Haha! This is seriously epic! I’d take this as another proof that my parents’ generation was right; the Cold war era truly was a great time to be alive.

How about an orange dirt bike?

Allahu Akbar! BOOM!

Right, shoot down the drone and prompt them to respond with anti-ship missiles, of which they have both quantity and quality. This is just an Iranian way of showing off, directed towards their domestic audience.

Predator had been in service since the mid-90s, and drones were being used for photo reconnaissance in the Vietnam War (D-21, Firebee).

That’s just e-mailing a Benghazi horse....

Agree. This is just their way to say “Hey mom, look what can I do!”. Hell, you can rent a Cessna and do the same thing anywhere else in the world and claim you have filmed it from a “drone”.

Holy shit, yes! Let’s rob a bank a form a Jalopnik fighter squadron! Who’s coming with me?

That’s great! I actually didn’t know about either of them and it would certainly be great if it would enter service. I’m saying that because it immediately reminded me of a previous attempt to produce a small, dogfighting missile - AIM-95 and SRAAM.

AIM-120 replacement was actually canceled a couple of years ago, so, again, my point is that DoD has a chance to purchase a ready product instead of pouring money into R&D that would come up with the same or marginally better product than Meteor. Same goes for the Brimstone, but insted, they chose to dance to the…

mmmm....I’d take Quattro as daily driver and Fulvia for the weekends.

Meteor’s cost is actually comparable to the AIM-120D, which itself cost around $1,700,000, four times the price of a C model. And Meteor is a better product.

All I’m just saying we have to wait and see before making any judgments or comparisons, because you did start making wrong comparisons with the F-22 and 35 projects.

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What USAF and USN really needs to do is to buy MBDA Meteor and Brimstone, instead of wasting money on domestic projects that will lead nowhere.

Why does everyone keep praising and idolizing this thing when it hasn’t even flown yet? Nobody knows the what the finals costs are going to be, or what would its performance look like.

They still have to negotiate the OTH radars. Reduced IR signature is only meant to defeat satellites.

A number of countries have reduced their initial F-35 purchases, but all of them, apart from Canada, remain committed to it. UK did its usual political sabotage of the military, but that belongs to another discussion. And where exactly did you get the information that Australia and Denmark have backed out, when they…

You forgot that the development cost of the X-35 was 750 million, and it was a much more complex aircraft. You are comparing the development of a yet unflown prototype with the entire development cost of the most complex combat aircraft in the world. Yes, F-35 development was a mighty mess, but neither has Mitsubishi…