Typhoon will grow larger.
Kuwait orders 28 Typhoons.
http://www.reuters.com/article/finmeccanica-eurofighter-kuwait-idUSL8N1694K7
>>29133810
The canard brotherhood expands its reach.
>canards
>not stealth
>2 engines
>more expensive that an F-35
lol
>>29134008
>Saudi puppet states
>Caring about practicality
>Not just buying whatever aircraft closest resembles the Ferrari in their garage
F35 fags on suicide watch?
>>29133828
S-senpai!
>>29134008
>>29134025
lockmart shills detected
>>29134205
>what is cherrypicking
>>29134869
What f35fags do to explain it's neverending failure to enter service.
>>29133828
>IAF attemps to fly straight.webm
>>29134869
jesus christ, get the pinecone out of your ass.
>>29133810
Why would anyone buy this overpriced eurotrash?
>>29135916
What are bribes and why do middle eastern princes love them?
>>29134008
>in service
>>29133828
>go home ivan you're drunk again/still
>>29134008
>a decade old plane is not as modern as one that hasn't been finished yet
Just have to be number 1, even in mental development issues.
>>29135916
>>29136644
Not only middle-eastern princes.
>>29134008
>Selling F-35s to extreme islamic states and Israel.
Are you really this dumb?
>>29134205
I never understood why 'murica wanted to replace the A-10 with the F-35. Sure it's gun won't kill the more recent tanks, but other than that it will fuck up most vehicles. And it has 11 hardpoints for missles for dedicated tank killing. And MUCH cheaper than the F-35
>>29137553
The A-10 is being retired without replacement because
>low-and-slow is obsolete
>it's a pain in the dick to use from an operational perspective
>just about everything in service has a higher payload than it
>gun is overkill for anything that isn't a tank and useless against actual tanks
>>29137586
But how will the F-35 be more suited than the A-10 for CAS?
>>29137553
The A-10 can't survive in a contested environment.
>>29134008
>canards
>2 engines
those are pros, not cons.
>more expensive than an F-35
not fair, it would be cheaper if someone ordered 2000 of them
>not stealth
f-35 is sukhoi fodder with or without it's semi-stealth
>>29137610
Because CAS is no longer the "low and slow" gun runs that everyone thinks of. Ever since the late '90s (even the Gulf War, depending on how you look at it), PGMs have meant that it's just as effective and far more efficient from an operational perspective to have a launch aircraft loaded with PGMs orbiting above the battlefield and lobbing them at targets that pop up.
Such a profile keeps the launch aircraft out of harms' way (the envelope for MANPADs and AAA tends to be up to about 15,000ft) while improving fuel efficiency.
As for specifics, the F-35 has
>1,000kg more payload
>massively superior avionics suite
>better performance
>double the combat radius
of an A-10. And, unlike the A-10, which becomes seriously threatened if the enemy has so much as a couple of MANPADS in the operational area, the F-35 is fairly survivable even in a heavily contested environment.
>>29137553
There are a lot of high-profile modernization programs going on now and $$$ isn't infinite, that's why. Something has to get cut and the A-10 is a logical place to start because it is a subsonic jet with no stealth.
>>29137610
>But how will the F-35 be more suited than the A-10 for CAS?
The most relevant part of >>29137586 was
>retired WITHOUT REPLACEMENT
Not >to be replaced by the F-35
The use of PGMs has made literally every aircraft capable of utilizing air to ground ordance, up to and including strategic bombers, as effective or more effective than the A-10 in providing CAS.
This is not to say that the A-10 is not effective. But it is getting old, to the point where maintainability will quickly become a major issue, and it does not fulfill any roles that have not been suitably covered by other aircraft.
>>29134008
>more expensive that an F-35
only after lockheeb accounting tricks
>projected costs for an infinite order sans engine
>totally realistic price guys! gib billions
Sad fate for the Typhoon. It will be mothballed in old dusty Kuwaiti AF hangers with a couple to fly around for show when the brass comes around.
At least they will be brand new sitting in the hangers next to unpacked components and instruction manuals.
>>29137910
Fuck you talking about
>>29137948
he's implying the Kuwaiti chair force isn't about to bob out and operate any time soon.
>>29138321
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian-led_intervention_in_Yemen
They're literally operating right now
>>29138331
hence I said 'he' and 'implying'
>>29137703
While I agree with you, the air defense network of most countries with ex soviet gear is more complex than that.
Gulf war one was a good example of the complexity of operating in a modern airspace. However, i agree with what you are saying about PGMs. In GW1, JSTARS could resolve individual trucks and artillery encampments and the f117as could have pgms on them without ever putting themselves in danger
>>29135916
Because your government had their thumbs in their arses when it came to approving the sale of Super Hornets to Kuwait.
>>29138379
>Gulf war one was a good example of the complexity of operating in a modern airspace
That's actually what I was talking about with the MANPADS. You might be able to behead an IADS and neutralize the most threatening elements fairly easily, but it's a lot harder to take out mobile systems dispersed among combat units like Shilkas, Buks, and MANPADS.
