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randomradio said:
My bet on why Navantia will win the submarine tender.
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Oh yes, they're the ones who stole French know-how as part of the cooperation on the Scorpene programme, who abandoned the export programme to India midway through, leaving the French to finish on their own, and who designed a competing programme using French technology but which ended up with a submarine that was too heavy, couldn't float and had to be redesigned by GE to be able to float.
 
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Picdelamirand-oil said:
Scholz: Germany won't deliver Eurofighters to S.Arabia in near future
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Germany will not deliver Eurofighter combat aircraft to Saudi Arabia in the near future, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday, after a newspaper quoted a government document as linking any such move to an end of the war in Yemen.

Saudi Arabia leads a coalition that has been battling the Iranian-aligned Houthis in Yemen since 2015. The war has killed tens of thousands of people and left millions hungry.

"There will be no decision on the delivery of Eurofighter jets to Saudi Arabia any time soon," Scholz told reporters on the second day of a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.

A government source told Reuters that Germany would not decide the issue during this legislative term, which ends in 2025.

Earlier on Wednesday, Germany's SZ newspaper cited an internal government document as saying that "applications for export licences for Saudi Arabia will be postponed until the end of the war in Yemen".

Germany halted arms sales to Saudi Arabia following the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, taking a far tougher approach than major allies such as the United States, France and Britain.

But since the rapprochement of Saudi Arabia and Iran earlier this year, Britain has argued that Germany can no longer block the export of Eurofighter jets to third parties.

Britain's BAE Systems (BAES.L) struck a deal five years ago for the arms maker to supply 48 of the jets in question, but a third of the components for the jets come from Germany.

According to reports earlier this month, Germany's governing coalition was at odds over whether to cede to British pressure, with the Greens strongly opposed to the move.
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Man, then they seem like the worst to have a strategic deal with.
 
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Picdelamirand-oil said:
Oh yes, they're the ones who stole French know-how as part of the cooperation on the Scorpene programme, who abandoned the export programme to India midway through, leaving the French to finish on their own, and who designed a competing programme using French technology but which ended up with a submarine that was too heavy, couldn't float and had to be redesigned by GE to be able to float.
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I don't know much about the rivalry. What did they steal though?
 
Fatalis said:
Looks like this is only applicable for Third world countries. Not Europe, US and UK.
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France will find it difficult to use the FCAS as a foreign policy tool, what with Germany vetoing anybody and everybody. But 2050-60 is a long time away, and the world could be a much more richer and peaceful place, with 80-90% being developed, so the market for FCAS will also change.
 
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randomradio said:
But 2050-60 is a long time away, and the world could be a much more richer and peaceful place, with 80-90% being developed, so the market for FCAS will also change.
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Climate change will mostly affect the developing countries, which are closer to the Equator. Food production will decline worldwide (due to climate change, but also the extinction of pollinating insects thanks to agriculture's love of pesticides, and the appearance of poison-resistant pests thanks also to the same thing); which will mostly hurt the developing world again since they're already net food importers.

It's really not going to be richer and more peaceful.
 
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Climate change will mostly affect the developing countries, which are closer to the Equator. Food production will decline worldwide (due to climate change, but also the extinction of pollinating insects thanks to agriculture's love of pesticides, and the appearance of poison-resistant pests thanks also to the same thing); which will mostly hurt the developing world again since they're already net food importers.

It's really not going to be richer and more peaceful.
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By the time the extreme events of climate change take place, most countries would already be as rich as Eastern Europe, or at least at $25000 per capita.

As for food production, the effects have been exaggerated. Especially 'cause predictions don't take into account technological advancements. The planet has the potential to grow 3-4 times the food we actually need. But most of that land is currently in developing countries in the hands of underdeveloped agri societies. So the world getting richer would mean industrialisation of agri even in developing countries. For example, India alone has the potential to feed 4-5 billion people every year with industrialisation, and that's just 10% of the total arable land in the world.

Then there's greenhouses and synthetic foods to take care of any deficiencies.
 
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Spain launches Halcon II follow-on buy of Eurofighter combat aircraft

Spain has officially launched its anticipated Halcon II follow-on buy of Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft, budgetary documents released by the government show.
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QinetiQ demonstrator cleared for testing fast jet radars and sensors | Shephard

QinetiQ has completed flight tests of its Avro RJ100 Airborne Technology Demonstrator (ATD) fitted with a combat aircraft nose system radome as part of a programme to test fighter aircraft radars and sensors.
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