 | Which modern nation has highest potential in aerospace?| Aviation Discuss Which modern nation has highest potential in aerospace? in the World War II - Aviation forums; Originally Posted by syscom3
The country that deploys UAV's designed specifically for air-to-air that are autonomous, will ... |
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05-04-2006, 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by syscom3 The country that deploys UAV's designed specifically for air-to-air that are autonomous, will own the airspace over the battlefield. | Eventually you will be correct. This is an exciting field to get into. Unfortunately, politics will delay onset. General and Admirals responsible for weapons procurement are typically fighter pilots and will delay any progress the best they can. They are the latest "battleship admirals". | 
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Originally Posted by davparlr Eventually you will be correct. This is an exciting field to get into. Unfortunately, politics will delay onset. General and Admirals responsible for weapons procurement are typically fighter pilots and will delay any progress the best they can. They are the latest "battleship admirals". | Agree'd.
Unfortunatley for them, the cost of building these new fighters are so expensive (let alone train pilots and keep them proficient) that simple economics is going to be the end of most of the dangerous manned missions.
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05-04-2006, 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by syscom3 Agree'd.
Unfortunatley for them, the cost of building these new fighters are so expensive (let alone train pilots and keep them proficient) that simple economics is going to be the end of most of the dangerous manned missions. | I agree. | |
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05-05-2006, 11:55 AM
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Country:  | Ozumn i fail to see why you're opposed to Eu fighters? (i'm not too sure if you are or not) there are a LOT of politics that get in the way of development but all the same some of Europe's jointly developed aircraft are the best in the world, and sharing out the cost whilst getting the knowledge of half a continent isn't a bad thing, many joint Eu fighters are at the very least the equal of American fighters, the Airbusses aint too bad either, and look what happens when the Uk and US join forces.........
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05-05-2006, 12:57 PM
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im not sure what you mean by UK an US are they making a fighter? or something else. i know germany and us made some X plane hmm cant remember the name. i for one would like to skip american help in making a plane like we in sweden got to know when we tried to sell Viggen it was stoped all the time so they could sell the F16 =( that misstake didnt happen with gripen. | |
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05-05-2006, 01:20 PM
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#51 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | well we had a bit of input into the F-35  and it'll be a LONG time before the Eu and Russia work together for a fighter........
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Lockheed-Martin/ BAE F-35
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks *** Ozumn i fail to see why you're opposed to Eu fighters? (i'm not too sure if you are or not) there are a LOT of politics that get in the way of development but all the same some of Europe's jointly developed aircraft are the best in the world, and sharing out the cost whilst getting the knowledge of half a continent isn't a bad thing, many joint Eu fighters are at the very least the equal of American fighters, the Airbusses aint too bad either, and look what happens when the Uk and US join forces......... | The issue here is not in techical expertise. Certainly several countries have capability to build great aircraft. Indeed, we put EU and Israel equipment on some of our latest aircraft. The issue is commitment of money to develop these weapons systems. In 2003 the US military budget was $417 billion. The combined military budgets of Germany, France, UK, and Italy were $151 Billion. You can figure that the rest of the EU is trivial. This is a significant advantage in research and development for US military aircraft development. until the EU steps up to shoulder more economic burden, they will have a difficult time meeting the US technically. Effectively, they are willing, and, by voting with their wallet, happy to concede military superiority to the US. | |
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05-05-2006, 07:45 PM
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05-05-2006, 11:18 PM
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| The PRC is still a 3rd world country.
They are not some unstoppable giant that is undefeatable.
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05-06-2006, 02:20 AM
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| Nice technical picture there FLYBOYJ.
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks *** and don't you forget it | Now now, remember where she was born!!! 
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Country: | In a work entitled America, Russia and the Revolution in
Military Affairs, two young Chinese officers at the Academy
of Military Science have issued their own warning: “Those
who believe that the current revolution in military affairs
will be under the control of the United States or can de -
velop only according to the speed and directions set by the
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