Euro fighter was designed to intercept mig29's in the cold war that never turned hot(thankfully!)It is massively late and enormously over budget!The UK will probably sell some of the massive surplus they have ordered to the Saudi's as they often buy our old rubbish-think Tornado air defence variant!!
Typhoon is yesterdays aeroplane and the sooner the UK can get hold of some JSF the better it will be for the country.
Rapier is a short range sam and I know of no rapier batteries permanently established in Wales.
NAT tracks move every 12 hours due to forecast wind conditions-minimum time routes.
Civil aircaft frequently fly up to 207 minutes from a suitable airport-it is called ETOPS(engines turning or passengers swimming)
US stealth aircraft are now over a decade old and this technology has been superceded :ping:

ETOPS = Extended Twin Engined Oparations i like your veriant better :D

Id like to see Britiain get something like the F22 but doubt itll happen.

The American stealth that you are referring to here is based on the older F-117. Even if the Rapier battery could have ID'd it (without it squawking IFF codes), congratulations...an ultra-modern missile managed to pick up a 2nd generation stealth design (SR-71 being the first) that has been in service for almost thirty years and is being considered for retirement!

Even if the Typhoon is more maneuverable than the F-22 (which no one knows for certain, but I doubt it thanks to the F-22's thrust vectoring), the F-22 would still be able to pick up a Typhoon far further away than a Typhoon could pick up an F-22. At this point in time, where missiles can kill things BVR reliably, maneuverability is a luxury. Stealth is the key in the modern world. That's why the designs for the latest front line aircraft are stealth-based (e.g. B-2 (last bomber designed), F-22, and F-35).

We will certainly find out when the two meet at an up and coming Red Flag.

Then there will be no arguments :)

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There can hartly be an argument now...
Read Cornwallis and JSLTIGER's posts. The F-22 and F-35 are of a different concept and at least half a generation ahead (as stealth is concerned at least a whole generation).
But I'm glad that the RAF has a new true fighterplane, be it the third best.
The last true fighter was the Hawker Hunter.
:D

I like the idea of the Eurofighter but america is not enamy it is friend and i like that.

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Arn't you forgetting the F-4 Phantom? :hmm:

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Are we talking about fighter planes or about over-engined, over-sized, badly glued plastic models of which the nose, the wings and the stabilizers hang down...
:D

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They were fine aircraft until the Brits messed them up with their Rolls Royce Spey turbofans instead of their proper US built GE J79 turbojets! Still but that badly glued plastic model was the best RAF/FAA fighter since the Spit!

F4 best fighter since the spit on your bike !

Best RAF/FAA fighter since the Spit. Not my fault you guys didn't buy the whop ass F-8 Crusader. :roll:

Sadly the harrier has to be the best seeing as it shot down so many supersonic fighters in the falklands that were deemed to be so much more advanced than the little harriers.

what was the count some looses to 0

USN/USMC F-8s Vs. NVAAF MiGs:
19:3

Not bad considering they were using the buggy AIM-9B Sidwinders and had resrictive ROEs.

:ping: Respect the 'MiG Master' :ping:

It probly has something to do with the fact the migs were not allowed to enguage without ground telling them, which was the case but yeah F8 was a good plane ugly but good.

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Hey TLAM Strike, what was the name of that attack plane that was deducted from the Crusader. Wasn't that the Vought A-? Corsair II or something? Looked smaller but was actually slightly larger and served in Vietnam (if I'm not mistaken).

You know what happens to people who call the F-8 ugly...
http://img476.imageshack.us/img476/1661/avcrus265ws.jpg
They get fed to it!
:P :lol:

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The Vought A-7 Corsair II. :up:

My dad was a storekeeper for a A-7 Squadron. :rock:

Man eating aircraft AHHRREEEEE Mutant.

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That was also a tough bastard, wasn't it?
Didn't the Airforce buy them as was?

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Yea they were tough and strong. My dad loves to say 'an A-7 carry an A-6 Intruder'! Which isn't far from the truth.

They sure could take some damage:
and give it in return...
They served in the USN, USAF, US ANG It was also exported to South Vietnam (during the Vietnam War), Greece (in the 1970s, and converted to an Air Defense role!), Portugal, and Thailand (in the late 1980s)