FA50 and Teja share the same engine and radar. Teja will certainly move to the more powerful 414 version and an AESA (2052 or other). Teja has long range missile and some capacities that the FA50 has not in A2G. All in all, the Indian aircraft appears to have more bang for the buck.

F1 where too pricey and once again left the ArAF soldering on outdated engine. When you have a small fleet you want to ensure a high mission rate and the engine is central into that.

Teja MK1 A 😉

Russia hands over missing radar data

Today in FlightGlobal.com

MH17 inquiry grapples with Russian radar-data format

data from Russia has not been provided in [ASTERIX – Eurocontrol proprietary] format, says the prosecutor’s office. While separate software can aid the image analysis, it states, this has to be translated from Russian and then tested.

The translation and familiarisation work has been time-consuming, the office says, and only after it was completed could the radar data analysis begin, and further time and support is needed to progress with this wor

Airbus denies fraud allegations over Eurofighter Typhoon deal

The [Austrian] ministry […] issued a statement that a criminal complaint had been filed accusing Airbus and Eurofighter of “willingly and fraudulently” deceiving Austria on the “true purchase price as well as to the true ability to deliver and true specifications of the Eurofighter interceptor planes.”
[…]
“We cannot see any foundation in particular for the allegations of bad faith and fraud,” Airbus said.
[…]

“Offset deals are obviously an ideal launcher for corruption, misery and money laundering,” Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil told a news conference in Vienna, Reuters reported.

A positive outcome for the Eu industry?

Source:
DefenseNews.com

Do you realize that it’s not because it is called a sensor that it has an equate sensitivity?

Fusion is again software driven.

Fusion is NOT software driven. No matter what Saab or Dassault will tell you, Fusion is a direct legacy of your system architecture, hence driven by decisions that were taken upstream at an early stage of design with only a few possibility of retrofits.

Some confounds fusion and fused information display. Those are not the same. Although Fusion typically ends up to pilots with the latter, this is just the modern way of interfacing the results.

Fusion drives the plane design which itself interacts with the former. No matter what’s your wishes are, post implementation of fusion will lead only to a poor increase of data deepness. It is then perhaps better to decorrelate your sensor sensitivity from each other and cluster the information treatment in a more traditional way. That’s what many are doing reading b/w the lines. Only marketing fuses the process.

How the Cost of Each Version of the F-35 is Changing

F-35 Lightning II 2016 Year in Review

Smugled from the SecretProjects forum

@5:20 the C is playing again the hopping jet (on a runway)