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  • in reply to: Saab Gripen & Gripen NG thread #3 #2225235
    Amiga500
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    Saab official data about Gripen NG now cites an empty mass of 8.0 tonnes (page 3 of the PDF) :

    Anyway, 8.0 tonnes are more than 10% higher than 7.1 tonnes expected (and promoted) in 2008-2013 by Saab.

    7.1 tonnes is the weight of the 2 seater C/D.

    Where have Saab been promoting the NJ as weighing 7.1T?

    in reply to: F135 vs F136 #2225452
    Amiga500
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    Fraud is a strong word

    But appropriate.

    If the supplier is knowingly not delivering parts or materials that meet or exceed specification, then they are guilty of fraud.

    in reply to: Boeing Launches 737 MAX 200 With Ryanair #488994
    Amiga500
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    A ‘Game changer’?

    Relative to what is on the market now, yes.

    Relative to what will be on the market then… not so much.

    in reply to: Boeing Launches 737 MAX 200 With Ryanair #488997
    Amiga500
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    Airliners and other non-sport aircraft seem to be immune to any “let’s make it look ‘cool’ ” school of thought.
    Besides, airlines seem to only judge aircraft by their bottom line, not design lines.

    If that were true, there wouldn’t be the current fad with composites for PSEs where they are wholly inappropriate when used as a “black metal”.

    [Next gen composites with CNF in the resin will be a different ballgame, but the current crop should have been largely bypassed.]

    in reply to: Stealth fighter effectiveness in SEAD , DEAD #2226001
    Amiga500
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    It isn’t with one aircraft doing the sensing.

    That might have been the case 25+ years ago.

    in reply to: Stealth fighter effectiveness in SEAD , DEAD #2226003
    Amiga500
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    i dont get it , even at the first turn because the target is constantly moving at significant speed then angle will change constantly how is it even possible to triangulate ?

    Because you know your speed and your heading.

    You can predict where the target should be relative to you if it were stationary and then work from there calculating the difference.

    This is ongoing continuously*, with a greater time period the refinement of the target location becomes better and better.

    *its not a case of look now… wait 20 seconds and look again. If the target aircraft makes a manoeuvre when you are in steady level flight, the ECM system will register the adjustment in bearing-change rate and factor the ongoing calculations accordingly.

    in reply to: Stealth fighter effectiveness in SEAD , DEAD #2226006
    Amiga500
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    As the published papers from the last two MBDA exhibition/conference events show, the concepts in question have all been tested by research involving experimental hardware, so are mature enough to make the transition to a formal development programme should this be required. So they are hardly dreaming.

    Agh, misunderstood.

    Anyone reading the papers can dream of what they would do – but they won’t have the tools, knowledge and processes to actually implement their dream.

    (Unlike in this instance MBDA, who do have the means.)

    in reply to: Stealth fighter effectiveness in SEAD , DEAD #2226034
    Amiga500
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    can you explain how ? like the principal of the method

    Its just geometrics. There isn’t much more to it.

    Old ESM couldn’t do it as they didn’t have the memory to retain enough “historical” data and didn’t have enough processing power to build the track from that.

    Taking your diagram, if you do one turn, you can locate a stationary target after x seconds to triangulate.

    If you do a second turn, you can plot the track of a moving target* given a further y seconds. [Note that in doing this, the ESM will realise its original estimation for the target location was wrong, but will use the data as a basis for calculating the track. From which comes speed, range and altitude.]

    *assuming that the target is on a constant track at a constant speed.

    If the target is maneuvering, then it becomes more complex, thus requiring more time… but its still far from impossible.

    in reply to: Stealth fighter effectiveness in SEAD , DEAD #2226144
    Amiga500
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    Submarines are very slow, as are their targets. Non-equivalent comparison.

    Indeed.

    Its much harder to get range and speed for a slowly moving target from a slowly moving platform.

    in reply to: Stealth fighter effectiveness in SEAD , DEAD #2226146
    Amiga500
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    Obviously companies will have a huge amount of data on recent developments on file. But some can be quite bold in publicising their advanced R&D concepts. MBDA regularly holds exhibitions to publicise many of the future concepts it is studying.

    Processes, tools and data.

    Concepts don’t matter a crap – anyone can dream.

    in reply to: Stealth fighter effectiveness in SEAD , DEAD #2226234
    Amiga500
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    I do not think that is a fair generalisation.

    Now, now… that is a subtle twist on what I said.

    By all means, what is in the public domain may well be as much information as competitors/intelligence agencies have on a particular item/subject.

    But that is not typically as much information as is held internally by the company developing the product in question.

    [As before, this applies to particular fields and is not a broad brush.]

    in reply to: Stealth fighter effectiveness in SEAD , DEAD #2226249
    Amiga500
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    do you think it possible for an ESM system ( RWR ) on an aircraft to determine range and speed of an enemy aircraft ?

    Of course it is!

    Not with a second of tracking data, but given a reasonable time frame and choice manoeuvres from the sensing aircraft it is absolutely 100% possible.

    Anyone that thinks otherwise is totally brain-dead and should be utterly ignored forthwith.

    in reply to: Stealth fighter effectiveness in SEAD , DEAD #2226253
    Amiga500
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    Academic articles are only reliable if written by an author with a good track record in the relevant field.

    Not to forget; in particular fields, public domain (which academia is) state-of-art lags years behind industrial state-of-art.

    in reply to: Stealth fighter effectiveness in SEAD , DEAD #2226949
    Amiga500
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    If it regarded an important engineering aspect

    This doesn’t.

    [But your answer is in general the right thing to do. You are obviously not as naive as you appear in some of the threads.]

    in reply to: Stealth fighter effectiveness in SEAD , DEAD #2227014
    Amiga500
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    Yup.

    if you picked up the phone and asked someone a quickfire question*, you’d expect them to write you up a memo?

    *questions of work scope are obviously not included.

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