Well yes but im being spiteful and including testing :p
They were in service with RAF from 2003, so I dont think so
but was that IPA-5 or the first tranche 1s?
Wiki, so take it with a pinch of salt.
Development started in 1983
First flew 1994
entered production 1998
entered service 2003
If you’ve ever seen how any of the advanced eagles fly… You almost wouldn’t believe that they are the same airframe.
they got Thrust vectoring now or what?
What we doin today?
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Very advanced digital fly-by-wire. F-15QA, EX are now capable of very high AOA, far beyond the original eagles.
(See 2:06, and that’s with 12 AMRAAMs.)
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Watching US Mains justify needing F-18E to take on Typhoon DAs
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F-15EX/F-18E stick measuring contest with EFT
the available sides are:
- EFT Tranche 1 will Mop the floor with all of them
- F-15EX is so much better, it flies so good
- Shay Talking about what to me seems random details
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Hmm, interesting
now I’d take that as a compliment if you count in their maths
that would mean the first peoduction variant will overpower anything but F-22
gotta wait for when they hear about Tranche 4
True, normally it’s trying to convince the Americans that their kit isn’t automatically the best. It’s weird having to do the opposite.
Gen 7 fighters needed just for T2 typhoons
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Block II Super Hornet vs Tranche 1 Typhoon when
what Block typhoon? Block 5?
Woah there, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Gen 9 at least.
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F/A-18F when so I can recreate my Battlefield 3 fantasies
You know very well that everyone who just says Tranche 1 and knows about blocks means block 5.
Nah bro, that’s not being fair to US mains. Block 2 it is.
Or B2. I would not at all be surprised or even really disappointed if the first typhoons had no A2G.
It would actually be a reasonable way to mitigate them