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To: sukhoi-30mki
[Art.] Even F-18s would tend to show the Eurofighter and in some circumstances the Tornado in a bad light as strike planes.

Tornados, maybe, at a stretch -- the Tornado's contemporary or only slightly newer (70's design vs. 60's design for the F/A-18, ex-YF-17). But the Eurofighter Typhoon? I seriously doubt it -- the Eurofighter is a late-90's design with a radar cross section like a basketball's.

And yes, that's as an air-to-mud airplane. Eurofighters can carry a wide variety of air-to-mud ordnance. How they are on antishipping weapons, I don't know. There are so many NATO weapons -- Penguins, Kormorans, Exocets, Harpoons, several others. No telling how many the Typhoon has had trials with. Can anyone shed light here?


9 posted on 08/18/2010 2:34:49 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus

and the expensive developement needed to make the Typhoon a naval plane would be payed largerly to BAE - improving the chances to export these to india etc...

If you want to get something done ... do it yourself.


10 posted on 08/24/2010 2:58:22 AM PDT by Rummenigge (there are people willing to blow out the light because it casts a shadow)
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