(Hope they are not to big, I’ll edit and post links if so)

They have ordered Erieye AWACS to serve a intermin solution which delivery is imminent.

Long term wise they are in talks with SAAB about a latest iteration Erieye solution as well as talks about UAE funded further development of Erieye (360-degree radar coverage) and with Norhtrop with MESA (which seem to be in a good position).

I concur.. But the chances of RAFALE winning in INDIA is not very high either. .BRAZIL is a sure thing with LULA winning the next election in October.

Lula cannot win the election. He has already been elected for the max time possible. However, the same politcal party that he represents has a strong chanche of winning.

Anyhow, even if they don’t win that wont change a thing. Rafale has this in the bag.

Something along the lines of US “Have Slick” program would work perhaps?

in your dreams, lets see some links to back yourself, i have given dassault fox three links to where the aesa antenns is simply added to the 1995? PESA backend, only recently here
thales can do a decent radar if given the money, they havent been given the money

Ulta reliable radar did not use MMIC/GaAs. It is not comparable to any modern aesa radar.

I forgot to mention, if you want a read up on Thales TRMs and what they have in store you can read the fulltext version of their presentation from Microwave Technology and Techniques workshop 2008 here:
http://see.conference-services.net/resources/253/1452/pdf/RADAR2009_0256.pdf

They choose two Brazilian companies that have no previous work with high performance combat aircraft as partners. According the press releases, Akaer was supposed to do the Gripen wing project. This is not serious because the only previous Akaer experience with combat planes is the AT-29 Super Tucano, a turboprop attack-trainer aircraft. No one with some experience at military aviation affairs took this seriously. It is obviously a public relations statement to enhance SAAB position at Brazilian press. I know Akaer sent 20 engineers to SAAB to “participate” at Gripen development, but it also sent 20 engineers to Altran in France…

ATMOS, the Selex partner, only did meteorological radars. It was supposed to do, according SAAB’s releases, the air combat mode of the Raven radar. Obviously, it is not possible.

Allt this boo-hoo and yet they where ranked above Dassault and Boeing by the Brazilian air industry as well as in overall offsets. I wonder what happend there?

It seems to me that you think the brazilian industry is so inferior it is unable to grasp any new technology. That’s great. Might aswell skip ToT and offets then.