When was the AIM-120D invented? When was Meteor?

UK stocking 120Ds is probably for their F-35 fleet; Meteor is operational now on Typhoon

my point is that you have to take timeline and availability into consideration when evaluating why people chose to do something

The 2000s are a very long time!

As has been said many times, M346FA is far behind FA50 in development and proven performance

Not at all
It helps to understand why people make the decisions they do if you have a realistic understanding of what options they had at the time

There are multiple factors besides performance why sales are made
If you want to compare sales figures then US and Soviet equipment will always be tops but that doesn't necessarily bespeak their performance

This post has been edited by KLthinker91: Apr 9 2023, 04:53 PM

Ehhh I don't think it's fully ITAR free

Gabriel series
Which actually is relatively popular in Europe, Germany and I think Finland uses it

Check programme development and contracting as well my dear.

the dates of development are publicly available
I'm merely drawing your attention to information you have overlooked
if you consider that offensive verging on mala fide, have it your way; I desist
good day.

You seem offended that anyone would contradict your pronouncements or suggest you try and learn something, and lash out with vicious ad hominem at anyone who dares try
That's a very interesting attitude to life
nuff said

since you know everything already and any attempt to say otherwise draws this kind of response, we'll all just kowtow to your omniscience then

This post has been edited by KLthinker91: Apr 13 2023, 01:05 AM

Super?
What size is Gorshkov...

Lider, Storm, or whatever has always been a fantasy project
Even worse than PAKFA or Armata
Russia has no large shipbuilding capability

KFX memang cannot touch F35

actually the French are the most ruthless in selling weapons to anybody. The most advanced optics in Russian tanks currently are actually French. (So are ours.)

As for the Exocet? The Royal Navy doesn't need France to tell them about Exocet, they know all about it:



no offence, but I will believe that when it is commissioned and afloat
the ability of Russian shipyards to deliver.... doesn't have a great reputation

clickbait
mark my words, come September sure no comment from these bastards when she sails again

actually worth considering

the USN's main problem with these ships is that the USN doesn't need them and they exceed the USN's manning and maintenance budget for ships of this type. for us however, they would be our major combat ships, so higher manpower and maintenance costs is not really a major headache

IF we can get them cheap and with a decent weapons fit, they would do as a stopgap. but then again there are risks involved obviously. I just wouldn't dismiss them out of hand.

There are many many many things wrong with LCS for USN let's put this way it would take too long to go through

Anyway it's just a suggestion. There could be many reasons why we shouldn't take it up either

Nope

the highlighted section here is less than half a meter
you squeeze how also you won't squeeze another A-50 set in there

tight squeeze if at all possible - I'm still not sure
the MICA VL installation is not extremely compact
just one cell you see here measures approximately 36cm x 54cm minimum
as I showed you, the bit of gap between the two existing A-50 launchers is less than half a metre
and you can't take ALL of that space, there will always be a few cm here and there

Beautiful picture of French Horizon class frigate

Blue Spear is about the size of Harpoon and carries a similar warhead

Tomahawk Block Vb is the most capable NATO ship-launched antiship missile in service

As I said, at least 36 x 54cm, and that won't fit into what's left of deck space even if you budge the existing silos a little

The gap is deceptively small because of the size of the ship
If you compare with the people on deck, there's still at least a foot if not more of space between

My point is simply that even the standalone cell is not small enough to do what you propose

you said "larger" but in reality it is "longer"
the additional length is where Blue Spear gets its range, plus other features
in terms of size, Blue Spear and Harpoon carry similar warheads

Tomahawk can be carried by any ship that can put its launch box on deck
I couldn't give a used shit what it originated as, so long as it does its job, and Tomahawk Block 5 does its job very well
I particularly like the 5b model with the Joint Multi Effects Warhead

and I've shown you that your "closer together" will not end up gaining much space, and shown you measurements why. you claim the LMV's bridge is "tight" but you're not looking at any objective measure at all, merely your impression of a photograph.

I'm not the one living in la la land here.

yes it's very finicky to maintain without parts