September 10, 2003 at 5:47 am
lets have a great comparison in multiple aspects of capabilities within these two aircraft!
RCS: Gripen relies on its physical small ness while the Rafale relies on its semi stealthy airframe
Radar: The rafale is supposed to be better with its ESA but the Gripens radar is more developed.. the Gripen has extensive data linking while the Rafale radar can do interleaved scans due to it radar
load: both are good
range: Rafale flies farther than the Gripen
costs: Gripen hands down, everything french seems to cost an arm and a leg.
cockpit layout: hard to choose.. the Gripen relies on preventing information overload but the Raffies cockpit is a bit different, it seems to have touch screen displays and holographic images (something like that)
so what do you experts think?