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Debonair · « **Reply #30 on:** July 13, 2006, 03:40:59 AM »

you'll both be happy in your pretty planes right up until the raptor pwns you.
maybe one of your skull fragments will crease it's skin in as it imacts your debris at 1000kts.

AquaShrimp · « **Reply #31 on:** July 13, 2006, 04:05:47 AM »

Shows how much you know. F-22s were beaten by British Typhoons in dogfights. The F-22 missle truck only has the advantage at long range.

LePaul · « **Reply #32 on:** July 13, 2006, 12:17:23 PM »

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Originally posted by AquaShrimp
Shows how much you know. F-22s were beaten by British Typhoons in dogfights. The F-22 missle truck only has the advantage at long range.

Prove it. Id like to read that

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #33 on:** July 13, 2006, 03:02:49 PM »

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Originally posted by AquaShrimp
Shows how much you know. F-22s were beaten by British Typhoons in dogfights. The F-22 missle truck only has the advantage at long range.

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Eurofighter a shooting star in clash with US jets

IT might be over budget and years late but the Eurofighter Typhoon has shown that it can shake off America's best fighter plane and shoot it down.

A chance encounter over the Lake District between a Eurofighter trainer and two F-15 aircraft turned into a mock dogfight, with the British plane coming off best - much to the surprise of some in the RAF. The episode was hushed up for fear of causing US blushes.

source

15E's not 22's

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #34 on:** July 13, 2006, 03:07:41 PM »

Wow, the eurofighter beat a 35 year old plane. Amazing.

Furball · « **Reply #35 on:** July 13, 2006, 03:22:13 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort

Could scrub the union jack off that JSF, British are very close to pulling out over America's refusal to share technology with us.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2005/12/itar-fallout-britain-to-pull-out-of-f35-jsf-program/index.php

LePaul · « **Reply #36 on:** July 13, 2006, 04:21:44 PM »

I guess we havent forgiven em for giving the Russians a "sample" jet engine...which they in turn copied and stuffed into that nimble lil thing called the MiG-15

Nilsen · « **Reply #37 on:** July 13, 2006, 04:27:40 PM »

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Originally posted by Furball
Could scrub the union jack off that JSF, British are very close to pulling out over America's refusal to share technology with us.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2005/12/itar-fallout-britain-to-pull-out-of-f35-jsf-program/index.php

two other countries are also considering doing the same.. for different reasons tho

LePaul · « **Reply #38 on:** July 13, 2006, 04:30:13 PM »

Im sure there's more to it than what I just read...but insisting on the software source code that runs the aircraft...that is dicey. How does the USA know that by turning over this intellectual property wont be used for other projects in the UK? Or whomever the UK decides to share it with?

It'll be interesting to see what they do to solve this issue.

Nilsen · « **Reply #39 on:** July 13, 2006, 04:40:30 PM »

I see that problem LePaul.

The thing is that all the nations seen on that plane are paying for the development of the planes. Not all are customers (yet). LM wants the money and the contracts to sell, but does not want to share technology meet thier end of the deal. In our case, and the dutch they have not yet met their end of the finanical deal (buy-back/production deals)

There are 4 companies that are cometing for the deal to sell us planes in a few years when we retire the F16s, and LM are the only company we pay money to for the development, but the only one that has not met the conditions set by out government. They have always been the favorites to win the contracts but the way they do business and make actuall threats against Norway if we dont buy may cost them the deal.