Don’t forget that a VLO platform will severely hamper the active homeing range of missiles just like it does for ground and airborne radars.

Be prepared for that 16 mile range to turn to 2-3.

Then throw in the active jamming from the -81 and you are likely to see some serious physical damage to the seeker.

Physical damage to the missile seeker? By the AN/APG-81?!
If the AN/APG-81 can inflict physical damage to an Aster seeker, then AMDR will boil, cook and serve on a plate “a l’oignon” an entire sqn of Flankers plus the unfortunate band of wild geeses that might be passing on a 100 miles radii round an AB flight III.

Off topic. Is it possible for Eurofighter have over-the-wing pylons for drop tanks? It will free up 2 heavy hardpoints under the wings for the 2000lb laser bombs instead of drop tanks. Just to have 5 heavy hardpoints like the Rafale.

If you are thinking of drop tanks like the ones on the old BAC Lightning the answer is no, if you are thinking on CFT’s like the ones on the Viper 50/52/60, the answer is yes. The T3A Phoon’s are already plumbed for it, now it’s a question of whatever customer who’s interested to sign a contract with Eurofighter for the final development and acquisition of those CFT’s.

Given the rising equipment costs that 2% GDP hardly represents sufficient to maintain what we have.

“Maintain what we have” is vastly better than every major review since 1990 Options for Change.
Very recently the RAF was looking at a full complement of 5.5 fast jet sqn’s around 2025 (and another 0.5 sqn for the RN).

That is incorrect, the F-35 range specifications are not hi-hi. They were altered from what was believed to be hi-lo-lo-hi to some mix of high, med,

No

oooh and 2% GDp commitment in the budge- Defence is effectively ringfenced! Its a positive cashfest at the MOD:angel:

I´ll be da***d!! Oo
Its true, its the first time that the UK defense budget will have an actual increase in (how many?) decades?!
Boeing might has well start building a few P-8´s…

UMS is a fundry a tool for Thales and Airbus

Thales R&D use it to his own products, doesn’t share it with competitors, especially when its classified as X band airborn mmics and not general purpose chips !

Look, Catia design tool CAD is used by boeing and airbus, it doesn’t share final product !

Do i really have to remind you that a few posts ago you didnt knew what UMS was and thought that Selex was buying its MMICS/TRM´s in the USA?
The development work on MMICS/TRM´s is done by UMS mainly at Villebon, the production center is at Ulm. The development work of MMICS/TRM´s is shared (mainly) between France and Germany, the exact arragements between the main shareholders are not public.
If you want to learn there are a few chaps around here who have quite a lot of knowledge, talk with them, start with the likes of Hallowene, Kovy, Tmor for your favorite aircraft and then Scorps, Jwcook and BIO for the aircraft of this topic.
On the MMICS/TRM´s/Gaas/GaN development in Europe there exists quite a lot of information on the net, start your search with “Project Korrigan”.
If you just want to troll around, find yourself another topic.

it seems gaas mmics US builder , manufactoring for selex doesn’t wanna sell to europeans Gan technologies !

so , selex would have very expansive upgrade to get new partner !

Oh look a troll!
We’ve been needing one in this topic like… tooth pains…
A) There are two foundry’s in Europe who already mass produce GAAN mmics, one of them, the biggest, UMS, is fifty percent owned by EADS Germany, the chaps who are providing gaas (together with Selex) mmics for Euroradar.
B) The gas’s mmics used by Selex are produced in good old Great Britain in the old qinetiq foundry
C) If you don’t have a *********g clue about the topic, either ask the other participants or don’t write at all

– The “pumpkin helmet”: nobody that has ever seated in the jet could have said that – see the pic above

I am not exactly an expert, and i´ve never been in an F-35 cockpit, but thats the third time that i´ve saw it being written, and just looking at the photos bellow i cant fail to notice that the head rest is pretty high by comparison with the Viper and thats a biggggg helmet.
I am going to wait on this one.
Cheers