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I dont' see any change between mk1 and mk1A.... at least externally. What changed?

I don't remember what is the engine selected for Mk2.

Indeed. A M88 with new materials, higher temperature in entry turbine....

I think an Indian France JV is the plan B in case of a FCAS failure....

https://www.eumet-engine.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/video_eumet_engine_1.mp4

No fuel in the F16 vertical fin. I'm nearly sure.

The first flight of the NGF demonstrator was expected in 2027. I think it already have slipped to 2029. The new engine had to be ready for that time. But it will be an interim engine, probably less powerfull than the definitive one, as the demonstrator will mainly be tested in a clean and pure...

To add 30 cm is one thing, with "low" effect on center of gravity. Adding 1.5 meters or more is another bird

EJ2000 is made by 4 country : 4 times a political risk. On the same time USA is not the easier partner.... So sad the M88 of 9tons is not ready and industrialised...

Not only the delay of Tejas. Mirage 2000 is an Indian nuclear asset (maybe not the case of Rafale yet) : It's an easy, speedy and cheap way to increase nuc bombers. In the mean time China intend to increase from 300 to 1000+ the nuc stockpile.

Heavy config !

Dassault & SNECMA worked to have a max commonality between the 2 engines, on the engine itself and on the plane. As the M88 is smaller, where you can fit a F404, you can replace it easily by a M88. Rafale A was a test bed for new plane solution, but also an engine test bed because Dassault and...

It is something we often forget when we want to purchase a car, a washing machine, etc... THE PRICE OF SPARE PARTS. Maybe it was also the case here.

Russia has another logic than west one : they want rustic and affordable weapons, so they assume not to have world top standards. The price of a russian fighter << a west one. So is MBT price, Kalash price.... They want quantity over quality. Quantity is a quality in itself....

I don't think so. You can hand made a 3D composite thing. Automatic layer deposit machine just help to be more speedy, and far more accurate.

Indeed : Fluid dynamic (and area rules, in the same way) of a CFT fitted bird is degraded.

The plane is short in length : the CFT will degrade aero too much. And you have to take the "area rules" to be easily supersonic. Such CFT don't help.

Automatic layer deposit machines.

The bird is very small. Difficult to adapt an aerodynamically smooth CFT on a so short bird.

I've seen a news some days ago that a sell of old F16 from a european country to Argentina was agreed by USA.