Development of new intelligent sensors, autonomous flight capabilities in complex environments, but also automatic radar identification or weapon identification technologies: the specifications are dense.

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the first built in France, certainly… This AI spending frenzy smells very bad, I will tell you. Let’s finger cross for the best outcome. I fear that the most I-Attitude could be to build a wall, barring the caravans of false prophet, just to re-use some lately popular images…

Hence my first lines of code to contribute to the effort:

IA+AI=0
IA.AI=1

Shoddy post as often

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Coming from you, I take it as a good joke. Thanks for that.

Debunked: Belgian MoD did not complot around F-16 remaining service life

“Each administration does not communicate all the documents to the cabinet, explains Denis Jacqmain, researcher at Grip, Research and Information Group on Peace and Security.The cabinet is there to establish a vision, it is not theirs to do micro-management of the army.Is the army wanted to wait in a file that we know undermined, politically very difficult, where the minister has already had to repeat several truths compared to parliamentarians Did the army want to protect his minister waiting to have complete information, or even to disclose information that had no impact on the replacement of the F-16s? it will be necessary to see what are all the documents in the possession of the army to be able to answer this question “.

Source (translated from Fr. via Google Translate):
RTBF.be

No sign of Buk missile on radar display: MH17: Missile could have evaded radar detection

While no Buk missile can be detected on the Russian radar images – a fact pointed out by the Russian government, which has put forward alternative theories on the loss of MH17 – the analysis identified several reasons for its absence.
The Buk missile is capable of speeds in excess of 2,600km/h and this supersonic velocity is far beyond those typically being processed by civil aviation surveillance systems.
“Display filters could limit the visibility – this is to avoid clutter on the radar image,” the analysis adds. “The consequence is that, therefore, a Buk cannot be seen.”
Russian authorities supplied radar data in its original format as well as data converted to the standard ‘Asterix’ format. Investigators believe there is “no reason to assume” that conversion resulted in the loss of any relevant information, but the analysis nevertheless covered both data sets.
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Investigators had sought data from a second radar station, sited at Baturinskaya, but none has been supplied by the Russian government.

Source:
FlightGlobal.com

Leonardo to provide defensive aids suite for British Army Apaches

Every Apache AH-64E that comes off the production line, regardless of its end user, already has a built-in Leonardo defensive aids suite computer, known as an ‘AGP’ (Aircraft Gateway Processor). This project will see Leonardo take the U.K.’s Apache defensive aids suite a step further by integrating a number of sensors and countermeasure systems onto the AH-64E to enhance its situational awareness and survivability.
The helicopters’ sensor fit will include Leonardo’s SG200-D radar warning receiver (the U.K.-specific variant of the company’s SEER family) and will re-use a number of systems that are currently on-board the Army’s fleet of Apache AH Mk1. These re-used sensors and effectors include Leonardo’s S1223 laser warning receiver, the BAE Systems AN/AAR-57 missile approach warner and the Thales Vicon countermeasure dispensing system.
Initially these systems will be taken from spares stores and the remainder will become available when the AH Mk1s retire from service in 2023/24. This means that the British Army will experience a seamless transition to the new helicopter type with both old and new models being equipped with integrated protective suites on operations.

Source:
Vertical Mag.com

JPO launches F-35 Block 4 effort

UAE wants to acquire F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, probably as part of a mixed fleet

Brigadier General Rashed Al Shamsi, deputy commander of the UAE AF & AD, described the need to strengthen the UAE’s air capacity during a briefing at the Dubai air show, explaining that the Air Force “required connected multi-role platforms with the ability to share data, which had enhanced intelligence collection and distribution capabilities, and that was capable of timely and reactive dynamic targeting.” This, he said, meant that “to have a fifth-generation capability is something of interest to the UAE Air Force and Air Defence,” noting that he had “heard that the United States could now be willing to sell the UAE the F-35.”
The UAE Air Force and Air Defence has seen the advantages of fifth generation aircraft at first hand, training and exercising with USAF F-22As and F-35As on numerous occasions, both in the USA and in the UAE itself. It has watched as regional rivals have acquired the kind of advanced, ‘double-digit’ SAMs and integrated air defence systems that threaten the survivability of ‘conventional’ fourth generation fighters and that make Low Observable aircraft worth their weight in gold!
The UAE could use the F-35A as a powerful intelligence gathering platform, even during peacetime training missions. F-35As could also provide an invaluable deterrent against any overt Iranian aggression, since they would be able to mount limited retaliatory air strikes, without necessarily having to mount a major air campaign to take down all enemy air defences.
Staff Major General Pilot Abdullah Al Hashimi, Assistant Undersecretary for Support Services in the UAE Ministry of Defence, explained that: “We in the UAE already live in a fifth generation environment and have a fifth generation mindset; so acquiring the F-35 fighter jet is just a step forward.”
Any Emirati F-35 purchase would be limited to the purchase of two squadrons of F-35As (24 aircraft), at least in the first phase. This would require a major restructuring of the UAE AF & AD, perhaps requiring the procurement of a second aircraft type. A specialized committee is assessing the risks, threats and needs of the air force and to work out how a future fighter force might look.
The UAE has continued to consider a range of re-equipment plans, including the acquisition of advanced fourth generation fighters instead of, or augmenting F-35As. These options include the Dassault Rafale and the Eurofighter Typhoon (now in service or on order with four of the six GCC air forces). In the meantime, contracts have been placed with Lockheed Martin and Thales for upgrades to the Lockheed Martin F-16E/F Desert Falcons and Dassault Mirage 2000-9s now in service.
If negotiations are eventually successful, the United Arab Emirates would become the first GCC nation to operate a Low Observable, fifth generation combat aircraft. Though other air forces in the region hope to persuade the USA to supply F-35As, it would seem unlikely that a UAE purchase would necessarily lead to approval for other requests.

Source:
Arabian Aerospace

With a stated 50deg AoA, it will more appropriate to say “equally good” in pitch and in overall “vastly superior” (the plane keep full authority in yaw at that angle when the SH, the greatest in that domain until now, see its rudders gradually locked until being fully restricted at that angle.

50deg is the best achievable AoA of any fielded fighter b/w.