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Originally Posted by indianguy4u
Why have UK, Germany, Spain, Italy spend so much for EF 2000, which is not as good as F22. Cant improvements be made to EF to be comparable to raptor. Also which of these EF2000, Rafale, F35 is more capable than the other
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All you need to do is enlarge the design about 25%, double the thrust, double the fuel load, get rid of external weapons, add all aspect stealth and it would be as good as the Raptor. Then again it wouldn't be the same aircraft. Despite what the Europeans may say the Typhoon and Rafale are not in the same class as the Raptor and Eagle. Nowhere near the range and payload. They're medium fighters like the F-16 and JSF. Also, which is better boils down to how effective stealth really is. If they they can't see the JSF, they can't do anything about it. I'm also intrigued by the JSFs DAIRS system.