Posted on 10/13/2010 9:52:45 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Britain's Royal Air Force is sending its best pilots and a squadron of its latest Eurofighter Typhoon jets into war games in India, shortly before the emerging economy decides whether to buy the Eurofighter or one of four rival planes.
The 17-day aerial war games, due to start next week in West Bengal, pit the Eurofighter jets against Sukhoi Su-30 multi-role combat jets of the Indian air force.
The last war games ended in a bitter "defeat" for Britain after it had sent its aging Tornado jets into air combat with the sleek and mobile Sukhoi models.
This time, it's going to be a much harder contest for the Russian-made jets. Twenty years younger than the Tornado, the Eurofighter, a twin-engine, canard-delta wing multirole aircraft, is a much more capable jet.
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Ping.
Not me, I'm quoting some other guy.
/johnny
When did the Su-30s beat the Tornadoes? At the RAF Waddington exercises? Is there an article on this somewhere?
It supposedly happened during the ‘Indradhanush’ exercise in Gwalior in 2006. Not really a big deal considering that the Tornado is not the most agile bird in the sky.
Yup - Stalin.
However, If you make quality, you can make quality in quantity and really screw up his perspective.
You can have high speed/kinematics, or advanced technology, or low costs ...however you can only pick two. Also, you can have high quality, large quantity, high cost, high rate of failure/unavailability - you have to choose three.
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