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found in some presentation
 

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THANKS!!!!!!!! This seems to be a part of FACE program - the primary thing, that I want to ask about at the Le Bourget.
 
Very interesting ! :)

I didn't know the first, the third and the fifth

It was told about the second here : http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=162.0
I saw the fourth, probably in the weekly french magazine Air & Cosmos

Was the fifth designed before or after the second ?
 
The fourth is a Dassault file shown on Air & Cosmos n°1764 from 29/09/2000. It's a study for the project AVE (Aeronef de validation experimentale = aircraft for experimental validation ?) UAV.

The project foresaw a mix operational flight with one Rafale to command any AVE-UAVs.
 
AVE reduced scale model

(source: AW&ST October 2000)
 

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FACE concept from AWST February 2000

according to the test, FACE was a light fighter which could complement the Rafale and Typhoon by 2018
 

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Does anybody know why gull wings are surposed to be stealthy (as in Flateric's forth image and the Boeing Bird of Prey)?

Cheers, Woody

PS. Thanks for the pictures.
 
Probably it (just one wing ;)) is used as some sort of compensation of the missing vertical tail surfaces and for the better directional stability.
 

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