1) If gripen is out because it’s radar is not mature enough, I wonder how they assessed the eurofighter radar
2) If F-18 is out because of its engines, I guess gripen should be too?
To me, the extraordinary thing here is that anyone even mentioned Selex. What relevance does Selex & its capabilities have to modes in Rafale’s Thales radar?
The extraordinary thing is that people are dicussing a non-issue like wheter or not RBE2 can do ISAR. It’s about implementing an algorithm.
I don’t understand the fuss about Bragg Cell recievers. They are a legacy analog reciever used by many ECM suites and are being phased out in favour for digital recievers. A prime example of an ECM suite that are phasing them out is Spectra which is set to become all digital in the next(?) iteration.
Hoppefully news are good for this deal as well as upgrades for the 5th batch for the AdA with the funding of a stealth rafale demonstrator + spectar and RBE2 upgrades.
Are there any details how such a stealth rafale demonstrator would look like? Something like the F-15 Silent Eagle perhaps?
Yeah well, I think however you look at it, the chanche of this ending up in SAAB/Boeings favour is pretty much non-existant unless Dassault or Sarkozy&Co manages to f*ck something up radically.
That said I think its quite weird that the announcment gets pushed forward all the time
Those are not estimated in the study though. Only B-2 and F-117 is analyzed. But yeah, you are right, the b2/f-117 values might be totally of aswell. Their geometric models does not look super precise, so there might be a large margign of error there too. And whether or not their mathematical model for estimating RCS is correct, I have no clue. Just stumpled upon it by chanche when i was googling for info about f-117
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