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Belgium selects F-35 over Typhoon

Old 22nd Oct 2018, 18:16
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Belgium selects F-35 over Typhoon


Belgium has selected the F-35 over the Eurofighter Typhoon.

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Brave Belgium. That will screw their Defence Budget.
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34 aircraft and four spare engines. I presume that there is actually a contract for ongoing engine overhaul and the four spares just act as the rotating buffer? I guess that is enough, if they accept lots of grounded aircraft in times of high aircraft utilisation, such as a war!

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I guess that is enough, if they accept lots of grounded aircraft in times of high aircraft utilisation, such as a war!

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There's an oxymoron in there somewhere. Anyway, best to play safe.
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It could be they need a few more of them?

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Originally Posted by chopper2004

Belgium has selected the F-35 over the Eurofighter Typhoon.

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So did the UK!
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Difficult to see Typhoon getting many more orders.
Fantastic jet but very expensive and of course it isn't 5th Generation...
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Originally Posted by Onceapilot
34 aircraft and four spare engines. I presume that there is actually a contract for ongoing engine overhaul and the four spares just act as the rotating buffer? I guess that is enough, if they accept lots of grounded aircraft in times of high aircraft utilisation, such as a war!

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When was the last time Belgium went to war? When was the last time they had a difficult budget to pay for? Reality.
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Originally Posted by GlobalNav
When was the last time Belgium went to war? When was the last time they had a difficult budget to pay for? Reality.
December....

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Originally Posted by Buster15
Difficult to see Typhoon getting many more orders.
Fantastic jet but very expensive and of course it isn't 5th Generation...
it’s not even 4.5....

I suspect tha the Qatar and Omani orders may well be the last. Shame we didn’t buy Super Hornets, far better in most respects with much more customer focussed support.
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Kleine-Brogel, Dec. 26, 2017 - Early this morning, four Belgian combat aircraft took off from an air base in the middle east for the last time. The fighter jets have taken the road back to Belgium after 18 months of operations over Syria and Iraq. This marks the end of the Desert Falcon mission for the F-16.
Maybe the ran out of engines and had to be towed.☺
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Brave Belgium. That will screw their Defence Budget.
With these to be delivered in the mid-2020s at the earliest, the F-35A will be significantly cheaper to procure and operate than any of the competition by then,
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One could follow the roads (IFR NAV) back to Belgium could they not?
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And Rafale?

Be interesting to see how this affects Rafale. Dassault struggling to sort the hugely reduced India order due, I’m led to believe by offset issues. And if Typhoon is allegedly gen 4.5, what can Dassault do to the French fleet to keep them part of the night one day one team that their politicians still seem to want when the entry level is F35? Heard a lot of French senior airmen saying stealth is irrelevant, but that could possibly be because they don’t have the capability. Guess we just need the Germans to tilt towards F35 and the European club is almost complete without France. A voir.....

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Originally Posted by melmothtw
With these to be delivered in the mid-2020s at the earliest, the F-35A will be significantly cheaper to procure and operate than any of the competition by then,
Well played, stops them getting the early build dross....
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Shame we didn’t buy Super Hornets, far better in most respects with much more customer focussed support.
And you could have lobbed them off a Carrier.. if only........
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"Shame we didn’t buy Super Hornets, far better in most respects...."

How, exactly?

Not in terms of being able to defeat the perceived threat, which seems to be the key.....
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Originally Posted by Jackonicko
"Shame we didn’t buy Super Hornets, far better in most respects...."

How, exactly?

Not in terms of being able to defeat the perceived threat, which seems to be the key.....
So, why the hell are we buying a gen 5 jet for floating about on a vulnerable gin palace at huge cost when the perceived threat is here?

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What perceived threat?

As we are buying BOTH Typhoon and F-35 surely we have all bases covered?
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What perceived threat?

As we are buying BOTH Typhoon and F-35 surely we have all bases covered?
The argument that Europe needs gen 5 is the perceived threat bit.
The UK F-35 buy has been lynched by the Admirals and misguided Pollies for an inappropriate expeditionary warfare UK capability.

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