Have you noticed the new gun gas exhaust ?

Thanks for the pics BTW.

It’s difficult to believe that the AdlA would have accepted to buy 180 of these equipments and spent tens of millions on them if they were so inefficient :rolleyes:
Where does this rumor come please ?

Your source only states they were not directly affected which we already knew, however if you think having your mission planning software fail is fine and dandy you are most welcome to, most others would think its a minor disaster if it means the jets cannot do what they were desinged to do. No amount of spinning can make this right, just accept the fact the were caught out badly, it screwd the flying up and that they need to be far better prepared to meet cyber threats in future.

You only read the sources that suit you, don’t you ?

The navy spokesman formally denied that the Rafale were grounded.

What about the F22 which were not able to cross the time line ?

I certainely doubt the NG will be cheaper than the C/D model, if only because of inflation; lets first see if it is ever produced.

I have question regarding the defensive system: is there any laser warning sytem on any Gripen version?

A new very informative piece about RBE2 active and Rafale’s combat system capabilities :

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/11/10/318499/new-radar-could-
boost-rafales-export-prospects.html

Few excerpts :

Meanwhile, the Rafale’s ability to shoot down an enemy aircraft using only passive detection was demonstrated for the first time in October, says Chaltiel. Two aircraft flew “several miles apart”, the first using electronic support measures to monitor the target and communicate its track via Link 16 datalink to the second Rafale.

The second aircraft also passively tracked the target using its infrared search and track system and was able to achieve a lock-on by sending “a few pulses” from its laser rangefinder. The enemy aircraft was then “shot down” using an MBDA “Mica-type” air-to-air missile with an active seeker that became effective at a range of around 18km (10nm), says Chaltiel.

“It is possible now to have a fully passive detection capability and shoot down enemy aircraft without transmitting a single emission from the aircraft,” says Chaltiel.

This illustrates that Rafale can locate and monitor aircrafts accurately enough to send its coordinates by passive means only.
This also confirms that the laser rangefinder is used to achieve the accuracy in range necessary for target designation. I still rememeber Fonck/LordAssap pretending, with such sufficience :rolleyes: , that it was not necessary and that OSF could designate target w/out any laser emission. (dream on) maybe this could teach him some degree of humility (dream off)
Also the range of MICA RF seeker is disclosed for the first time although we don’t know if it is the max range possible or a preset range depending on tactical situation.

This seems to be a unique capability of the Rafale as far as I know, is there any other combat system able to do that ?

The little problem in technolgie transfer what I see, Thales is not the owner.
The T/R-modules came from UMS Ulm Germany (Thales/EADS) and use patents from Fraunhofer/Germany.:rolleyes:

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United Monolithic Semiconductors (UMS) was created in 1996, as a joint venture of Thales and EADS, to provide a European source of III-V technologies and products.

The Company has industrial facilities in Ulm, Germany and Orsay, France (headquarters), and sales offices in Totowa NJ,USA and Shanghaï, China.
In 2007, the head-count was 240 people, for sales of 41M€, serving four main markets around the world.

The MMIC are produced in France in the Orsay plant.

http://www.ums-gaas.com/ums-plants.php

And can you show us the patent

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Leading surfaces of the Rafale still produce a lot of specular reflection

Well how do you know the effectivity of the radar absorbing material in the centimetric wavelength range just by eye ?