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18th June 2013, 19:10

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Eurofighter Typhoon News and Updates in Modern Military Aviation

The situation with the AESA is that industry funds the initial demonstrators and development. When the nations finally commit they can continue with...

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18th June 2013, 18:57

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Eurofighter Typhoon News and Updates in Modern Military Aviation

It is, but these days much is done with initial funding only, before the customers fully commit to secure the funds for full development.

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16th June 2013, 14:53

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Eurofighter Typhoon News and Updates in Modern Military Aviation

E-SCAN simply means electronic scanning, which is the same as phased array or ESA (Electronically Scanned Array). Add a P for passive or an A for...

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15th June 2013, 09:30

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Dassault Rafale, News & Discussion (XV) in Modern Military Aviation

Just discovered that Dassault has finally released issue 17 of its FoxThree magazine. ...

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15th June 2013, 09:25

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Saudi F-15C - Peace Sun VI in Modern Military Aviation

Because the F-15 has already plenty of thrust with its available engines. The F100-PW-232 or the F110-GE-132 would have to be qualified in actual...

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14th June 2013, 12:50

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Eurofighter Typhoon News and Updates in Modern Military Aviation

It is, yes.

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11th June 2013, 19:11

Scorpion82 replied to a thread PAK-FA thread about information, pics, debate ⅩⅩⅢ in Modern Military Aviation

A huge bay would increase drag considerably if opened and the loads it would have to bear are enormous. The loads on the door attachment points and...

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9th June 2013, 15:57

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Amazing weapons loads Eurofighter Typhoon in Modern Military Aviation

BL755 yes. All those images of DA2 & 7 with various loadouts were taken around 2000-2002. CRV7 rocket pods and BL755 cluster bombs have been deleted...

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7th June 2013, 19:23

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Amazing weapons loads Eurofighter Typhoon in Modern Military Aviation

Yes again DA7, the aircraft has been photographed with lots of weapons around 2000/2001. there are also a couple of shots of DA2 with diverse...

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7th June 2013, 18:46

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Amazing weapons loads Eurofighter Typhoon in Modern Military Aviation

Those are from Flight 1435. It's maybe noteworthy that it's a life AMRAAM round. Indeed a nice shot!

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6th June 2013, 20:58

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Amazing weapons loads Eurofighter Typhoon in Modern Military Aviation

DA7 somewhere around the timeframe mentioned by EEL. @PhantomII This shot is from 2008 showing IPA2 in support of the Meteor development...

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5th June 2013, 17:29

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Eurofighter Typhoon News and Updates in Modern Military Aviation

To add some clarification: Radar 1 is the initial base which will evolve hardware and software wise and is being offered for export customers and...

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4th June 2013, 16:16

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Eurofighter Typhoon News and Updates in Modern Military Aviation

@EEL The RAF intends to become fully operational with P1EB in 2015 that's why they want to accelerate the induction. Factually seen P1EB is late,...

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3rd June 2013, 17:46

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Eurofighter Typhoon News and Updates in Modern Military Aviation

According JDW the RAF expects the RTS certificate for P1EA in September. The same month an aircraft currently used for testing of P1EB will be made...

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2nd June 2013, 21:10

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Dassault Rafale, News & Discussion (XV) in Modern Military Aviation

Indeed nice footage! It's always a pleasure to see this beauty flying.

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2nd June 2013, 18:04

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Eurofighter Typhoon News and Updates in Modern Military Aviation

That lies in the nature of researching subjects that are many years, not to say decades old. Dunno what this has to do with disinformation as the...

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2nd June 2013, 16:04

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Eurofighter Typhoon News and Updates in Modern Military Aviation

@F-18Growler Please drop the debate, it won't help making that thread better! @Aereo It's possible that they used the term EFA because it was...

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2nd June 2013, 10:37

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Eurofighter Typhoon News and Updates in Modern Military Aviation

Good contribution Jwcook. It might be noteworthy that there are at least three production variants of the EJ200 MK101. The EIS version fitted to...

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1st June 2013, 21:29

Scorpion82 replied to a thread RuAF News and Development Thread part 12 in Modern Military Aviation

Trident SOAR is the missile warner;)

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1st June 2013, 20:22

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Your Favorite Hornet/Super Hornet pics. in Modern Military Aviation

It will be Fox 3 as well. A Sky Flash or Aspide were Fox 1 as well. It is about the guidance in use. IRIS-T or ASRAAM are also Fox 2. It's merely a...

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1st June 2013, 20:14

Scorpion82 replied to a thread RuAF News and Development Thread part 12 in Modern Military Aviation

The original MiG-35 stems from the 1990s and proposed with an enlarged fuselage, 6 t of fuel, canards, 10 t class TVC engines, wingtip launch rails,...

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1st June 2013, 17:29

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Your Favorite Hornet/Super Hornet pics. in Modern Military Aviation

Fox 1 = SAHR Fox 2 = IR Fox 3 = AHR It's not related to a specific missile variant. The AIM-54 Phoenix was an active radar guided missile and...

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1st June 2013, 15:58

Scorpion82 replied to a thread RuAF News and Development Thread part 12 in Modern Military Aviation

There are also some images with pods beneath the engine ducts. Looks like there is a smaller one on the left side as well. Is the model of the pod...

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1st June 2013, 13:51

Scorpion82 replied to a thread Eurofighter Typhoon News and Updates in Modern Military Aviation

A proposal to the UAE has been requested and is in the works. It's not just talking. With a proposal being made the interest appears to be serious....

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31st May 2013, 19:10

Scorpion82 replied to a thread F-35 Debate thread (2) in Modern Military Aviation

Were B-2s deployed in 2003? The threat to air assets in 2003 was considerably smaller than that in 1991.

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31st May 2013, 18:31

Scorpion82 replied to a thread F-35 Debate thread (2) in Modern Military Aviation

Argueably the B-2 wasn't operational in 1991, albeit substracts nothing from the argument. VLO undeniably offers tactical advantages especially if...

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