This stealth demonstrator is planned at least since 2007 in an older official document. A&C just show that it’s not been dropped.

ok, there is a topic on airdefense about that, do you have the link to the official doc or does dassalut etc have an info release about it ?
i would like to have a read about it

lol.. that F/18 is nowhere near 55°AoA more somewhere in the thirties

I made a wuick screenshot, in blue, the AoA of the hornet, and in red the 55° angle:

even if the aoa may appear slightly flattened for you’re not perfectly seeing it from the side, it’s still obvous that it’s way under 55 aoa there

i just found out i was wrong
its actually 10 deg higher than my said 35 deg for roll aoa on the 18ac
here is the 2002 fcs upgrade of rolling at 45 deg, obviously the new straight flight aoa would be higher and probably above what is commonly said at 55 deg
http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/36378/16-885JFall2003/NR/rdonlyres/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/16-885JFall2003/70D5449E-60FA-4C95-B80B-D4B19D12C222/0/sohl_mit_brief.pdf

its a shame your favorite plane is about 1/2 that

i think you should google the fa-18 sh and see what the aoa is

no, people are accused of trolling when the use 1997 of the f-22, as if its the same plane today
you dont think kkm deliberately googled negative links to present, without any attempt to see if they were valid ?

i’m a pleb too but from what i’ve read, stealth/ VLO rcs doesnt make you invisible, it just reduces the distance that you can be detected tracked and targeted, basically a radar or tactic that will find a 4th gen will find a 5th gen, it comes down to how effective and range it will do it at

MBDA is indeed developing active cancellation for missile use since the mid 90″s and it is well documented

bills article on the other hand has a lot to answer for, in my opinion he got confused with the DRFM

lets just hope its not dated 1/4/10, the A&Cosmos article will have follow up reporting and statements from the developers presenting the facts of the situation, its goal may be to handle specific spikes in rcs, as its a big ask to do a whole frame
the nuron ucav would be a platform i’d like to see the tech on too

You’re just forgetting that our engineers are idiots. They draw saw tooth every where just for fun, make cartoonistic symbologies on the screens, design counter-intuitive cockpit layouts, pretend that a fine bomber is also a top-notch air-to-air fighter, etc…

So, never try, in addition, to imply that Spectra is “magic”.

i know france is one of the worlds leaders in submarine stealth/signal management
so only an idiot would call your engineers idiots
its good that info is publicly released about ‘active stealth’ development for the rafale, i look forward to reading the facts instead of just rumors that have been around and unproven

Did you read the article by the Air Force Association that was in reponse, that rebutted those claims/criticisms?

trolls cant do that, it goes against their motives

“”You have to understand the difference between detection, and tracking(and there’s a huge difference). Detection alone doesn’t give you nearly enough information to guide a weapon.””

and a huge difference between tracking and targeting