you speak french, why dont you email thales ?
sar isnt isar

your link said its was the old rbe-2 that was tested, are you saying that has isar ?
“The report of a flight-test of Rafale B301 in F3 standard before it has formally equipped AESA radar and Spectra EWS.”

blueapple do you have the link to “F3 standards saw the addition of air-sea modes (including long-range ship tracking, at more than 100nm)”

if one of you french speakers could send an email to Thales and get it clarified on the isar and ew/ea
that will tell us what is going on

The TV channel of the the OSF make a big part of this job (with the advantage of being silent)

at a guess, the difference is good weather, daylight 40k vs 100+k all weather, day/night
why dont you read up on the use of isar

Well the datasheet says SAR modes

My humble opinion is that features will be implemented on the RBE-2AA step by step as it was the case with the pesa RBE-2.

your humble opinion sounds fair to me and probable
i think you are stretching with the “modes“

your mistake was not saying 2035-40
if the f-22 is irrelevant in 2020-25, where does that leave the gen 4’s ?

Thales is well able to design a radar with isar, given the money
the priority at this stage seems to be, to get an aesa antenna working on the rafale
there has been no mention of any function changes

swerve
they dont know what other planes have or can do
all they know is that rafale is the best because …well just because its french

i found out about gripen isar from a link off the br hammers site
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://www.defesanet.com.br/fx2/gripen_aesa.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dgripen%2Bradar%2Binverse%2Bsynthetic%2Baperture%2Bradar%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3Doos%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official&rurl=translate.google.com.au
also india say isar too
http://www.gripenindia.com/2009_10_01_archive.html

What’s your problem, Jackjack ?

The claim that we’re ahead in Europe for fighter AESA ?

you are going to be the first canard to have aesa, this doesnt make athuro’s claim that RBE-2 is better true

The unproved fact that RBE-2 AESA may miss a function not necessarily required by Rafale for his maritime function ? Same for EW ? And thus the fact that Rafale fails (???) at its omnirole capability ?

Unproved ?
dont you accept the Thales site on their aesa either, or is it like AC and a national secret
kovy used the term fighter and in a fighter role isar would mainly be used for target ID so i read, in its omni/strike role isar is more valuable, hence why i questioned it

It would be strange for you not to say ISAR would increase the rafale’s maritime surface target capability, also land and air capability when it is of value.
Thats why it is used
This runs along the lines of other things including aesa, if rafale doesnt have it, its not needed, if rafale gets it, its fantastic and better than the ones on other planes 😀

it might be best if we let arthuro choose the ISAR source, as it will then be accepted
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=isar++radar&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a