LPI radar can play with freqmod, pulse compression and adaptive power setting in order but physics is clear and sound – it only can filter out a return that is stronger than the noise. In order to achieve that, it has to send out signal even stronger than the expected return.

For analogy, consider a non-LPI radar as a man in woods wearing red jacket. An LPI radar would be the same guy wearing a black jacket. Harder to spot, especially at greater distances but still visible..

do a bit more reading, they transmitting at hash levels and are pulling the return signal out of the hash

of course it did, the corporations own the gov, brought and paid for
in usa, an honest politician is one who doesnt change his mind after he’s been paid

Yes :

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The best of impressions left to the greek pilots the performace of the Rafale’s self protection suite, confirming the french reputation in the sector since the time that HAF operated the ICMS2000 in the Mirage2000.
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The point about spectra is that despite the lack of in depth technical datas everything indicates that :

1) it performs currently very well recieving praises from foreign and french air force personnel.

2) Spectra has followed an ambitious and continuous development path with a funding level unseen for the competition (several billions euro) mainly due to its role in rafale nuclear mission which add a “strategic” value to this item. Given also French experience in the EW aera it should normally lead to a very good piece of equipment as many pilots already witness.

3) Further developments testify from a (very) ambitious roadmap and a military and political will to keep investing in this item.

i’m glad you found something you liked in the greek encounter
you obviously didnt quote the first paragraph

This time the french aircrafts also used the trainning function of Spectra, in mild jamming mode, which were immediately detected from the greek aircrafts ECCM, which reply automatically with no pilot input.

The BVR tactics used by the French didn’t impress, while they reported all virtual shots as kills.But without wanting to go into detail, observing the route of the target in relation with the lock on it, keeping time (counting) in relation with the virtual launch, the greek pilots managed to arrive to safe conclusions. This time, the majority of the greek shots were inside the “no escape” envelope of AMRAAM, which gave clear advantage to the greek side. The tactic of using data link, where 2 different radars could lock onto 4 aircrafts, taking advantage of the function that the new aircraft gives, made obvious in practice the advantages of the new F16 version. With special tactics planned by our pilots, in quite some cases, they were approaching unobserved opposite to the french aircrafts, a fact that was shown by their reactions.

The success of the greek aircrafts against the Rafale M was afterwards confirmed by comparing the shot reports of the French with the F16 videos, where it was shown that most shots were of low Pk (kill probability).

As a general conclusion, one may say that any Rafale’s superiority, in the above scenarios, is marginal, with high kill percentage for the greek side. Also it should be noted that in that period of time, the CdG was cooperating with a greek EMB-145H Erieye with the aim to evaluate the interoperability of the 2 sides. More in detail Link 11 and Link 16 were tested.

they think its marginally better than a f-16
personally i think its quite a bit better and so it should be

other than the AC which seems a common belief, you dont post rubbish like BW,
if you dont see the damage the wild claims by fanboys do to the rafale, i dont know what to tell you other than its best if the rafale guys pull them up, they might listen

“”-When the french voted defense budget gived funding for a stealth demonstrator using AC + 5T (most probably) it is not PR”””

perhaps you should reread my post, i said the new 5T sounded nice, there is no mention of AC hint or otherwise

i’ve read the articles, sweetman asked an engineer if it had pixie dust and he didnt answer, so confirming to sweetman it had pixie dust

spectra 5T for ~2020 from what i read did sound nice.
osf isnt spectra
as to the rest its non official 3rd person PR blurb unless backed up with a creditable link

djcross
sorry it replced the the f-14 score of 200 by 50% more that of 300 simply by moving from block 1 to block 11
the f-14 is just another example of something that was good in its day, it has passed
the first upgrade of the fa-18a effectivly replaced the f-14, the rest is just a bonus
F/A-18E/F Block ll = .660
F/A-18E/F Block l = .316
F/A-18A+/C/D = .193
F-14D = .195

instead of waffling, its really simple BW, post a link that the rafale has the new bragg tech