ricnunes wrote:swiss wrote:Today i was on the Breitling Sion Airshow in Switzerland. And because Swiss will have soon a evaluation for a new Fighter, all the invited manufacturers where there. Lockheed martin( sadly without a f-35), Airbus, Dassault and Saab.
From this, I gather that the Lockheed Martin's fighter aircraft that Switzerland is or will be evaluating is the F-16, right?
No it is definitively the f-35.

They had a F-35 Simulator there.
Ok i try to quote him correct. It was a lot of input, my english is not so good and its late here.
He was scrambling several Russian Fighters in the "Baltic crisis 2014" Mig-31, Su-27, Su-33 and Su-30. And the Russians never realize when the put the Radarbeam on them. Even with "old" EF Radar. There was no reaction from the Russin Pilots. He also said, that aerodynamically the Russian Fighters where always great but in terms of avionics behind western technology. Even in the cold war. Know it must be at least 10-20 years.
He had several "fights" against the F-22 with the EF. In Dogfights the 2 Fighters are at the same level. In Trust/weight Ratio terms the EF was superior, but the F-22 has advantage in other aspects. He cleary sad in BVR the F-22 is "a other league" then the EF.
He said the RCS of the EF is under 1 m2 and better then the Superhornet.
The Meteor has a superior Range to the AMRAAM. even to the D Version. And the European are happy to have the Meteor know. Because the Americans don't sell the D Modell to other countries.
The Meteor for the UK F-35 is a short version. So its has not the same range then the "normal" Meteor.
Also interesting. He and the "Radarguy" claims that the most important improvement from the Aesa Radar is not the Range. Because all Missiles have a shorter Range then the Radar. Important is that you can do several things in the same time. And its more reliable to identify targets then older Radars. Because mechanical Radars can put the beam only all view seconds on the target. The AESA all the time. Because it scan electronically.
There was some more. But its late.
