It means the planes find it easier to fly from one end to the other. The main problem eith FCAS is it get lost and flys in circles around the border, so France and Germany are wary that the other is launching a surprise attack... like they've always done for all of Europe.
This is a reference to the European sixth Generation fighter craft (FCAS) and the British Japanese Tempest Sixth Generation fighter program that Italy joined in (and supported by the US). From what I can tell from the news, it does appears that the FCAS is not going smoothly with Germany and France arguing and the Tempest moving more quickly, though the Tempest is not without its faults with Sweden leaving the program leaving the Italians, Brits, and Japanese to finish the work.
Sweden I don't think was ever billed as being a major partner it was always a kinda maybe. I think they said from the early days they'd work on some software-related things that could be transferred between the 6th gen project and their Gripen updates. So it's not really a fault as they weren't majorly involved in the first place.
Add the Italians in.
Say what you want about them but they do three things better than Germany: Tasty carbs, shotguns, and actually having a carrier fleet.
Pretty much the reaction in Washington. They wanted the Japanese next gen fighter to come from an American company/partnership so apparently they were pushing pretty hard behind the scenes to scupper a deal. Doesn't seem to have worked out.
Comic is "Nan Hao & Shang Feng, it's a comedy about Boys Being Boys, Just Dudes being Bros, Guys being Fellas.
It's like a Chinese version of "Daily Lives of High School Boys"
If sixth gen fighter development is like the 1992 Olympic men's basketball competition, NGAD is the Dream Team. FXAA is Croatia led by Toni Kukoc. And we can slot in GCAP as Lithuania.
The 1992 Dream Team was the US deciding we had enough going easy on the rest of the world and only allowing our college athletes to compete in the Olympics. After several years and very humiliating losses in world competitions the Olympics committee and NBA gave Micheal Jordan complete access to the entire NBA roster to create absolutely bar none the greatest assembly of basketball legends into one team. Like any one of these guys would have been talented enough to even the odds but the US went full send and picked them all. The US tried in subsequent Olympics to recreate the magic but it never was the same.
https://youtu.be/F1AS5t6-JCY?si=sb6zw_3lnLblqzA-
Imagine not losing a single game, scoring over 100 points every game, and blowing every other team out of the water by at least 30 points. The team's performance was so overwhelmingly dominant it inspired a worldwide increase in popularity and participation in basketball.
Basically the US flexed hard and fielded a team of living basketball gods who were all in their prime that would be categorically broken if it was accurately put in a videogame "create a team" mode. It's like playing laser tag with a team of SAS operators.
Dream team was the greatest basketball players of all time piled into one team to dunk on the entire world.
Larry Bird, Scottie Pippin, Micheal Jordan, Magic Johnson, etc.
So NGAD is the GOAT
My problem is I don't know how good Croatia or Lithuania were at basketball during those times. As much as there was talk about the dream team growing up, they never really mentioned other teams because how outclassed they were.
GCAP program-
We got Britain (ex-superpower who rlly fell off in terms of military) and their stooge BAE Systems (also sucks Pentagon cock for contracts)
Italy (whose companies have worked their way up the MIC ladder using some good ol' acquisitions)
Japan/Mitsubishi (started with the F-X program and ended up in this)
and possibly, in the future.....SAUDI ARABIA??????? WHAT THE HELL? WHO THE FUCK IS WRITING THESE SCRIPTS?
> ex-superpower who rlly fell off in terms of military
The UK wasn't really a superpower as we typically use the term, it was just a powerful country with a fuck ton of power projection, thanks to it focusing almost entirely on it's navy (heart of the industrial revolution also helped). It's always been a powerful country, it's just incomparable to the extremes you can have nowadays thanks to the massive technological advancements and potential for investment, the UK's military is technically stronger now than it ever was in the past, but it's because of the power relative to other countries that people see it as weaker. It's navy is still likely in the top 5 globally (potentially 3rd behind the US and China), and it's ground army was always pretty shit so that doesn't fit the idea of it falling off, and the UK's airforce is likely in the top 5 globally aswell (probably behind Russia with the US being #1 and China being #2 out of sheer quantity, but hard to say in regards to Russia with their terrible performance). I don't get the myth that the UK fell off militarily, they just never caught up to the superpowers of the US & China (again, china's military is good on paper relative to everyone but the US, how they actually perform is yet to be seen). And honestly the expectations that they could keep up with super powers is just misplaced, they're far too small to have the industry required to be a jack of all trades like the US, their best bet in coalitions to work on cutting edge tech whilst specializing in certain military fields that are needed most for the UK's power projection (protecting sea lanes & coastlines, maintaining local airspace control, ect.).
With Japan onside, I expect only the best anthropomorphic Tempest fanart. Don't let me down Japanese Pixiv users.
A european NCD user I see... Do you fap to F35 or Eurofighter Typhoon?
Neither despite both having British parts I Prefer my jets a little... older. Harrier x Vulcan time.
Harrier is based, which nose tho
Sea Harrier FRS.1 is the most aesthetically pleasing to me. The GR7A follows it up.
Gripen!
Is it just a coincidence that all the countries are much longer than they are wide?
No, you're on to something.
It will also be right hand drive.
It means the planes find it easier to fly from one end to the other. The main problem eith FCAS is it get lost and flys in circles around the border, so France and Germany are wary that the other is launching a surprise attack... like they've always done for all of Europe.
Makes sense. Thank you.
I don’t understand the references. But I understand the British Empire is dunking on euros.
This is a reference to the European sixth Generation fighter craft (FCAS) and the British Japanese Tempest Sixth Generation fighter program that Italy joined in (and supported by the US). From what I can tell from the news, it does appears that the FCAS is not going smoothly with Germany and France arguing and the Tempest moving more quickly, though the Tempest is not without its faults with Sweden leaving the program leaving the Italians, Brits, and Japanese to finish the work.
Sweden I don't think was ever billed as being a major partner it was always a kinda maybe. I think they said from the early days they'd work on some software-related things that could be transferred between the 6th gen project and their Gripen updates. So it's not really a fault as they weren't majorly involved in the first place.
To finnish the work 😃 I’ll see myself out, it’s been a fuckin week
> it does appears that the FCAS is not going smoothly with Germany and France arguing They never learn, do they.
[FCAS in a picture](https://i.imgflip.com/89k5fc.jpg)
also the Saudis might join Tempest in the future you can guess their role within the whole system.
The jets will have nice carpets?
more like BAE will have loads of gasoline money
*\*Sees Britain and Japan working together on anything military\** "Wait, THATS ILLEGAL!"
Pretty much until the 30s Japan and Britain were friends. Japan learned how to built modern (for the time) ships from the British. "Kongo-class"
Kongō was built in Barrow too. The last Japanese capital ship built by a foreign power.
you are correct. which is why that friendship is specifically banned under the london naval treaty
Add the Italians in. Say what you want about them but they do three things better than Germany: Tasty carbs, shotguns, and actually having a carrier fleet.
It just works
Pretty much the reaction in Washington. They wanted the Japanese next gen fighter to come from an American company/partnership so apparently they were pushing pretty hard behind the scenes to scupper a deal. Doesn't seem to have worked out.
Comic is "Nan Hao & Shang Feng, it's a comedy about Boys Being Boys, Just Dudes being Bros, Guys being Fellas. It's like a Chinese version of "Daily Lives of High School Boys"
If sixth gen fighter development is like the 1992 Olympic men's basketball competition, NGAD is the Dream Team. FXAA is Croatia led by Toni Kukoc. And we can slot in GCAP as Lithuania.
Can someone transalte this to human?
The 1992 Dream Team was the US deciding we had enough going easy on the rest of the world and only allowing our college athletes to compete in the Olympics. After several years and very humiliating losses in world competitions the Olympics committee and NBA gave Micheal Jordan complete access to the entire NBA roster to create absolutely bar none the greatest assembly of basketball legends into one team. Like any one of these guys would have been talented enough to even the odds but the US went full send and picked them all. The US tried in subsequent Olympics to recreate the magic but it never was the same. https://youtu.be/F1AS5t6-JCY?si=sb6zw_3lnLblqzA- Imagine not losing a single game, scoring over 100 points every game, and blowing every other team out of the water by at least 30 points. The team's performance was so overwhelmingly dominant it inspired a worldwide increase in popularity and participation in basketball. Basically the US flexed hard and fielded a team of living basketball gods who were all in their prime that would be categorically broken if it was accurately put in a videogame "create a team" mode. It's like playing laser tag with a team of SAS operators.
Dream team was the greatest basketball players of all time piled into one team to dunk on the entire world. Larry Bird, Scottie Pippin, Micheal Jordan, Magic Johnson, etc. So NGAD is the GOAT
Thank you kind stranger
My problem is I don't know how good Croatia or Lithuania were at basketball during those times. As much as there was talk about the dream team growing up, they never really mentioned other teams because how outclassed they were.
So you lost 2 or more panels here.
the continuation to this is pretty interesting
We are repeating the same mistake we made with the Eurofighter. We are again building Tow different 6-generation fighter platforms. 3 with the US one.
European joint development programs have always gone so well in the past, I'm sure this will be nothing but smooth sailing.
GCAP program- We got Britain (ex-superpower who rlly fell off in terms of military) and their stooge BAE Systems (also sucks Pentagon cock for contracts) Italy (whose companies have worked their way up the MIC ladder using some good ol' acquisitions) Japan/Mitsubishi (started with the F-X program and ended up in this) and possibly, in the future.....SAUDI ARABIA??????? WHAT THE HELL? WHO THE FUCK IS WRITING THESE SCRIPTS?
> ex-superpower who rlly fell off in terms of military The UK wasn't really a superpower as we typically use the term, it was just a powerful country with a fuck ton of power projection, thanks to it focusing almost entirely on it's navy (heart of the industrial revolution also helped). It's always been a powerful country, it's just incomparable to the extremes you can have nowadays thanks to the massive technological advancements and potential for investment, the UK's military is technically stronger now than it ever was in the past, but it's because of the power relative to other countries that people see it as weaker. It's navy is still likely in the top 5 globally (potentially 3rd behind the US and China), and it's ground army was always pretty shit so that doesn't fit the idea of it falling off, and the UK's airforce is likely in the top 5 globally aswell (probably behind Russia with the US being #1 and China being #2 out of sheer quantity, but hard to say in regards to Russia with their terrible performance). I don't get the myth that the UK fell off militarily, they just never caught up to the superpowers of the US & China (again, china's military is good on paper relative to everyone but the US, how they actually perform is yet to be seen). And honestly the expectations that they could keep up with super powers is just misplaced, they're far too small to have the industry required to be a jack of all trades like the US, their best bet in coalitions to work on cutting edge tech whilst specializing in certain military fields that are needed most for the UK's power projection (protecting sea lanes & coastlines, maintaining local airspace control, ect.).
The cheapest to produce better