this is a political bais for american jets and maybe french…
But i have no doubt Gripen Demo will show a really good capability..
The demo program made a good progress and will be a capable player.

No bias I think they need an assured and already operational system and leave nothing to chance in the future. I have not doubt about the Gripens capabilities either, how is its AESA programme coming along ?

Well a production modell of the RBE2 AESA will not be available by april, but there is a demonstrator onboard the Rafale B301 (which has already been evaluated in the Swiss in october 08) and this demonstrator should be close enough to a production modell do give the Indias a clue of what is awaiting them.

What about the typhoon ? Its odds are struck by the revelation that the aircraft should have the desired capabilities at the time of evaluation and not the time of entry into service.

Can you plz post the whole article. i am unable to open that website.

BTW is it anywhere given that AESA is mandatory for MMRCA. Eurofighters Radar is probably the best MSA availaible, should be comparable to Bars on MKI. accepting first one or two squadrons with captor and then going for AESA is good enough.

It is rather difficult because of the nature of the media. I would have to type the whole article out, may do it later and PM you. He also clearly states the AESA is a requirement for MRCA.

It may be a bit slow on slow connections also make sure you have flash player 10 installed.

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

I have converted it to xps you can get it here.

http://rapidshare.com/files/195126251/interview.xps

you may need to download the xps viewer from here..

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/viewxps.mspx

I was talking about just that, a prototype array. Well they have a chance if they can take it for trials. I think it would be more akin to the trials EADS done with the Eurofighter AESA and not just a Demo.

To

Sintra and others…who disputed an earlier dti claim that MIG 35 AESA radar has a range of 300 Kms

DTI again claims that the detection range of MIG 35-AESA radar is near 300 kms

250-280 for a fully populated array. 140 km for the current working array.

Page 33 dti Ferbuary 2009

http://www.zinio.com/express3?issue=368748439

Also to notice that in the same issue. The ACM of the IAF, Fali H Major states this – ‘When we start evaluations, the aircraft should have what we asked for’ – note at the start of evaluations not when the stuff is delivered. This for me will rule out Gripen NG and Eurofighter as AESA is one of the stated requirements and neither have one ready at the time of evaluation. In short it points in the direction of the American Jets and Rafale.

In the same way some are warning about the muslim threat and people are not taking the warning.

Seriously man you have some problem with the community or what. There is no MUSLIM THREAT. Islamic terrorism is the threat. Both are different, saying otherwise is insulting to good muslims worldwide.