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A Lockheed Martin official has confirmed that a proposal to sell Japan F-22s in some form of downgraded "international variant" is working its way through the Air Force with the support of the Japanese government, and is now "at the three- or four-star level" and among civilian decision-makers. Yet the F-22's extensive and not fully-revealed capabilities have made many in the USA very nervous about exporting it, and thereby risking a security breach around its electronic architecture, stealth aspects, or next-generation data links.
F-22 Raptors to Japan?
Originally posted by Seekerof
I am wondering if BAE is simply trying to compete with Lockheed Martin's February 2006 offer:
If price is a significant issue for Japan, like I think it may be, the Japanese may well opt for an indegenously developed variant Eurofighter/EF-2000/Typhoon.
seekerof
due to the local geopolitics I think the J-10 is a non-starter and at any rate is in the F-2 class.
Originally posted by Darkpr0
Not a bad fighter, but I was starting to think Japan would go for the J-10. It's a much more local fighter compared to the Typhoon.
Originally posted by Darkpr0
Not a bad fighter, but I was starting to think Japan would go for the J-10. It's a much more local fighter compared to the Typhoon.
Either you are unaware of what this phrase meant in the song or you are deliberately leaving open the 'pointless waste of (political) juice as a release of frustration elsewhere' connotation.
Originally posted by Figher Master FIN
Can you really compare the F-22 with the EF...??
Originally posted by Seekerof
Actually, Figher Master FIN, I can.
Accordingly, can you really compare the EF-2000 with the F-22?
seekerof
Originally posted by kilcoo316
Whats the flyaway cost ratio of EF against F-22.
Would the expected kill ratio be greater or less than that?
Originally posted by Seekerof
flyaway" costs are obvious as are also the fact that one aircraft is a pure Gen. 5 aircraft whereas the other is not. Would "flyaway" costs reflect such? Does "flyaway" costs also reflect technologies utilized, such as Stealth, internal weapons, etc, etc?
Wanna explain a bit more?
"Kill ratio" as in what?
"Kill ratio" versus each other or versus a common hostile?
Example: Years past, the BAe and DERA did simulations pitting a number of aircraft against a common hostile -- a Russian Su-35 armed with active radar missiles similar to the AIM-120 AMRAAM. The results were something like this:
Rafale: 1:1 kill ratio
EF-2000: 4.5:1 kill ratio
F-22: 10:1