@Nic
Que veux-tu que je te dise de plus que ce qui est déjà accessible partout,
à savoir que le RBE2 fait le changement de mode en à peine plus d’une seconde!
De Dassault et de Thalès, l’on sait déjà que l’AESA apportera la possibilité
de changer fréquences et modes plusieurs fois par seconde.
Tu as bien raison avec BlueWings pour ce qui a trait aux cibles mobiles!
Mais… depuis le standard F2, le RBE2 fait du air-sol, c’est écrit partout!!!

Au hasard :
http://www.rafale-marine.com/fiches_techniques/evolutions.php

Mais en un anglais que tu devrais comprendre, ça se trouve aussi :

Electronically Scanned Array
The RBE2 was designed from the outset with an electronically scanned array (ESA). For years, the Rafale team touted the technical advantages for a multirole combat jet of an ESA versus a mechanically scanned array, such as the ability to switch seamlessly between air-to-air and air-to-ground tasks. The French air force and navy were finally convinced. Team Rafale is now emphasizing to export customers the additional performance and redundancy offered by the active array and the relative ease of upgrading the RBE2 with the new technology.

de ce bel article http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article/france-plays-the-long-game-for-dassault-rafale-exports-22859/

Rafale F2, designed for the French Air Force and Navy, is the first multi-role aircraft. It supports additional air-to-ground, air-to-surface and low-altitude penetration features, as well as the Forward Sector Optronics System (FSOS), MIDS tactical data link and the new EMTI computer. F2 will enter operational service this year and undergo trials on the first outfitted aircraft.

de chez http://www.thalesgroup.com/Pages/PressRelease.aspx?id=4111

BTW, and to rejoin our “co-forumers” in the appropriate language
for the place and in respect to the subject of this thread, it seems
that the first AESAs will arrive before the end of tranche 3, with
the number 34 instead of the 37th.

And for PPP, small thing I found on the old HD, to show the Spectra
fields : http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1210/1368332779_1c36d41a81_b.jpg

Also, the whole Spectra suite with the two parts located on the flat section
by the “exhausts” being chaps and flares dispensers and the rest sensors
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7774/oldsoak.jpg .

As for Swerve, send whomever denies Selex AESA tech right here :
http://www.selex-sas.com/SelexGalileo/EN/Business/Products/Radar/index.sdo

where they will see the nice Pico one that flies on their Falco UAV….
amongst all the others, LOL.

Good day all, Tay.

OK. On a civil tone, no problem!

Well, your last quote is as valid as they come!
This from the A&C I quoted 2 pages back seems to make more sense though :

d’autres capacités, telles que le brouillage ou même la liaison de données par le biais du radar. L’ajout de ces modes “exotiques” exigerait surtout des modifications logicielles.
Non requises pour l’heure par le client français, ce sont probablement les premiers clients export du Rafale, Émirats en tête,

“…other capacities such as jamming or a datalink by way of the radar.
Not called for, as of now, by the french client, it is probaly going to be for the
first export clients, mainly the UAE….”

I won’t sent General Silvy packing ( I can’t actually as I am still on reserve for two more years and would get trounced for it, chances are, LOL! )
but the second quote makes more sense.
Unless the article is from an interview that took place before the advent of the F3 standard?

Tay.

@ Scorpion

I haven’t read it before,

Well, you should have before writing that post accusing me of
exactly the same thing, shouldn’t you have?

Then, you would not have been called for it! So that here :

Be careful who you call a troll Monsieur!

as up there, it remains your problem really!

Re-read that previous piece of smug idiocy of yours in the light
of me already having answered and ask yourself how good you
are again!

OH! And about warning me, I hope that you mean that you will
send your local men in black….

NOW! For what counts, PPP, mate, I won’t dispute that :

You mean the German/French one? From a brief look it seems like two halves of the same foundry.

but could we find more about it? I’ll look if you look, LOL.

As far as the cheek arrays thing, of course not a radar by themselves,
however do remember that not including the small DDM window,
there are yet four Spectra inclusions on the front of the Rafale.
So that if the GaN delivers, it would still be useful!

Here is a snippet from Thales where they say that the arrays can
do long-range detection:

Thales and Electronic Warfare

Spectra

The Rafale is equipped with the Spectra electronic warfare system, giving the aircraft a multispectral threat warning capability against hostile radars, missiles and lasers. This system is fully integrated into the Rafale for excellent survivability against air and ground threats.

Spectra also contributes to passive tactical situation awareness, all-weather long-range

detection, identification and location of threats, within a short response time. The system’s cutting-edge defensive measures are based on combinations of omni-directional AESA jamming, multi-band decoying and evasive manoeuvres, as well as on state-of-the-art technologies such as Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM) signal processing.

Spectra’s angular location on the aircraft allows it to locate ground threats, to target them for destruction with precision-guided munitions, or to avoid them. Its threat library – which can be defined, integrated and updated on short notice by users in the home country – is instrumental to this performance. As operations unfold, protection onboard the Rafale can be continuously and fluidly enhanced using the system.

Thales and Mission Systems

Modular Data Processing Unit (MDPU)

Enough growth potential has been built into the Rafale to ensure that its design maintains warfighting relevance for several decades. The Modular Data Processing Unit (MDPU) is the cornerstone of this avionics/ weapon upgradeability. Its modular architecture makes for a system that is highly adaptable, allowing straightforward integration of new avionics or new ordnance.

Sensor data fusion draws on the computing power of the MDPU to process data from the AESA RBE2 radar, the Front-Sector Optronic system, the SPECTRA system, the IFF, the missile seekers and the data-link (L16 or custom).

From : http://www.thalesgroup.com/Pages/NewsArticle.aspx?id=11665

Admittedly though, this long-range may be relative, ya know, Ads!

Read you later, Tay.

Thank you, Sintra!

I was wrong thinking there was but one foundry but
it still means that the ability to produce an AESA* is
there awaiting production! * ( For combat A/Cs )

Tay.

En attaque à la mer, le RBE2 délivre à grande distance une analyse de la situation tactique avec identification et classement des cibles et permet le tir de missiles type Exocet hors des systèmes de défense surface-air.

In sea attacks, the RBE2 delivers at great distance an analysis of the tactical situation with identification and classification of targets and allows the firing
of Exocet type missiles out of suface-to-air defensive systems!

Tay trans. OR :

En déphasant les signaux émis, le faisceau d’onde mobile permet de suivre jusqu’à 40 pistes très éloignées les unes des autres (dont 8 avec poursuite renforcée à 100 km de distance) avec identification Friend or Foe (IFF) automatique et de basculer presque simultanément du mode air-sol au mode air-air ;

By dephasing emitted signals, the mobile wavebeam can follow up to 40 tracks spread very far apart ( including 8
with reinforced tracking at 100km ) with the automatic IFF and to switch almost simultaneously from AtG mode to
AtA ;

Tay trans.
Là :

http://www.armees.com/armees/armee-de-l-air-387/materiel-426/le-dassault-rafale,34602.html?debut_article_derniers_articles2=9&artpage=3-5

TMor has the same infos on his free.forum. And many others as :

Fire on High

The Thales RBE2 radar is of the passive electronically-scanned-array (ESA) type, like the B-1’s Northrop Grumman APQ-164, with a single power source, transmitter, receiver, and a physically fixed array of phase-shifter modules to steer the beam. The radar has a single beam – unlike the active ESA used on the F-22 and JSF – but it can be pointed instantly in any direction so that it can use a wide variety of interleaved modes. Dassault describes it as the difference between “track while scan” and “track here while scan there.” For example, the RBE2 can readily track airborne targets while searching for a target on the ground or providing a ground profile for terrain-following flight.

from here :
http://www.fighter-planes.com/info/rafale.htm

So for the last time too, it DOES NOT do so by laying down a red twine
to and fro the phoquing boat and bringing it back to the CV for measurement!

Good professional nitpicking, Tay.

OOOh! Wait, I just got it. You’re so very right!
The RBE2 can’t designate targets to the AM39!
We use only OSF so we just don’t shoot Exocets on rainy days!

Darn! How did I miss that!

Good day all.

So if that is you Scorpion, how come :

on a SAR map? Can it simultaneously acquire AA and AG targets? From what is know there is still a lot of room for more interleaving!

And this below from the attachment seen previously!?

What made you change your mind?

Tay.