So, no stealth fighters, bombers and UCAVs till this day have canards. You say it’s a coincidence, I say it’s a fact.

You argumententing cum hoc ergo propter hoc. It is as valid argument as:
Every fat person sleeps during the night, therefore you get fat by sleeping.

But Gripen NG is not powered by the RM12. The RM12 is a variant of the F404. NG has the F414, in a version with far less Swedish content.

Yes ofcourse, but that does not stop technology from RM12 to be transferred now does it?
There seems to be a consensus that no engine related technology from Gripen can be transferred and my point was only to show that that might not be the whole story.

It is extremely “heartening” to note that at Bharat Rakshak forums the current Tejas Mk.1 is being repositioned as an equivalent to the Gripen C/D in all respects, like avionics, weapos load, etc..

How about agility?
Instantanoues/Sustained turn rate? What AoA limit does Tejas have? Low speed handling?

And signature? How does it measure in regards to RCS/IR signature?

From my understanding the ir-otis is not in development any more and is in it’s current shape not up to par with for ex PIRATE

Could you please translate it ? I found that Swedish to English translators are very very poor on the web..

Rough quick translation 🙂 :

Bofors hopes for new Indian aqusition

Weaponsmanufactor Bofors is hoping for a future sale of weapons to India.
The deal is valued over 14 billion SEK (swedish crowns). As of now a deal has been signed to develop the technical cooperation with India. Karlskoga-Kuriren writes that the eventual order is about a new artillery system.
During the 80ies India bought weapons from Bofors for roughly 8 billion SEK. This lead to the so called Bofors scandal where the company was accused of bribing it’s way to secure the deal, however, the investigation was closed down by the prosecutor.

Wrong don’t mistake IRIS-T for ASRAAM. The IRIS-T seeker is designed by Diehl BGT Defence.

I might be off on this, but I recall SAAB bofors dynamics part in the iris-t project having to do with the seeker as well.

Anyhow, I’m ofcourse cheering for Gripen to take this contract home, but rafale sure is one great plane, imho a notch better than SH.

Airplanes go to battle in groups, never singly. With NCW sensor sharing, there is no reason for rotating arrays. If there was a need, F-22 would have implemented the side arrays to increase FOV.

Are they scrapped or planned for a block further down the road? I can imagine some cooling issues with side arrays, but if/when implemented that setup should be superior to the swashplate.

F-35 isn’t F-117. There has been significant RCS technology advancement in access panels so they open and close as quickly as non-LO access panels and do not require goop, putty or butter to restore RCS.

Okay, thats what I was thinking as well, but spudmans response seemed to imply otherwhise…