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from being the later is now the best? 30000 pages is now a fue 100? and pointing towards rafale.. thats political. dont be so silly. open your eyes..

For god sake, thirty thousand pages !!! this is not a report, that’s the universalis encyclopedia in 30 volumes

If you’ve ever beleaved in this 30000 p. report there is nothing we can do for you.

Even a few hundred pages report is a lot for politicians.

30000p… geez…

interesting picture with the flare just before ignition :

picture time 🙂

from the new adla web site : http://www.defense.gouv.fr/air

3 meteor :

@Arthuro,
when later, with what funds and how many engineers were involved in the respective programmes? That there are no firm orders for equipping Typhoons or Gripens with an AESA radar doesn’t mean that Selex and others are “years behind” Thales as such. The platforms on the receiving side may see an AESA just years later, but that doesn’t mean that others than Thales are way behind in the development curve of the technology.

I wouldn’t say the problem is the technology.
IMHO the main problem is how your AESA radar should work WITHIN the aircraft which is mainly a question of software and inflight tests

http://www.aereo.jor.br/2010/06/12/tudo-o-que-voce-gostaria-de-saber-ou-nao-sobre-o-sobre-o-gripen-ng/

Gripen NG is now able to scoop 7200kg armaments….;)

Funny, in the 13th slide the bad guys are rafale 😀

its been offered for “them” to pay and develop one if they want it, not the same thing
i know AdA hasnt payed for development and they still havent, its an “essential” for them but not till 2020
20 years too late

Then, You will find interesting that both India and malaysia, paid for the integration of the thales topsight-E to their Mig-29K and Su-30…despite the fact that a russian HMS was already available.

Even more interesting is the fact that France rejected the topsight-E because the RF positionning system of the helmet could interfere with other EM fields of an aircraft carrier…(the sagem gerfaut was then selected because it uses an IR system)

As far as HMD is concerned, the french community is rather divided.
IMHO, it should have been a top priority, and should have been integrated before the ASMP-A (The amount of money swallowed by this “useless” missile is indecent 😡 ) and the reco-NG pod.

Never said that, and I didn’t bring the 1vs1 fight to the table, it was a rhetorical argument with wrightwing at first.

But if nobody uses their radars, I don’t see what the point of a stealth fighter is. I see it for a bomber or attack aircraft though.

Nic

The point of a stealth aircraft is that it can operate deep inside the ennemy airspace at high altitude with almost nothing to fear from SAM site.

A rafale can’t do that without risking to be shot at. So , it will rather sneak at low altitute between the SAM threat zones.

The hability of the F-22 to remain at high altitude undetected have several advantages :

– That increase the range of its AA and AG weapons
– That make it difficult to engage in A2A : a mach 1.8/60k feets target is very difficult to intercept even if you can see it with an IRST