Not according to these (official?) docs.

http://www.jsf.mil/downloads/documents/AFA%20Conf%20-%20JSF%20Program%20Brief%20-%2026%20Sept%2006.pdf

4 external hardpoints (pylons) with an additional external aam on each wing.

It may be 7 in total if you count the internal bays and gun on the B & C models.

I was refering to usable external hardpoints however, so i still believe that the number is four.

Could you please correct me if you have info that shows 7 external.

Have you actually read the document? Check out page 39!

I haven’t heard any mention of the Rafale/Typhoon/etc… putting in the IR cameras, providing 360 degree coverage, and projecting the imagery on the pilot’s helmet display.

Well 360° azimuth and elevation coverage isn’t given or planned, though it’s claimed that the new DDM NG will offer a surveillance capability next to its usual missile warning function. Whether it will work out in a EODAS like capability remains to be seen, but the system won’t offer the elevation coverage of the EODAS anyway. Presentation of FLIR imagery is possible with the Typhoon’s Striker helmet, but the FLIR FOV is limited to the forward hemisphere.

I can see that , even when the Typhoon is chasing Russian bombers around :
Strange , why that ? Why not having Amraams under the wings ?

Cheers .

There are AMRAAMs on the fuselage stations here. The QRA outfit for the RAF is as described by Toan. Italians are sometimes also using one AMRAAM on their QRA aircraft.

not carrying medium to long range missiles during routine CAPs is not wise , I disagree with such decision .

Interceptors on “Scramble” duty are loaded and ready to take off in less than 10 minutes , even less in critical times .
You don ‘t have time to load up anything , you just rush and take off .
Again , I don ‘t get it ?

Is the RAF so … loose ?
Or what else ?

In peace times there is usually not need to carry BVR missiles and as said the RAF does fit AMRAAMs to its QRA Typhoons. Training missions are a different matter and you can certainly simulate AMRAAM shots, whether you have AMRAAMs loaded or not.

I ‘ve just watched a French video on Red Flag and something has call my attention big time .
It seems that we fired IR Micas for real
Obviously , the targets were most probably drones (?) .

ROFLMAO, you can’t distinguish video footage from a video game from real HuD video? Even more funny as the HuD symbology is typical Russian, though with english markings instead of Cyrillic.

BW,
this thread was first and foremost created to discuss the events during and around the ATLC in the UAE and everything which is publically available has been discussed to death.

With regards to your questions:
1.) Typhoon’s are mostly operating in pairs, though this depends on the mission
2.) In most cases Typhoons carry two ASRAAM/IRIS-T and usually one, but sometimes to drop tanks
3.) Cross Eye is a jamming technique not a separate jammer. At least in theory the Typhoon’s ECM system should be able to do X-Eye jamming in the forward hemisphere, to do so in the rearward hemisphere would require another rearward facing jamming antenna and it appears that such an antenna is not present, this includes Italian Typhoon’s as well.

Its a pitty you can not read the thesis work once posted here (I think you remember).

Maybe I’m able to run it through a translation software, I still have it on my HD. It was that ~80 pages pdf if I recall correctly.

What we now need to know is which Ariel the Typhoon is using , is it still the Mk2 or the newest Mk3 ?

There are no newer information available, but given the fact that the Mk3 was already in the prototype stage back then I could imagine that it is in fact the version now found on production aircraft.

“a phased-array beam~steering device” , that ‘s sounds like an Aesa system

Phased array just indicates an electronic scanning device, this could be either PESA or AESA.

For your scenario it would highly depend on various factors, of course you can draw a scenario which favours your favorit plane, whether this would work out that way is a totally different question.

But to say that you cannot put a ‘weapon system’ including an IR missile or Guns on the F 22 you can see through the canopy is …………………. ILLOGICAL

Not that illogical at all. The F-22 is considerably more agile and manoeuvrable than the F-15. The statement could simply have meant that he wasn’t able to point his nose on the Raptor and was therefore unable to “put his weapons on it”.