Warbirds Thread
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F-15's are not built from the ground up to operate from highway's and county roads; Gripen's are.
The only real issue with Gripen's that is a con is the smaller supply and logistics chain throughput Sweden is capable of for manufacturing and supporting the planes.
Aldarion
Neoreactionary Monarchist
Not if it gets bombed on the ground before it can take off, or if it cannot take off because airfields got destroyed.
F-15 is a fighter designed by and for a superpower that can rely on safe air bases and expects to have air superiority if not air supremacy guaranteed.
Gripen is a fighter designed by and for a middling country facing a superpower which has enough aircraft and missiles to shut down any attempt at conventional air superiority and wipe out any obvious air fields / air bases.
It is clear which would be better for Poland.
A high-low F-35/Gripen mix would be amazingly deadly. F-15EX's would be flying SAM sites sitting behind the lines using data links to lob AMRAAM's into the fight.
German Albatros L 72 looking sleek and sexy for a flthy biplane.
Only four of these newspaper bombers were built.
Only four of these newspaper bombers were built.
Well,it was obvious when USA retired Blackbird.They must have sometching to replace it.
I hope for KF21,Korea would not fuck with deliver if we refuse to gave our children to pedo.Sleepy Joe could.
P.S And Gripens would be still better.
Don't be ridiculous. The KF-21 is a "built to look cool" joke of a project that has all the design tradeoffs and expense of a stealth aircraft without actually being stealthy. Even South Korea itself has no confidence in the program, which is why they've bought F-35s for themselves.
Then we should buy Gripens.Poland need planes from state which do not stop delivering them for lgbt reasons.
PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
Gripens use American engines that are produced under licence, one of the conditions for licence is that USA can veto any sale.
Aldarion
Neoreactionary Monarchist
France is then the best option. As Kekec said:
Typhoon has Germany in it so not a good choice either.
Yes and no. The Volvo RM12 turbofan is a significantly improved derivative of the General Electric F404 rather than a license copy; it's the combat avionics which make heavy use of directly licensed American technology.
paulobrito
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But, if only a line of code or a single screw is American, ITAR rules apply...
Agent23
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What is an ITAR?
In some related news, How the U.S. Air Force Deployed Kubernetes and Istio on an F-16 in 45 days
That is not where I thought I'd see that.
And I also thought that most of that thing's code was a boomer-written Ada monolith.
paulobrito
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International Traffic in Arms Regulations - Wikipedia
Agent23
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Yeah, sure, only your MIC makes stuff massively overpriced and over-budget.
Taiwan's AH-64E Apache Guardians reportedly look pretty cool. They apparently went with a tigershark inspired pattern for at least two of the birds.
Lewd pictures and plenty of verbiage within the article.
www.thedrive.com
Lewd pictures and plenty of verbiage within the article.
Taiwan's AH-64s Are The World’s Most Sinister-Looking Apaches
At least two of Taiwan’s fleet of AH-64E Apache Guardians have appeared wearing a starting tiger shark-inspired paint scheme.
www.thedrive.com
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