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To: sukhoi-30mki

Load of the EF is quite all right - but we don#t need range in europe. I guess they could have AESA if they wanted - but that would be extremely expensive.

Why don’t they grab some balls and start their own air&space programm ?

If the US acts like a girl with their stuff and the euopeans are too expensive - isn’t that kind of an opportunity to team up with BAE or anyone to build something that has extreme range, a monster radar and is a bit more spacy like a stupidhornet ?

A new F-111 ?

Or - hell why not take the Flanker and modify it.

They could go shopping then for the rest like AESA radar, Link hardware and weapons (Meteor and Taurus ;-).


35 posted on 07/20/2007 7:08:54 AM PDT by Rummenigge (there's people willing to blow out the light because it casts a shadow)
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To: Rummenigge

Export customers,esp like Australia or Japan put a premium on longe range-& the Typhoon’s payload would suffer if you fit more fuel tanks.The Typhoon would probably only have conformal tanks after 2010 when the tranche-3 variants come into service.

A tweaked Flanker makes no sense,if you have only used American equipment-it would become as expensive as an F-15.Neither would the Russians or any Western nation allow the other to look at their crown jewels.


36 posted on 07/20/2007 9:38:19 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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