International Aerospace Discussion - Jan 2018

[Rakesh]

Gripen E/F uses the GE F414 turbofan.

Saab receives Gripen E/F order for Thailand
https://www.saab.com/newsroom/press-rel ... r-thailand
25 August 2025

[Rakesh]

Gripen E/F uses the GE F414 turbofan.

Saab receives Gripen E/F order for Thailand
https://www.saab.com/newsroom/press-rel ... r-thailand
25 August 2025

https://x.com/zone5aviation/status/1959956943168303124 ---> 139 million USD a pop, incl offsets, for four jets. Interesting benchmark.

[Tanaji]

SpaceX has its own priorities and considerations and this is not an attempt to compare with ISRO. However, the sheer scale of its vision is mind boggling:

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/s ... unch-site/

Their goal is to have near daily launches of the monster Starship. Given that they have built it as a factory product, the economies of scale will be huge. They seem to have all bases covered: reusability, massive lift capacity and cadence. It will be very hard to compete with it and I believe the competition is at least 7-8 years behind.

[Rakesh]

RTX's Raytheon achieves longest known AMRAAM® shot
https://www.rtx.com/news/news-center/20 ... mraam-shot
16 Sept 2025

[rajkumar]

Russia Jet Powered Drones are immune to electronic countermeasures - Ukraine military intelligence
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia- ... ays-2025-9
16 Sept 2025

[Rakesh]

$285 million per plane....

This obviously includes weapons, training and other supporting Infrastructure....but still...

Peru cleared for possible $3.42 billion F-16 Block 70 buy
https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/air- ... ck-70-buy/
16 Sept 2025

[Mukesh.Kumar]

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Signals from 50% of older Geostationary satellites above North America can be intercepted by commercial off-the shelf equipment costing less than USD 1000.

An interesting article from PCMag covers how University of California, San Diego and University of Maryland researchers uncovered a security blind spot. Here's a link to their paper

Interesting nuggets uncovered were individual voice data, ATM info, Remote grid instrumentation data and even military data. Wonder if the same is the case for our satellites.

[pravula]

If its unencrypted, then yeah.

[Tanaji]

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/s ... wing-down/

There are now 10006 Starlink satellites in orbit. By any measure this is a phenomenal achievement. Imagine the infrastructure and automation required for tracking and control of each of these… It also gives the US a massive strategic capability that no other country possesses.

[Manish_P]

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/s ... wing-down/

There are now 10006 Starlink satellites in orbit. By any measure this is a phenomenal achievement. Imagine the infrastructure and automation required for tracking and control of each of these… It also gives the US a massive strategic capability that no other country possesses.

I am more impressed by the frequency with which they can launch the heavy rockets.... And even more by how they can recover and reuse them.

We Indians are born re-users. We re-purpose and re-use everything from childhood.

We need to build recoverable and reusable rockets soon.

[Manish_P]

The US Navy lost a F18 F super hornet and a MH-60 Sea Hawk, from the carrier Nimitz, within a few hours in the South China sea.

All 5 aviators recovered safely

[Rakesh]

https://x.com/accidentalproX/status/1979987008174084382 ---> Twin seater Rafale B with an external jammer pod...something along the lines of a twin-seater F-18 Growler.

[Rakesh]

Taiwan to seek compensation for delayed F-16V deliveries
https://defence-blog.com/taiwan-to-seek ... eliveries/
29 Oct 2025