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Zaphod58
reply to post by ukmicky1980
The Typhoon is more capable in flight, but lags in sensors and stealth.
stumason
reply to post by beckybecky
If you knew anything about anything, you'd know why the UK won't take an F-16 in place of an F-35. I'll give you a clue, these planes are to be flown off the carriers we are building... I'm sure you can work out the rest from there
And I'm sure I remember everyone saying the Typhoon was a flying bucket of crap back when it was being developed - now everyone loves it... The same will be said of the F-35 which the UK has had a good deal of involvement in designing and manufacturing, to counter the "why not use indigenous" aircraft argument.
Zaphod58
reply to post by beckybecky
Stealth is so much farther advanced than we see it isn't funny. I always love hearing how stealth is so obsolete but everyone is building stealth aircraft.
I guess it's a giant worldwide conspiracy to spend the money on stealth aircraft.
beckybecky
stealth is over rated and will shortly become obsolete due to more cheap processing power and sensor improvements.
Zaphod58
reply to post by Britguy
The cracks are appearing in fatigue testing, after the design life expectancy of parts. They are talking redesign because they are cracking sooner than expected.
paraphi
Stealth has been foiled for years. In GW1 the Royal Navy were merrily tracking F117 stealth bombers, much to the US annoyance.
Zaphod58
No. Like I said, the cracks are appearing at the end of the fatigue life. They're appearing sooner than the engineers expected though, so they're redesigning some of the parts so they don't fail before the end of the life cycle.
Zaphod58
reply to post by crazyewok
This fix is being worked on the Fatigue Test airframe, so it's not affecting the flight testing. Any fix will be retrofitted to built aircraft, and altered during construction of new aircraft.