The best way to increase your chance of survival is by being not shot at. Any Canard (Duck) Fighter shld know that.

Low level penetration is a much more dangerous approach. Not only you are at every man’s gun range (Fr Jaguar during GWI with it’s pilot hosting an Iraki bullet in his helmet), but also you have to fly through all the hazard that could be thrown at you (structure, power lines, cables, bird, weather). Read the the old Checko from the F111 initial operation during the Vietnam war. it’s very informative regarding how small things can lead quickly to a very bad situation.

The problem is that the Rafale low penetration capability is tailored around a short and very intensive war scenario (an all-out war against Warsaw Pact or a retaliation/preventive surprise strike). Sustainability and minimal footprint was not a part of the low level concept.

You don’t see Rafale doing low level penetrations, routinely, during deployment (the airbase attack in South Libya desert come to my mind as a relative exception). So comparing the stealth capability of the F35 with that of a low level raid makes no senses. You’ll certainly will not trade one for another with the full assessment of your pilots in the long term.

Notice that the above does not imply that the Raf is not a remarkable design, well rounded for the present engagements. I am only debunking the false assertion that a low level strike is the somewhat pendant à la mode de Paris of the Stealth aircraft.

Preliminary Report on the Germanwings Flight 9525 Crash

(English translation).

The report focus essentially on the thesis of dementia and the voluntary act of mass killing right from first line. It then doesn’t deviate from a iota.

Maybe you first read the disclaimer at the beginning of this publication and then learn the difference between ESM & ECM.

Wiki:

ELINT and ESM[edit]
Electronic Support Measures (ESM) are really ELINT techniques, but the term is used in the specific context of tactical warfare. ESM give the information needed for Electronic Attack (EA) such as jamming. EA is also called Electronic Counter-Measures. ESM provides information needed for Electronic Counter-Counter Measures (ECCM), such as understanding a spoofing or jamming mode so one can change one’s radar characteristics to avoid them.

Be my guest.

+1

A fascinating doc and a fantastic pedagogical material to sweep away dogmas and unicorns.

An extract related to a recent discussion around CAPTOR and ESM:

In terms of sensors, the CAPTOR-M radar currently mounted on the
Eurofighter is widely recognised as one of the most powerful and precise
of its kind. It can be used to detect and track targets at ranges of over
100 nautical miles. However, AESA types outclass it in terms of multiple
simultaneous target tracking, high resolution SAR mapping, low probability of
hostile intercept and electronic-attack capabilities. Therefore, the CAPTOR-E
AESA radar is being integrated into the platform as a priority agreed by all
partner states in November 2014.7
This new radar offers a very wide field of
regard compared to standard fixed-plate arrays and will offer improvements
in range, tracking resolution and fidelity, stealth, tactical options, electronic
attack and ground mapping over the current CAPTOR-M. Since almost all
modern combat aircraft carry radar warning receivers to detect hostile radar
signals, passive operation is an important capability for the Eurofighter. To
this end, and to provide a limited stealth-detection capability, the Eurofighter
is equipped with a powerful IRST scanner called PIRATE, except in Luftwaffe
service. This is entirely passive in operation, producing no emissions which
could be detected by hostile threats. Due to the fact that PIRATE works by
detecting the heat generated on an aircraft’s skin by air friction – rather
than radar returns – it also offers significant potential capabilities against
low-observable (LO) aircraft.8
However, due to funding priorities and the fact
that the Luftwaffe does not use it, it is only in the past two years that the
sensor has started to move towards an operationally useful level of capability.
Prior to this, shortages of spare parts and immature software – which was
incapable of dealing with the sheer number of false positives inherently
generated by such a sensitive sensor – hampered its operational use. Since
PIRATE operates in the infrared (IR) region, it must be used in conjunction with
other sensors to allow kinetic engagements of targets substantially BVR using
missiles such as the AMRAAM and Meteor that use radar to track targets.9
Italy has made some progress with PIRATE/CAPTOR sensor fusion, but this
is still a work in progress. The UK’s version of CAPTOR-E (Radar 2 Extended
Assessment Phase) is being developed to take advantage of some of this work
and build on it to incorporate inputs from PIRATE and the DASS much more
than the current sensor suite centred on CAPTOR-M.10 BVR armament is the
AIM-120C AMRAAM radar-guided missile and this will soon be boosted by the
much longer-ranged Meteor with full two-way datalink allowing midcourse
guidance updates. The two-way datalink (not available for the Rafale due
to platform limitations) is crucial for realising the full performance of the
missile, in particular for expanding the no-escape zone given the long flight
time and potential for significant target course changes at long range.

Notice that each partner nation are going their own way for the Avionics suite.

Source:
see above link

Good link!

But don’t forget the following sentence:

Currently, upgrades to the DASS in this area are scheduled for the universal P4E software block, which is due in service around 2020.

Although the Typhoon prog has never out-marked itself as being reliable with the schedules, an in service date of 2020 is tommorrow. At that time Dassault’s customers will slowly begin to receive their aircraft (something like half number for Egypt and early delivery for Qatar) – .

So if it it is true that the Raf stands for its ESM capabilities in regards of the Eu Canards, the slower production tempo tends to cancel that advantage (ECM and cyber are a highly dynamic competitive range) .

Source (same link as above):
https://www.rusi.org/downloads/assets/WHR_1-15_Maximising_European_Combat_Air_Power.pdf

No.
Avionic suites were similar in early version (that say a lot about how good it was for its time). Commonality have then been reduced with new Blocks and upgrades.