Davef68, that' the way I understand it as far as REPLICA goes.
Hmmmm ok, I wrote something else and decided to change my mind....
So this is the European follow on from Typhoon then...European customers that don't want to be tied to US policy and operating restrictions, and can't get the access we can on the F35, can join the inevitable pan european partnership for this design. I wonder where Dassault sit on this.
I'm going to guess it's going to need all those years in the expected IOC statement to get a design sorted and pushed through the system to actual hardware.
ETA: I think that's a really quite old concept...most armed forces have been happy that the workload can be carried by one person and modern mission systems for some time now.
Last edited by unmanned_droid; 26th Mar 2017 at 23:00.