Why not put em in T-50 LE flaps?
Perhaps if they angled them within the LEVCON that would afford a greater field of IFF coverage – to encompass that of the X-band side array radars.
For example, here the SIT-426 active E-scan IFF is fitted to the sides of the Raven AESA:
XTX-Horus, perhaps MadRat is correct. Most aerogels are radar transparent – thus facilitating RF transmission & reception (in this case for the AESA IFF).
The T-50-5’s original installation:
After automated placement of dry fibre tapes, completed wing and wingbox structure layups are processed using the Thermo Infusion Automated Center (TIAC), which reportedly enables very precise process control, including temperature uniformity of ±2°C up to 270°C/518°F and porosity levels of less than 0.5 percent.
Note how they’ve successfully upscaled the technology from the experimental to operational:
A World first and certainly the ‘bleeding edge’ of PMC production.
It makes the question mark glow different colours…
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