AN/APG-79 also gives you lower probability of intercept.
True, but how´s that transforms itself in any significant advantage in a non LO/VLO airframe on a ATA scenario is anyone´s guess, right?
And nevermind that those EF´s and Rafale do have long range passive sensors that are not present on the SH, right?
At an airframe level the Super incorporates greater use LO features; things like edge alignment, serrated edges on major panels, along with the energy absorbent structures in the inlet tract and canted vertical surfaces.
Disputable, very, very disputable.
Every single item on that list of yours is present on the Rafale, and only the serrated edges are absent on the Phoon, and by the way, on another note ,how well does the frontal RCS of the SH behaves at supersonic speeds?
By then the vanes of the radar blocker´s should be entirely open…
Anyone who doesnt have acess to the RCS charts of the SH and the Euro canards his just guessing (badly).
And remember, for some strike missions it will carry JASSM; itself designed to be stealthy.
As for F-15SG. Yes its capable, but it LO?
Didnt understand neither of those two phrases, things like JASSM, Storm Shadow and Taurus are available for integration in every Western Combat Jet.
And that question about the F15SG being LO, is strange, the SH with ATG munitions under its wings is definitely not LO.
I think that you are overestimating the RCS reduction features on the SH by quite a margin.
Clean SH´s are detected, tracked and locked on a regular base at BVR distances by EPAF F-16 MLU using the old (and small) AN/APG-66V2. The SH is not a F-117, or a Raptor.
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