Nothing. and its just one website where certain people participated. the sample sizes are
so small its laughable to draw conclusions about any country. infact I think its impossible to figure out what the is “average” level of a country in anything unless one covers all geographical areas and samples hundreds of thousands of people…just picking a few kids off a school in a city doesnt work.

small and rich countries like nordic states will always display a better average.
however their small population also restricts the amount of deployable quality people. and thats where large nations like US win the ‘war’

that gripen photo is digitally brightened to make it look good and those nice radar
displays arent the mode the LCA MFDs are in.

here’s a duller looking pic that may actually be that of a real gripen cockpit
http://www.canit.se/~griffon/aviation/img/saab/gripen/gall97/gripen-cockpit.jpg

imo LCA has done a good thing with the colour coded buttons. searching for the
right one among 20 black buttons in gripen under pressure doesnt look easy.

all the eurocanards have a a better HUD than LCA at present, but that can
be easily fixed if the IAF wants…sextant sells that wide-angle HUD.

the Block60 has the aesa advantage, inbuilt navigation pod & irst, plus a newer cockpit
and ecm probably. its like comparing 2 a/c about a decade apart in tech level. the CFT
also gives it better range?
real comp should be with a block50-52…again the CFT frees up two inner pylons
for munitions.

suppose the data is encrypted using a 2048 bit long AES private key. Can current technology break it ? I was reading even breaking a 512 bit AES keyed message is not feasible right now.

information tapping in electrical form is much easier. there will be optical repeaters
at places below the ocean..every 100-200km…at the landing points they become electrical signals to be demultiplexed and sent to various directions after reconversion to optical. So if the idea to catch faxes to the chinese embassy, why not just simplify the problem by simply
tapping it in the washington telephone exchange or ISP data center rather than prowling around trying to tap a cable with terabits of data hundreds of meters below the ocean ?

and how do they collect the data – does the jimmy carter rig up another
undersea cable to a shore point, does it stay there for months just listening
or leave behind a “hard disk array and computer” for pickup later. signals
cannot be transmitted fast from deep in water as the elf/vlf bandwidth limits show.

and a much more powerful radar.

does the USN Hawkeyes have onboard air controllers ? one modification to reduce weight
could be offload all the controllers and their equipment into the ship and transmit the
radar imagery via satellite.