CombatAirUK

Ex RA & 40 year UK Defence Industry and Policy Exec, a bit of everything but a lot of Combat Air. Views very much my own - Don’t like them? Don’t care.

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@clashreport Bullshit

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@AverageDad40 “Just a single missile to avoid escalation”… that single missile is the escalation!

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@P1L0T @thenewarea51 Fair point

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@AlexHollings52 PSYOP - the 1976 similarities here are stark and don’t underestimate the modern folklore impact that event had - including the Mullahs at the time stating that event was a Devine sign of the then regime’s downfall.

Someone trying to send a similar message with fairy lights??

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@thenewarea51 They both want you to see their wares, but for very different reasons.

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@P1L0T @thenewarea51 Yes of course. Because flying museum exhibits at night makes absolute sense…

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@IslaMorgan09 Nothing funny about these two.

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@punishablepress “We kept to ourselves”… the defeated terrorist state says

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@Powerfuldoggo Your immature responses only exacerbate your clear lack of intelligence or informed knowledge on matters combat air - if you are part of the programme, then I’d be embarrassed at that fact quite frankly.

You’re clearly a retarded cunt.

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@Powerfuldoggo Erratic and irrational - from someone who can’t handle facts and multiple waffle posting.

Sort yourself out son, I’m not wasting my time with you, an unstable amateur fanboy who clearly doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

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@OJ_Smoke_ @MohibXP The State Department figure will be a cumulative all-up programme estimate.

Watch next for the DSCA breakdowns that will split that estimate out between aircraft, stores and effects, infrastructure, support, training and sustainment.

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@Powerfuldoggo What’s the point, you can’t accept facts as you’ve proven so far, are clearly unable to discuss in any rationale sense and I’m not waisting my time with amateurs.

As I say, you have a nice day,

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@Powerfuldoggo Argh, the usual standard of Rafale fanboy response when facts come into play.

Go and justify France’s combat air weakness someplace else son. Grown ups talking here.

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@Powerfuldoggo Facts hurt. I get it. Not my fault I get better briefs than you.

You have a nice day.

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@Powerfuldoggo Sixth, its obsolescence was underlined in India.

Fact.

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@Powerfuldoggo You can post as much waffle and excuses as you like: the French Air Force is a backwards, obsolete entity trying to bridge yesterday’s Rafale with today’s F-35 and tomorrow’s 6th Gen.

We in industry and defence all know it - you clearly don’t.

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@ThreshedThought @pepsi_v1 @hassandamluji The irony is, their Air Force (along with the National Guard) are their most proficient service.

The Land Forces - the only army I ever saw parade in flip flops; the Navy, the only one I ever worked with that actively avoided going to sea.

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@ElgoogJ @Gray_2410 @aidefranceukr The irony here of course is the MBDA Deutschland/Raytheon COMLOG JV at Schrobenhausen produces Patriot missiles in Europe - and will build more Patriot than ASTER this year and next than MBDA.

That’s how sad the situation is. MBDA needs a kick up the arse.

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@Powerfuldoggo The fact that even Belgium, has a 5th Generation air force and will have for 10 years at least, before France goes beyond 4th Gen isn’t fake news - it’s blindly obvious fact no matter how you’ll attempt to spin it.

As for MBDA sharing production, let’s all pray for that.

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@Geordie_Brigand Swedes did circa 1,700 combat mission hours on Unified Protector - and a lot of that was CAP. RAF Typhoon UP/ELLAMY equivalent was 3,000 hours.

Tornado… over 8,000 combat hours. Those were the days.