Fly away price?!

fly away price of 3 million dollars? thats sweet! 😉

thanks for the info. any link that explains in any greater detail?

Links only in swedish and not in detail, so…
One can only speculate, until the investigation is through.
lock-in mechanism failed? hydralic pressure dropped at enginestop? thats would my amateur speculation.

any info on what happened to cause the Gripen emergency landing with its nose wheel broken off?

A fault indication made the pilot to do a emergency landing. The circumstanses made the pilot to turn off the engine directly on the runway after a full stop. And the nose wheel just popped up(not broken) when the engine died. The causes is to be investigated.

Sign, from the above list, with the exception of AESA radar, all other equipment are already present, or shall soon be installed on Tejas. Although TIDLS is already present in Su-30 MKI, plans for installing Tejas with it have not yet been announced by ADA.

I hardly doubed that.. TIDLS is a radiolink only operated by sweden.
Rated by many as the best in the world..

The other, the weight was discussed, the gripen systems known to be very lightweight..and can maybe be a help in reducing weight in Tejas. Because Tejas has avionics, it does not mean its lightweight..the total weight speeks for it self.
What i did reed was that it even has crt screens, if thats the tip of the isberg, it sound like alot hot analog and weighy systems to me.
And i haven´t heard of any 100kN+ engine..

http://www.radartutorial.eu/07.waves/wa16.en.html
http://www.radartutorial.eu/07.waves/wa17.en.html

Hope this helps

Nice link!

The article is biaised and sometimes plain wrong, but your assertion unfortunately also. The radar system of what is called Su-35 extremely powerful, and whereas the detection range against a F-35 is off course less than against a non-stealth opponent, it is nevertheless impressive enough and allows the Su to use its weapons way before entering a sure danger enveloppe. Weapon effectiveness will be the decisive factor here.
Depending on the Lightning II mission, it will either try to avoid the Su-35 altogether or call in Raptors for terminal fighting capabilities. The Lightning, as a fighter, is imho totally overestimated.

if you dont have the raptor on your team? (as all F-35 operators exept US)

More radar development

For radars 2013+ Saab Microwave Systems are cooperating with Selex and Elettronica in the program M-AESA.
“M” stands for multifunctional.
http://www.privataaffarer.se/nyheter/Pressmeddelanden/pressmeddelande.xml?intPressReleaseID=85468
the fruit from this program will be seen in gripen, sea and land radars.

Perhaps you should leave the theory in your lab an actualy use what you make and RIGHT you don’t know MAGIC and MICA either.

In short you have no idea of the real performances of these seekers and are still twising the point; IR seekers performance degrades WAY less than LASER…

Something else. AdA pilots uses to seak their tankers with Magic II before acquiering them visualy, this means that even so on paper and for guys like yourself Magic II seeker doesn’t do it, for a Mirage pilot it have BWR performaces in optimal conditions.

Because it was used to fire a MICA EM without the help of the radar and i don’t think this report is correct either.

Rangefinder is there from the traditional AdA F1/Jaguars equipements, certainly not for ranging MICA IRs.

Performances are NEAR-ALL-WEATHER since previous to 1999 with OSF development, get a grip with reality and stop taking your level of knowledge for a standard, some of us are actualy updated.:dev2:

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/1999/06/09/51953/seeker-gets-on-track.html

Otherwise said it is not “either” it IS the first multi-spectral system in service and have WAY higher performaces in humid conditions as this article says…

Looks like you dont read about French technologies since before 1999

You shouldnt be so sarkastic, this is a discussion. You have know idea. I have been in the loop on both mica and meteor.

Ok, they say they see “considerably better detection capability in humid conditions” in 3-5mn(hope they mean nm :)) Have not heard about a “window in IR band” that passes water without any absorbtion..but i will look in to it. “Considerably better” is not “Near-all-weather” buy all means…