yes it is

LOL no it isnt

Can you tell me how to shift the phases, if not electronically ?

come on, the rafale active phased-array radar isnt an aeas, thats coming and neither is the spectra active phased-array jammer transmitter an aesa

link the PdF directly otherwise he will continue to put in doubt the website :rolleyes:

http://www.thalesonline.com/assets/0/249/250/b60f1f4c-7193-4de7-941a-87a6ed234789.pdf?LangType=2057
Jackjack > it is at the end of page 2

The system’s
cutting-edge defensive measures are based on combinations of omni-directional AESA
jamming, multi-band decoying and evasive manoeuvres, as well as on state-of-the-art
technologies such as Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM) signal processing.

360 deg aesa jamming isnt that its aesa, its that it can jam aesa
do you want me to send thales an email and ask for clarification?

No it was stated in an article that the ECM system uses AESA antennas, but it appears that those weren’t present from the very beginning. There was a press release about it in one of the Rafale news threads.

i’m more than happy to be corrected, but at this stage i think the author of the article is mistaken
do you have the link to the rafale news thread, or what site is it and i’ll google the phrase on it

That doesn’t mean that the content is wrong, however. But I can’t track back any single source as it is what I gat hered over many years from books, magazines, websites etc. dating back to the 90s.

so you dont have a handy source, its something you recall reading and that doesnt mean what you read was right in the first place

if anyone has a creditable link, we can put this one to bed

Look at this :

http://www.flightforum.org/index.php?topic=2164.0
http://defense-update.com/features/2008/november/rbe2aesa_rafale_081108.html

There is also a Thales brochure where it’s said that Spectra uses AESA but i can’t find the link.

Search the article “killer angels” by Bill Sweetman. I’ve checked Fox Three (issue 4) but it’s not in.

are we misunderstanding each other, rafales will get aesa radar

sorry but rwr and jammer “active array” or “smart antenna array” isnt aesa, is it
i did see the tech name of the the type of rwr sensor used from a yank forum, but it wasnt called aesa either or a have a link to verify what was claimed

do you mind if i ask for a dassault, thales etc type link instead of bill’s opinion
the only one degree reference i found so far on dassault referred to the temp control of the cockpit

Information found in Fox Three for the first time, but also published in several publications.

the 1 deg receive and transmit ?

Some of the arrays of Spectra are AESA (this is why Thales claimed that Rafale was already equiped with a 360 degrees AESA set).
You may want to look at this : http://rafale.freeforums.org/post102.html#p102
are you sure you gave me the right link, i cant see aesa mentioned on the page. only the future aesa radar
i dont think dassault has claimed that they are asea based rwr or transmit, just that they receive and able to jam aesa, but i will go and read your forum and fox 3, what number fox 3 are you referring to, there are quite a few ?
By the way, i’m not sure Dassault/Thales are the only one to claim they achieved the “under one degree” accuracy for ESM/ECM.

its quite possible, i just havent seen it written yet, i’m more than happy to have and would like to have the right info on the rafale

It’s not that i’ve no argument, but i don’t want to be labelled as an Active cancellation moron.

active cancellation does exist and if it can be used it would be the last of a long line of signal management tools, not the first and i dont believe you’re a moron
its possible a language or definition barrier with the rafale and its use with the term