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has the euro fighter been produced yet?
dj
"certainly"
I left myself way open for that one
Oui.
Looks like the Japanese are playing a poliitcal game. They announced that they will buy Typhoons if they can't get F-22s. Now that should be interesting. That would topple the US monopoly for the JSDF.
Also, remember the F-15 has the largest physical size radome able to accomodate the largest aperature AESA. With a modernized weapon system, F-15Cs and F-15Es are being equipped with Raytheon AESAs now that would provide a VERY formidable adversary for even the most modern of fighters. Don't understimate an aircraft based solely upon the antiquity of the airframe. That is not where the technological advantages have been occurring in the last 10-15 years. The airframe and propulsion wars of the 70s-80s are gone.