For a test program you want stable and proven engines, that’s kind of the whole point. Therefore I’m pretty confident that the kaveri will not be chosen, as it it pretty much how far away from stable and proven as you can get.

Cool down abit. Ofcourse rafale will carry meteor, anyone stating anything different is just ridicilous. That said, it’s hard to find simething negative about having a two-way link already? Thats equally ridicilous.

My personal opinion is that the next three year will be decisive for the future of SAAB on the fighter market. They have a good product offering a good performance/price compromise but lack the political clout to make the difference in the end. That is why I am not so optimistic. The anecdotic good press release may act like a smoke screen for some but they should take a birds eye view of the situation instead of doing this perpetual pissing contest. Competition is already hard with two competitors in Brazil and Switzerland imagine with five in India…Especially on a political standpoint.

If you really want to asses a situation without rounding in circles in sterile specs debate you really should take a bird eye view and take into account all factors.

Agreed, with all gripens delivered to the swedish airforce, saab will have to get some export contracts going if they want to stay in the fighter business

Like it or not , being able to build an AESA technology demonstrator in 2010 is not really an achievement … 😉

RBE2 is not futher along the way than Selex radar, both are in the software validaiton phase. The difference is Selex is & has for years been selling fighter aesa radars, whereas thales have not.
To my knowlede both of them use T/R modules designed by UMS by the way.

Ever use a mirror to flash sunlight around?

Whats the RCS disadvantage compared to horizontal aft-tail?

I also like how you conveniently left out the RCS disadvantages of a canard on both of those deltawings.

What is the disadvantage with canards from an RCS point of view?

No, it was selected because Thales simply dropped out because of Dassault pressure. Thales was the prefered partner all along.

The preffered choice was an own designed atenna with SiGe T/R modules but it was deemed to risky to be completed in time for the ongoing procurements.

Selex and SAAB have a close relationship and share for instance the M-AESA R&D project.
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