Thales will never leave anyone shoot pix of sensitive systems! they have a team to build fake mock up for age, neither privide any diameter or number of mmics !

Provide me a source on Thales security policy showing clearly that they practice this, or did you just assuming it/make it up?

they are the most advanced electronic manufacturer in europe with the biggest R&D budget and 22.000 ingeneers (3 times the whole Selex worforce) ..
they would be the lastest to fail at efficiency !

Source showing Thales has 22,000 engineers please. Also, since you compare to Selex, I’d like a source showing particularly how many are electrical/electronic engineers and how many are involved in radar systems 😎

Sounds like you were dumped by your ex doesn’t it ppp? You clearly have anti-Scottish views which are at best ill-advised, at worst bordering on offensive. I would suggest that your views on Scottish airfields are biased to such an extent as be worthless.

No, I did the dumping, nice prejudgement though. My views aren’t “anti-Scottish”, my views are if you aren’t happy, then leave, don’t expect me to be begging you to stay, its not going to happen. And you would suggest that, you’re Scottish, furthermore I would suggest your views are three times as worthless since you are biased, nationalist and prejudgemental.

Well we don’t hear any bitching about Wittering or Cottesmore closing despite being in the same rural of England with a similar impact on job losses. So the actual thread is somewhat biased !:diablo:

Are you suggesting that England is entitled to the same level of protection from government cuts are Scotland? :-O

Not T-50

I would propose:

– Flat Screen TVs in a common area, extra comfortable beds, laptop and ipod connections and similar things to make it easier to have troops onboard for longer periods.

– Hangar over the first helicopter spot for long term helicopter deployment

– Sea-RAM on the hangar

Don’t forget Scotland has 10% of the taxpayers, so we have a 10% stake in the UK’s armed forces. Why shouldn’t we have 10% of the airbases, and all the revenue and local prosperity that brings?
Don’t forget that if we leave the UK, we’ll be taking over 90% of present and future oil revenues with us…

And under the governments plan for a 140 fast jet air force, Scotland is entitled to be home to 14 aircraft, around 1 squadron. Currently Scotland has rather more than that, so why do they deserve extra?

As for the oil, you’re welcome to whats on your side, I’d happily trade a few oil fields to be rid of the continuous bitching from the Scots about how they are special, and how their culture is so much more important blah blah ect. Still, it seems most Scots don’t really like the idea of being independent it seems, though that doesn’t stop the vocal minority in their kilts crying for independence as if they were a majority.

I think it’s material with some special RF properties used on edges and they do it only in this light-medium greyish color. Same as on the F-22, maybe a touch darker.

On the edges of the intakes and on the leading edges of the wings?

Thats radar absorbant materials IIRC, you can see it on Typhoon too…

In which case, some kind of magnetic metal like iron mixed in with some kind of silicon or perhaps carbon fibre, unless they have developed a better way, which they probably have 😎

While I’ m here ,
Erkokite :

The AdlA says that it has more to do with SA (situation awareness) but they also said that the RCS factor was part of the equation .
Personally , I don ‘t think that the RCS difference is that big but the AdlA knows better than I do .

This is one thing that has never been proven , sorry to say .
One can find may BS internet sites who give the range vs RCS for many radars but they don ‘t have a bloody clue anyway . Did they call every radar manufacturer and ask for the classified data ???
From what we heard here and there from the users , the Captor seems to have a slightly better range than the RDY (M2000) which is quoted by Dassault with a 150km range against a fighter size target .
The PESA RBE2 is said to have a similar range than the RDY .
So , the Captor seems to have a slightly better range than the PESA RBE2 .
But by how much ???
As you said :

Indeed .
Range is not the most important factor while being very important .
If one can read in between the lines , the various Rafale/Typhoon meetings went down to who shoot first .
Whatever the RoE are , more often than not they are on the Rafale ‘s side simply because our pilots can identify the threat first , thanks to the long range TV cam .
Also , maybe Spectra can read Captor very early while Pirate is having a hard work with the RBE2 …

Cheers .

There is a LOT more proof about Typhoons superior radar than there is about Rafale having a lower RCS. The Typhoon manufacturers claim Typhoon beats the Rafale in RCS, yet you disregarded that, and took France’s claim instead, then have to cheek to whine about another member’s radar claim “lacking proof”.

Also, do you have a source for this radar range claim of yours? It needs to state as you claim 150km tracking range against a fighter sized target, not “Maximum Range”, since that could be detection range against an A380 with a big flat plate stuck on the nose 😎

Finally, to cap it all, you say that the PIRATE (Passive Infra Red Airborne Track Equipment) is going to struggle to track the RBE2, a radar. This is really rather surprising, since not so long ago you were telling me how you are much more qualified than me in the field of electronic warfare, yet you don’t seem to the know the difference between an electronic warfare system and an infrared tracking system… :rolleyes:

Oh, but even though you don’t know what the system is, you definately know the French one is better 😀

Or the full title (assuming this does not break copyright rules), as if we use Google we can see the article.

You need the title to be able to be able to cite it, so I’d guess the title would be fair use, same with the author’s name, the date, organisation ect 🙂