RAF Typhoons have been flying QRA with such a loadout ever since QRA was launched in 2007.

Kuwait won’t receive its first aircraft much before 2020.

Radar? You mean using its main radar has an offensive/Defensive EW asset?
If that was the question, the answer is no, the only “operational” fighter that i am aware that is described publicly has having such a capability is good old Dave (there are a few old slides from Boeing touting the APG-79 has having the potential to do such a role).
If the question is “does the Praetorian DASS uses active arrays in its ECM/EW suite” the answer is yes.

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EW capabilities are definitely part of the CAPTOR-E conception, but will be phased in in a staged manner and won’t be available from day 1.

I wish Air Forces Monthly and Combat Aircraft were searchable. There was an article on German Eurofighters during the last year that said Germany will install the latest software versions for tranche 2 and 3 aircraft. Why not? This is, however, not the same as training to use these weapons. As long as Germany has a low defense budget and keeps the Tornado on the front line, I cannot see them spending much money on ground attack training for Typhoon pilots.

The GAF has a fix requirement for A/S capability for the TLG 31’s NRF assignment from 1st January 2018 onwards. By then the unit must be operational in the A/S role which includes the German variant of the GBU-48 (different fuze opposed to the “standard” model). However integration is only planned for P1Eb FW which is still some months away from being cleared by GAF. Integration under a national clearance is underway. If everything goes well actual live trials can start in Q3.

It was used as a testbed for the AL-41F1 iirc. Anyone noticed the 101KS-U type sensor below the tail sting?

You are over complicating the issue significantly. There are many examples of nations that take small fleets of aircraft to foreign locations and have no problems generating mission sorties for days/weeks. The RAAF is an excellent example. They deploy 8-10 F/A-18s every year and sometimes twice to Butterworth in Malaysia for Five Power Defence Arrangements exercises. There are no spares or mission equipment held at Butterworth but somehow the RAAF can generate sorties for the two/three weeks of the exercise. They have sufficient comms at a deployed location to receive all the exercise mission information required, just as a deployed in the field squadron of Bee aircraft would.

All the Bee really needs in the field is deployed comms, fuel, ordnance and a very minimal load of spares/consumables. In the Israel context, we are talking about a combat deployment of aircraft to a dispersed location, a location that, given the size of Israel, is probably less than 150km from the parent base or an IAF logistics node.

I don’t think that you or TomcatVIP really understand what I’m talking about here and you two furthermore overrate my statement of “lets hope…”. That’s not a judgement at all.

Aircraft maintenance is a bit more complicate than laymen think and it’s typically regarded as one of the more boring aspects for those who don’t have any relationship to it.

I’ll leave it at this.

They managed to operate their F4E from austere basing in the desert in 1968 at an incredible sortie rate, with some airframes even decommissioned from the USAF and hastily flown in Israel, I don’t have the slightest doubt that they will do perfectly fine with the Bee.

Sometime you are showing a surprisingly miserable lack of imagination in your comments. We are talking about a nation at war since its inception with an entire society structured to support their armed forces. This is not Monaco buying fighter jets!

This is 2016 and not 1968! Aircraft have considerably grown in complexity and require a lot of support equipment these days. Flight line and second line maintenance is still performed at unit level, anything beyond that is either performed by industry or at specific locations (depots). On an F-4 you bolted on a metal sheet when the airframe was damaged that’s not going to happen on an F-35 or any other modern combat aircraft anymore. And there is still a difference between operating from an airbase somewhere in the desert and from some remote locations somewhere in nowhere.

My fault, only looked at the table, not the additional piece above. It demonstrates nonetheless how difficult it can be to accurately estimate costs over such prolonged periods with all those uncertainities that no one can really predict.