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 27 Sep 2016, 19:59,
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we could do a logo around it and it would look very taste up in the clouds.
:-)
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Spitfire looks just as agile in turns
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6c3v9iihgw
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Tue 27 Sep 2016, 23:00,
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